/begin cite I know the reasons why the army collapsed, Maliki said. But now is not the time to point the blame to whoever ordered the army to fall back. Even if its a ploy, the generals who are responsible must be held accountable. A conspiracy has led Isis to occupy Mosul. Whoever is responsible will not get away with that they did. /end cite I dont even know what to say. Its not time to point fingers, but people will be held accountable? Hows that work?? /begin cite Hamad al-Mutlaq, a member of the Iraqi parliaments defence committee, said: Im convinced that what happened in Mosul is deliberate negligence or there is an agreement between the parties because its impossible for an army to be unable to stand up to a group made up of hundreds of men. /end cite Indeed.Theres really nothing else to say, but al-Mutlaqs comments make al-Malikis seem untenable: how are you going to hold the generals responsible, given that the army is in this bad of a state? It seems clear that al-Maliki has lost control of the military entirely, so its difficult to see how hes going to bend them to his authority now. /begin cite Not all Mosul residents condemned the Isis rout. Ali Aziz, 35, a humanitarian worker, said: We got statements by them confirming that they wont cause harm to anyone and all the minorities will be protected by them. They are really welcomed and we are so happy to have them rather than having Malikis bloody, brutal forces. I feel we have been liberated of an awful nightmare that was suffocating us for 11 years. The army and the police never stopped arresting, detaining and killing people, let alone the bribes they were taken from the detainees families. Me and my neighbours are waiting for the news that the other six Sunni protesting provinces falling in the hand of the Isis fighters to declare our Sunni region like the three provinces in Kurdistan. /end cite If these last few paragraphs alone arent enough evidence that the entire U.S. strategy in Iraq was a dismal failure, I dont know what more to say. Thanx, Bush administration, for breaking this country to begin with; thanks, L Paul Bremer, for your utterly incompetent decision to entirely de-Baathisize the nation in a misguided effort to remake its military & police forces. But, of course, thanks to the increasingly *worthless* American ME-dia, the current GOP charges that all of this is OBAMAS fault (somehow, anyhow, who knows how, but damn it praise the Lord & pass the blame ammunition!!!) will likely be accepted happily by legions of imbecile Americans who dont pay attention at all to the news or anything else of importance.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:40:12 +0000
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