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If Syria had a secular dictator in place, none of this would have happened.

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he. Looks like Iran and Saudi Arabia are one of the most helpful nations to curtail ISIL; whereas US is only interested in working with East and South East Asian nations to prevent China from expanding. So much for telling the world that we are a global force for peace. We destroy Iraq, rebuild it the American way, and watch it crumble and consume itself as well as regions surrounding Iraq and do nothing. And now we're planning to focus 60% of our forces to Asia to prevent China from expanding. I feel like I am taking crazy pills. What has our nation become? we were a country founded to the face of preventing tyranny and expanding freedom. Yet now we look at Iraq and say "Hey buddy, you lack the will to fight. This isn't our problem anymore. Go clean up your own mess". yeah. go clean up your own mess. lol hilarious how our leaders say that without blinking and thinking the world think its our mess not theirs.

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I'm sure the Syrians are relieved Iraqi forces are coming to save them.

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I think along with;

Thousands of Iranian and Iraqi fighters, pro-government militias,

a coalition of opposition forces including al-Qaida affiliate Al-Nusra Front, an alliance of rebel groups including Al-Nusra, and to the Islamic State jihadist group. rebels or jihadists.

this article could have mentioned that the Iranians and Iraqis are Shia and the "opposition forces" are Sunni.

The article makes it out as an intranational conflict where in fact it is and always has been a sectarian war.

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The Russians are siding with the Syrian government.

Yup. From the word go when Assad was shooting unarmed protesters. Back when you were claiming the insurgents were Blackwater mercenaires. How your tales have morphed....

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6 days to 10/06

:)

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SuperLib: "If Syria had a secular dictator in place, none of this would have happened."

Har! But just in case you're not joking, Super, Syria HAS a secular dictator in place.

What are Iraqi fighters doing in Syria when they still haven't retaken Ramadi?

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What are Iraqi fighters doing in Syria when they still haven't retaken Ramadi?

Ramadi is Sunni; Damascus is Shia. The Iraqi and Iranian governments are content in allowing the ISIS to run roughshod over Sunni territory. What we are seeing here is the reinforcement of the Shia Crescent - again, not a bad thing, but I sincerely hope that the US does not try to stand in their way.

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but I sincerely hope that the US does not try to stand in their way.

Yep. If all they want is an endless war against their religious enemy, there's not much the US can do.

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Iran , Iraq are contributing fighters , i didn't see any of them doing that ....with the exception of syrian arab army , iraq and iran is not lifting any finger toward ISIS , Double-talk snake only

After all , Ahmed al chalabi was a sunni -shiite faction enhanced by iran and egypt

UN is useless organization over centuries countries contribute money for enhancing peace and order and people insist on dreampipe request , Ban ki moon is useless ,

Perhaps we could shut down the UN and let them sort it out +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The agency cautioned however that it “takes no responsibility for the information.”

As I except , some amateur western journalist guys are reporting , I am seeing from the satellite cockroaches there and there , trying to hide in tunnel network , the graph in my CPU quite amazing

Endless wars ?

Huh ,,, no such war , Wars means million of war belligerent are dead and i can't see any of those warmonger sheikh ( kings ) are slaughtered so war definition is not present

Managing the middle east , Actually no one can do it more than those mess creator ,,, most of them are from this area so who can manage it people from the same area

it will take millions of blood before they can evolve , they can't evolve without those requirement .. you can feed them or can buy them a house but buying wisdom comes from the horror of the war which is not present , 14~20 million before they can evolve not less than that

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there's not much the US can do.

Actually there's a lot the US can do. But the "unthinkable" wouldn't look so nice in the rest of the worlds view.

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crouching$amuraiHiddenNinja

ahahahaa you are very funny , Saudi arabia is confronting ISIS , most of ISIS are saudi and arab fighters really you gotta be joking

obligation!!!!!!!! , lol you mean 10 million troop stationing for 50 yrs and causalities be there

it is gonna take many blood to convince them that this is not the way of life

10~20 million should be sacrificed they are afraid to do it but they won't be a developed country unless they do it nobody is gonna do that for them .... they are alone on that it is not a choice

they are wandering around the world like a medieval guy travelling in the 21th century where he can't figure why things are going like that

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This is time of reckoning. We plough into Iraq over vague ideas that Saddam holds weapons of mass destruction & training grounds for Al Qaida. We destroyed homes, livelihoods, infrastructures, businesses, economies, families, and their national economy. And we tell the world that we achieved mission accomplish against terrorism. Young Servicemen and women were sacraficed by President Bush and his supporters to invade, fight, and become casualties, while we tax payers just deal with the paycheck. Now ten years later, our economy is still in a mess from the trillions of dollars we have spent. We complain and treat the local Iraqi government and their soldiers like their incompetent, lazy, and "lack the will to fight", while we blindly ignore the fact that we destroyed their homes, caused internal warfare between diverse ethnic and religious groups, and through their jobs out the window. We now are broke and we ourselves "lack the will" to complete our committment to Iraq. The whole world is watching and understands that now we are liars when we say are a global force for peace and a global force to combat terrorism and help nations combat terrorism.

And now we are trying to focus more attention on China instead of dealing with this problem. We are promoting the vague idea that China is a force that threatens global peace, as well as promoting that they are behind all the most crucial cyber attacks. What a world we live in. ISIL wil continue to advance and march and destroy while we're busy focusing on the next country to fight. There will be a reckoning. We have sinned for the needless deaths of innocent people, and we as a country will receive punishment for our actions.

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