Our allies in War on ISIS prefer Russia over U.S.

We appear to be reaching the "Thanks but no thanks" moment in our relationship with Iraq.

(Reuters) - Iraq may request Russian airstrikes against Islamic State on its soil soon and wants Moscow to have a bigger role than the United States in the war against the militant group, the head of parliament's defense and security committee said on Wednesday....
"We are seeking to see Russia have a bigger role in Iraq. ... Yes, definitely a bigger role than the Americans," Zamili said.

Well, that's a fine How-do-you-do! Talk about ungrateful!
We spend trillions of dollars destroying their country and killing their people for decades and they don't even bother to break up with us before dating someone else.

At least we still have the Kurds.

But there were signs that U.S. influence over events in Syria was eroding, with the Kurdish militia that has been Washington’s closest ally on the ground there extending a public welcome to Russia and offering to fight alongside Russia against the Islamic State. It also asked Moscow for weapons.
“We want Russia to provide us air support as well as weapons in our fight against the ISIL militants,” a YPG commander, Sipan Hemo, was quoted as telling the Russian Sputnik news portal. “We can organize an effective cooperation with Russia on the issue.”

Et tu, Kurds?
Oh sure, we sided with Turkey when they decided to go to war with you, and we have a very long history of betraying you, but we are best buds!

Looks like Iraq and the Kurds are "over us", Assad was never into us, and Iran is firmly in the pro-Russia camp.

Putin walked into the room and every single anti-ISIS group in the region that has actual forces on the ground just swooned.

If only Putin would have waited another four years, I'm sure we would have defeated ISIS by then.

Well, at least we still have Turkey, which has openly supported jihadists in Syria, and that ISIS considers an ally.
Our Saudis allies want a jihad in Syria against Assad and Russia. Gee, I wonder which one of our "moderate allies" in Syria are the Saudis thinking of waging jihad?
Plus, UAE, which helped start ISIS, and which Biden called out, is defeating al-Qaeda's enemy in Yemen.

Meanwhile, Congress has still not approved the AUMF. They haven't even voted on it.
Very belatedly, Senator Kaine (D) is questioning the legality of this war.
Some have even suggested that this was should be considered illegal because unlike Russia, our airstrikes were never approved by the host nation.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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Don't Get Involved In A Clusterf*k!!!!

Then again, we (meaning the US government) kinda started this mess, didn't we?

So, I guess we sorta got involved in this clusterf*k Day One.

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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon

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Tuomo with The Latebirds — Day One

Take me back to day one
Take me back to the birth of the Sun
There was no war to be won
There was no wrong to be undone
Back when I first opened up my eyes
Take me back to my first cries
Back to the truth before the lies
Take me back to day one
To day one

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10770311/Syri...

Nevertheless, I do think the words of my shopkeeper friend are worth pondering. If the insurgents who killed his mother win the war, there will be no Christian churches in Syria any more (just as there aren’t in Saudi Arabia at the moment). Life will be similarly terrible for many of the ordinary Muslims who make up the great majority of the population.

There are no “good guys” in Syria’s civil war. But we should not be blind to the fact that there is a project out there to destroy its rich, pluralist and unbelievably intricate culture and replace it with a monochrome version of Wahhabi Islam, of the kind favoured by Saudi mullahs. And for reasons that history may come to judge very severely, Britain, the United States, and the West have been aiding and abetting this project.

Rediscovered via Chris Floyd (the full name of the blog is "Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the American Imperium")
Road to Damascus: an odd quack of truth from The Telegraph

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