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 --
First rule of getting involved in a clusterf*k:
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.
"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
Don't we wish we *could* go back to Day One
Tuomo with The Latebirds — Day One
"...People of Damascus rally round Bashar al-Assad" — April 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10770311/Syri...
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