No one culda saw that one coming
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 2:01pmEarlier this week a U.S. serviceman died in Iraq via an IED for the first time in several years.
Then this morning I saw this.
Earlier this week a U.S. serviceman died in Iraq via an IED for the first time in several years.
Then this morning I saw this.
This will be a really short Essay, but I think it's a question which needs to be answered.
Has anyone else around here noticed that every time the clause "The State is Indivisible" or equivalent appears in any country's Constitution, that country has a chunk of its land and people who emphatically do NOT want to be part of it?
BREAKING: Russian warplanes bombing #SDF positions in the recently captured Koniko oil field area east of Deir ez-Zor. via @hawarnews
— Aylina Kılıç (@AylinaKilic) September 25, 2017
The Kurds of Iraq are about to vote for independence and Baghdad is not happy.
Reporter: "President Trump, are you going to kill every man, woman and child in North Korea?"
Trump: "We'll see."
It doesn't get much attention in the U.S. press, but Iraq has managed to solve their prison population problem - they don't take prisoners.
First, the good news.
The destruction of ISIS has given Iran the one thing they have always dreamed of - the Shia Crescent becoming a political fact. Maybe more.