Ramadi

[Anomalocaris]

Iraq is a fake bullshit country that was made up by the British post WWI. The people there associate as Shia, Sunni or Kurds and nobody is willing to fight for Iraq.

How many countries didn't start out by some foreign or domestic despot faked it by hold disparate elements together by force, until the fake became to long established by custom that it seem more real than real and everyone though the country is so natural it was handed down in its current format by some deity?

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I think they're volunteering for a steady three meals a day, and don't give much of a shit about anything else.

I say we let Iran handle it. They stand to lose the most, they stand to gain little (because they already have an immense amount of influence on the Iraqi government), and it is usually wise statecraft to let one's enemies tire themselves against each other.

No, they volunteered to be thugs and racketeers backed by a government.   Not to fight where the other side shoots back.

This is possibly the first army in history that enjoyed vast superiority in equipment, total air supremacy, and a 40:1 numerical advantage on the ground, and still lost.

It's like the entire marine corp being defeated by the army of the 

There is something perverse about giving such an army 8 billion dollars of equipment.