Mission Accomplished!

[Anomalocaris]

Maliki is the reason we are not still there. He refuse to sign the agreement to keep US Troops there. He is now begging for USA to come back.

Training Afghanis.

These people are very very very very uneducated.

Watch:




They refuse to learn anything outside of the Koran.

He most likely lived this long and has the breath to ask for the US to come back because he kicked the US out in the first place. He could see his enemies could assassinate American agents inside the most heavily protected cores of American green zone in Iraq. What chance did he have if he was seen too overtly being in America's pocket.

If he agreed to US staying, he would probably be dead within a few days.

The US really is and always has been totally out of its league wherever there is real intrigue and complex problem requiring nonlinear approach.

[Minimalist]

These people are very very very very uneducated.

Same with xtians.

[Dragonetti]

If Maliki made an agreement with USA, he would have lost the elections.

The religious side was playing a major roll in getting USA out of there.

The Iraqi government was in a better position, than the Afghani Government. They could at least read and write.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Follow up - and to be expected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/world/...ss&emc=rss

The insurgent fighters who routed the Iraqi army out of Mosul on Tuesday did not just capture much of Iraq’s second-largest city. They also gained a windfall of arms, munitions and equipment abandoned by the soldiers as they fled — arms that were supplied by the United States and intended to give the troops an edge over the insurgents.

The problem is not a new one, but it looms larger now that the United States is shifting its counterterrorism strategy away from using American armed forces directly, and toward relying on allied or indigenous troops and security forces supplied and trained by the United States. President Obama proposed last week that a $5 billion fund be set up to finance such efforts.

All the more reason for isolationism. God-damn, I'm tired of us exporting "democracy".

[Ravenshire]

Yeah, and Obama almost made the same blunder by wading into Syria to topple Assad.

When are we going to learn we are not blessed in the arab world, and bloody murderous dictators are the friends we need and the only friends we can ever have there?

[emphasis is mine]

You think we would have learned from watching the Soviets flail around in Afghanistan all those years ago. Nope. We've got to go make the same stupid fucking mistakes, then spread it around a little.

Anyone taking bets that we'll be back there before too long. Gotta protect that oil. After all, we couldn't fund some killer solar projects for less than these fucking wars have cost us!

[Minimalist]

When it comes to some slimebag politician fooling the American public I would never bet against it.

Way too many tea bagging morons out there.

[Anomalocaris]

Speaking of which, Eric cantor just lost the primaries to a Tea bag.

It looks like the republican dream of a minimum of fratricide before Midterm election just went up in smoke.

[Minimalist]

Apparently even a turd like Cantor isn't bad enough for republicunt primary voters!

[Minimalist]

More news from the front...

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2014061...d7ac6.html

BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida-inspired militants seized effective control Wednesday of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, expanding their offensive closer to the Iraqi capital as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts following clashes with the insurgents.

Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control a day earlier of much of Mosul, the country's second-largest city, in a major blow to the authority of the country's Shiite government and a sign of Iraq's reversals since U.S. forces withdrew in late 2011.

It appears that the Shi'ites can't fight for Shi't.

[Chas]

Follow up - and to be expected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/world/...ss&emc=rss

All the more reason for isolationism. God-damn, I'm tired of us exporting "democracy".

Especially as we seem to be running out of it here.