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RE: Mosul
August 16, 2016 at 9:10 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2016 at 9:12 pm by abaris.)
Yeah, right now they're on the defensive everywhere. Which is good. Even more so since there's no hero or martyr story to be woven. It's been done by fellow muslim forces, which is the only approach making sense. Any western force would open all kinds of cans of wirms.
The fight against ISIL is also the only fight where the traditional army approach makes sense, since it is kind of a state to be deafeated and brought to it's knees.
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RE: Mosul
August 17, 2016 at 12:25 pm
They got too big for their britches!
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RE: Mosul
August 22, 2016 at 2:14 pm
I support the Kurds 100%. Probably the only group left in the ME worth supporting (or who haven't been entirely genocided).