About 1000 ISIS fighters attacked Mosul which was defended by 30,000 strong Iraqi Army. They turned their tails and fled. There was hardly any resistance. Reason: Current Iraqi Army is all trained and established by US Army. They have placed their puppets in commanding positions. They do what they are told to do.
They were told to flee, so, they did. Same is not true for the capital, Nuri-al-Maliki who himself is a Shia, can clearly see an extremist Sunni? army marching towards him. He will definitely try to employ - and that is questionable - his most loyal forces who will be Shia.
Their leading cadre we're all Sunnis, and when those defected, the command structure collapsed.
I call bollocks on 1000 fighters. You can't control an area that size and fight government forces at multiple locations with 1000 men. This is a ludicrous proposition.
Also, when the ISIS reaches the Shia Strongholds, there will be strong resistance, plus Ayatollah Sistani has issued a fatwa to the Shia to arm themselves.
Ya, i never said there won't be. Through my post it is even implied Shia's will never be driven out of southeastern and eastern Iraq
This ISIS may just be a ploy to get US bases back in Iraq.
They hardly need bases in Iraq, they have bases all around the region.
If you are pointing at what's next? i.e. Iran or Pakistan - you are only delusional. Iraqi army was fragmented with no internal support using technologies from 70s when 'Operation Desert Storm' occured.
What has operation Desert Storm have to do with anything?
And no, in my post to you i wasn't implying anything in regards to Pakistan or Iran. I was implying Kurds already made a deal with ISIS, because this is what suits them best.
Namely, if the central government in Baghdad is weak or powerless, it cannot whine about the oil Kurdistan exports on its own accord to it's own customers.
Iranians are united as a nation - and they have an assertive Russia backing them.
Pakistanis are united as a nation - and they have an all weather friend (China) backing them, not to forget the Nukes.
This is laughable. The enemy won't be the kind you will be able to point nukes at. They are already in the system. But + points for patriotism.
Assertive Russia, you mean the one who denied sale of S-300 a few years ago, and who loves the current state of embargo on Iran because it helps keep prices artificially high propping up their outdated economy?
As for breaking-up Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the staunchest (and most black-mailed) ally of USA, is strictly against any re-defining of the borders. It knows that if any Middle Eastern country is allowed to Balkanise, Saudi Arabia can be next.
lol, note how you contradict yourself in this paragraph and the one below. Here you say Americans are against the redrawing of any borders, but down below you imply they will bomb a despot down from his throne, which can only bring partition of Syria and consequentially, a redrawing of maps along ethnic/sectarian lines.
Did you forget, just a few months ago, Americans were only days away from attacking Syria; then Putin happened. He can happen again and again. Things are not going to be easy for the Empire.
No, the US Congress happened, and European allies happened, denying support for air strikes.
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Writing in bold doesn't make statements any more true. It only makes you look silly, when you bold such naive stuff.
But i know, mix of patriotism, blind hope and not being educated on at least basics of geopolitics.....and we have what we have, you saying the leaked map failed on all accounts, when there's already two entities alive from that very same Pentagon map
(Sunni Iraq and Kurdistan) on today's real world map.