Yesterday I was once again on the Peter Boyles Show on KNUS Denver for a full hour, discussing various aspects of the situation in Iraq. It was a wide-ranging and engrossing discussion.
Yesterday I was once again on the Peter Boyles Show on KNUS Denver for a full hour, discussing various aspects of the situation in Iraq. It was a wide-ranging and engrossing discussion.
nacazo says
On the arab revolt, the British were using both the Sauds and the Hashemites against the Ottomans but the Hashemites did most of the fighting and were not Wahhabbi as the Sauds. Eventually the Hashemites lost the Hijaz in the Arabian peninsula to the Wahabbi Sauds but the British gave the Hashemites power in Iraq and Jordan. The Hashemites are not Wahabbi but they are Islamic enough to support Jihad when convenient and claim to descend from the pedophile.
nacazo says
On the Iraq-Iran war, After khomeini consolidated power in Iran, he started trouble in Iraq with assassination attempts and the like. Saddam Hussein went on the offensive and invaded the Arabic speaking south Iran. Iran was able to dislodge Saddam from South Iran with the human suicide wave tactics and other jewels of Islamic war tactics but yes eventually it ended in a stalemate basically back to square one. khomeini famously said that accepting ti end the war was to him like drinking poison.
onisac says
A greater problem is ‘has any of this accomplished anything positive’? These are not military people of any nation. So it’s really criminal acts across the world. The U.S. military has been used as middle eastern policemen,
who have no legal authority to be any nations policemen, much less the proper training. The U.S. military doesn’t even speak Arabic. So how does that work?
It amounts to using a rifle do your talking, in a nation that has no firm civil laws.
Some would say sharia is there law. Really, then when did the citizens of these nation vote for Sharia Law?
If anyone can tell me what good we’ve done over there please say what it was. or is.