4,000 Shi’ite militia sent to Ramadi
The Washington Times reports that 4000 Shi’ite volunteers are being airlifted to the Iraqi city of Ramadi to help the government troops there battle Sunni insurgents of the Islamic Nation;
The vast majority of volunteers are Shiites who have answered a call from the country’s top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to defend Iraq from the militants who have overrun of much of the country’s north and west over the past month. The Sunni militant blitz is led by the Islamic State extremist group, which has unilaterally declared the establishment of an Islamic state ruled by Shariah law in the territory it controls straddling the Iraq-Syria border.
The government’s reliance on Shiite militias — who have deployed in sizeable numbers to several cities across the country — to help counter the threat from Sunni militants has ramped up sectarian tensions, and helped fuel fears that Iraq could return to the wholesale sectarian bloodletting that engulfed the country in 2006 and 2007.
Well, if it wasn’t a civil war before now, it will become one soon enough. But then that’s what they want at the ISIS or ISIL or the Islamic Caliphate or what ever it is today.
Category: Politics
Well, if they are busy killing each other maybe they will leave the rest of the world alone.
Precisely. I couldn’t be more pleased that the major flavors of Islam are going at one another. I love the terms rebels, militants, and the like. There are no good guys. There are only assholes hell bent on killing one another. For me, it’s rather like druggies killing one another off in American cities. People can pretend they actually give a shit but no one does.
Without the iron fist of Saddam, the three tribes are free to exercise their absolute distrust of each other to whatever violent extreme currently suits their fancy.
Let them have whatever they are willing to fight and die for. The new Caliph and his forces are willing to fight and die for a nation under Sharia Law. Id the Iraqi Army and “freedom loving, peaceful Muslims”, whoever and wherever they are, are willing to fight and die for their cause, then it is up to them. No more American lives for Iraq. We’ve done all we can do for them. You can train till the cows come home and leave them with the finest equipment. You cannot instill or train into a man’s heart, courage or the will to fight and die for his country. Muslims, whatever their flavor, do not practice or like freedom of religion. Not amongst themselves even, much less any other religion. If you told all factions right now that the new plan was to unite to wipe out Israel…they would be hugging one another as Muslim brothers, firing off their AKs in the air and headed west, arm in arm. Evacuate our Embassy and all citizens and let them have at it. But use our air power to keep them in their own borders.
Surely you mean let them have the smoking, glowing, glazed crater where the embassy used to be after we pull out and take appropriate measures to leave no US property behind.
The Other Whitey…Roger That.
ISIS could be an actual threat outside the ME, so I’m rooting for Shi’ites in this one. Give my regards to Camp Ramadi, gents!
The Sunnis all already kiiling each other. 12 Bodies were found NE of BAIP due to infighting between Saddam Loyalist and ISIS.
Oh that CRAZY RAMADI.
They could sure dance though.
Every time I see a headline like this one, I think “Quick! What’s 72 times 4000?”
GDContractor – are there that many virgins left?? Might need to order up a fresh truck load of goats instead…