US wars have resulted in Fallujah, Mosul and Tikrit falling into the hands of Islamic militants. How's that war on terror working out? When you kill hundreds of thousands of people who never did anything to their aggressor, especially people who identify with each other and against their aggressor, their survivors get angry and respond.
Reports from Iraq keep getting worse. 500,000 flee Mosul.
"Sunni insurgents advancing on Baghdad after taking Mosul have captured the city of Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein, as government forces disintegrate and fail to offer resistance. Iraqi soldiers and police are reported to have discarded their uniforms, changed into civilian clothes and fled after firing only a few shots.Apparently eight years of training by US troops produces nothing. Mass beheadings reported.
The offensive led by the fundamentalist Islamist group Isis appears to be turning into a general uprising by Iraq’s Sunni Arab community that lost power when Iraq was invaded by the US and its allies in 2003. Militants from Isis have taken the refinery town of Baiji on the Tigris, which is also the site of a power station supplying Baghdad. Some 250 guards protecting the refinery withdrew after militant fighters asked local sheikhs by mobile phone to tell them to pull out or face a fight to the death."
US caught off guard. How can this be?
Russian bombers fly within 50 miles of California coast. Thanks, Obama.
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