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Tag Archives: Shia
Kunduz and the Failure of Air Power
Video War – the destroyed target is a “bug splat”. A few days ago American air power blasted a hospital in Kunduz after fourteen years of warfare in Afghanistan. Fourteen years. Turns out, as everyone knows by now, to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, air raid, civilian casualties, current events, doctors without borders, insurgencies, kunduz, military failure, Saudi Arabia, Shia, Sunni, syria, war crime, Yemen
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Should I Care?
Kunduz Yesterday while browsing the “news” between college football games I saw the Huffpo headline: “Afghanistan Falling to Taliban!” Seems the Taliban had taken the Afghan “city” of Kunduz and was immediately attacked by government forces trying to push them … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, civil war, conscription, Iran, Iraq, isis, russia, Saudia Arabia, Shia, Should I care?, Sunn, syria, war is for other people
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ISIL and Sykes-Picot
Fat Chance Several months ago, ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, announced it’s intention to do away with the borders of the modern Middle-East. It already controls territory spanning the “border” between Iraq and Syria. “Levant”, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Gulf states, Iraq, ISIL, isis, Islamic State, Jordan, Kurdistan, Kurds, Lebanon, national borders, Ottoman state, Ottomans, Palestine, Saoudi Arabia, Sauds, Shia, Sunni, Sykes Picot Agreement, syria, Trans-Jordan, Treaty of Lausanne, upcoming war, Versailles, Wahabists, world war II
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Return of the Abbasid
And so yesterday the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham committed another barbarity. A captured American journalist, Steven Sotloff was beheaded on camera as a “message” to America. Presumably this atrocity was ordered by Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi, self-styled “Caliph … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbasids, Al Bagdadi, beheading, caliph, caliphate, isis, Islamic State, Kurd, Mongols, Mosul, Osama Bin Laden, Ottomans, Raqqa, Saudi royals, Shia, Steven Sotloff, Sunni, Umayyads, Wahabis
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And What About Syria?
So with ISIS on the scene (Islamic State of Iraq and SYRIA) why is no one talking of Syria? Is Syria not also under attack by ISIS extremists? Yes, I know Bashir el-Assad is a villain right up there with … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashir Assad, civil war, Ghadaffi, insurgency, Iraq, isis, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, lesser of two evils, Libya, Nouri al-Maliki, Saudi Arabia, Shia, Sunni, syria, Wahabists
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The Iraq War is Over! Did We Win??
(I originally posted this piece in October 2011. Geez I’m smart!) Ok. President Obama announced the the Iraq War is now officially over and our troops will be home for the holidays. Did we “win”? We did get … Continue reading
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Tagged "winning the war", Bathists, civil war, dismemberment, Hashemite King, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi Monarchy, Kurd, Lebanon, Ottomans, Palestine Mandate, Shia, Sunni, Sykes-Picot Treaty, syria, world war I
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Wasting Lives and Making Enemies
Mosul So yesterday it was reported that “insurgents” in Iraq had seized control of Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city. They had already occupied Ramadi and Fallujah, two places where Americans died ousting the “insurgents” in the first place. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Alawite, casualties, destabilization, exceptionalism, Gulf states, insurgent financing, Iraq, Libya, lost wars, Mosul, new enemies, Saudia Arabia, Shia, Somalia, Sunni, unwinable wars, war cost, Yemen
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