Report from NBC’s Richard Engel, who is in Northern Iraq doesn’t sound good. Iraqi Army in no better shape than before it collapsed, new Iraqi government just a reshuffle of the same characters, nobody on the ground in Syria, ISIS once again on the edge of Baghdad. Our strategy not working.
ENGEL:
There are enormous contradictions in the U.S. strategy that are becoming more apparent every day. Let’s start with Iraq. Even though this is really one conflict that has no border between it, we are artificially putting this border between Iraq and Syria because ISIS is on both sides. But let’s start with Iraq.
The Iraqi army is in no better shape now than it was when it collapsed. The new Iraqi government is not instilling confidence in the people. It is not instilling confidence in the armed forces. The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army, only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons.
So it is completely unrealistic to think that now, with a little bit of outside help and a lot of American good will, that the army is going to fundamentally change and the Iraqi government, which is really just a reshuffle of the same characters, is going to fundamentally change and suddenly inspire the Iraqi people
Wild Thing’s comment………….
Interesting how so many now in the news media are not holding back on criticizing Obama.
“RETREAT!!!” – Caesar Obola 2014