Iraq

What is going on in Iraq at the moment was predictable over ten years ago.

When any force changes the dynamic of the political norm, whether that norm is a dictatorial or not, doesn’t matter. The insert of any change into a population of diverse religious and political beliefs will always destabilize what is conceived as the norm. The Ukraine is a current example.

The United States has a public and stated quest fostering democracy within other cultures. We also have a hidden reason of aggrandizing our military industrial complex.

Like it or not we are a bellicose nation. Our budgets, priorities and common sense prove it, as does our history. There is, however, history to justify the America’s political thinking: World War Two and Korea were nobler than the contrived conflict in Vietnam. The national problem there was that our warriors received the insult, not the politicians.

And there will always be those, internally and externally, who will facilitate the destabilization of any conflict for nefarious and malicious reasons. Enter the Taliban or any religious or political fanatic.

The current assault by Sunni ICIS forces in Iraq was not an instantaneous incitement. It had to have been long planned militarily and it is so far executed with success.

America’s dilemma is that we haven’t had nor do we have now reliable intelligence on the ground.

Should America get re-involved in Iraq no matter what?

I don’t think so for one reason only: The nearly four and half thousand Americans who have already given their lives for Iraq.

To me the American trained Iraqi troops who discarded their uniforms and weapons and fled do not deserve any more American lives.