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Petraeus: U.S. Must Not Become the Shia Militia's Air Force
The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq warned against getting embroiled in a long-running religious battle and noted Baghdad's government needed to be seen as fair by all Iraqis.
LONDON, England David Petraeus, the former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, has issued a stark warning to those advocating U.S. military intervention against ISIS militias bearing down on Baghdad.
The architect of the successful surge strategy that helped to quell the last great outbreak of sectarian violence in Iraq almost a decade ago said there was a great risk that the U.S. would be seen as picking sides in a religious battle that has been waged for generations.
The former head of the CIA and one of the most highly respected generals in modern U.S. warfare said it was only wise to offer military support if the political conditions were exactly right in Iraq, a scenario that is virtually impossible to imagine in the near-future. This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight, he said.
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The surge in Iraq, the surge that mattered most was not the surge in forces it was the surge of ideas that changed our strategy, he said. You cannot have 18 to 20 percent of the population feeling disenfranchised; feeling that it has no stake in the success of the country, in fact it has a stake in the failure of Iraq. Of course we reached out to the Sunni Arabs.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/18/petraeus-u-s-must-not-become-the-shia-militia-s-air-force.html
McCain has been whining all over TV that Obama must send him back to fix things and re-win the war we already won
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I saw some humor in reading the OP. A turn about joke on McShame. The exaggeration of his big fat lying demented head exploding as a repudiation for all his ranting about war.
Why I must explain the nature of my humor is surprising to me,since simply saw the humor of McShame getting it handed to him. Guess thats why my immediate reaction to the OP was humorous.
It by no means says I am oblivious to the somber nature of what is now occurring in the ME.
Never mind.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)This could be serious.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)underpants
(182,800 posts)Still this will be shocking to McCain
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)ProgressiveJarhead
(172 posts)That was just a part of it.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)Faux pas
(14,672 posts)but I suspect that won't shut him up.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)should consult Petreus as to what to do, will the grumpy old man now attack Petreus, because that would be fun.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)- K&R
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)The American Taliban says: (Self Censored)
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Right. And Columbus discovered America. There were no native Americans here when the lost Italian sailing for Spain landed in Hispanola in 1492, thinking he was in India.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)and the one McGrumpy "won" is astounding. Moron, idiot, revisionist, but even more relevant: traitor, both then and now.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)"Bush won the war in Iraq before Obama lost it" is to 2014 what "Don't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud" was to 2002.
nikto
(3,284 posts)The Hanoi Hilton.
Maybe that'll shut him up, eh?