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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow much of a role is the CIA playing in this "new" Iraq War??
We can assume that they were helping to arm the militias in Syria against Assad, because they have admitted as much.
Also, the Kurds moved in and took over Kirkuk and the ISIS rebels were not able to capture that city. The US and the CIA have long been close to the Kurdish people. This is a large oil-producing area.
The US government has recognized for some time that Maliki and the Shia government in Baghdad were much closer to Iran than the US. If the US does not assist Maliki, the present Iraq government in Baghdad and Iran will be isolated within their present boundaries and will be dependent upon Iran for its subsistence, including food and water.
Knowing the history of the CIA, it is easy to imagine that a lot of the stories coming out of Iraq are created and managed by US intelligence.
Any thoughts?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Response to kentuck (Original post)
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CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)The trouble is, it's *too* good.
And a lot of their communication is out in the open on facebook, twitter and youtube but somehow no one noticed what they were doing, even though all of our communications are monitored.
it is.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)The CIA is powerful, but I doubt it's capable of managing every major operation of some benefit to US interests in the whole of Syria and Iraq.
kentuck
(110,916 posts)But I think they worked very closely with the Kurds in the last Iraq War?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)capable of keeping an area of Iraq from totally descending into chaos. They kept the Iraqi part of Kurdistan calm.
markpkessinger
(8,366 posts). . . or does it seem to anyone else that the CIA's long and troubled history of meddling in other countries has created far more problems fo the U.S. than it has ever solved?