The US News reported that the facility's warehouses and large asphalt yards now hold about 3,100 vehicles, most of them MRAPs – the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles. There is also some electronic equipment and other supplies at the depot, located at Kuwait's Shuaiba port, defense officials say.This points to one uncomfortable reality.
“It’s hard to believe that this is simply an attempt to draw down the war,” Petras said.
“I think massing military armored vehicles is a sign that the US is looking toward a reentry into Iraq.”
The US Counter Insurgency Manual is fundamentally flawed, military/civilian leadership has failed and we're looking at continued fighting in a nation where the people's leaders chose to throw away America's hard work and treasure.
The Iraqi's are not worth it. Whether they continue as we once knew it is up to them. If they fail they fail.
If they die.
They die.
What do you prefer? A nation of terrorists doing support to terrorists actions on US homeland ?
ReplyDeleteIts hard to belive... but you need to back to Iraq and kill those terrorists...
why boots on the ground? if you assume that we must fight them and i'm not then why do we keep fighting enemies on their terms?
Deletewhat you're actually seeing are different interests groups inside the US military pushing for pieces of action instead of a coherent plan for victory against these clowns. why aren't we seeing orbits of B-52's over the battlefield dropping bombs on anything that moves? why do we insist on sending our sons to fight them face to face instead of simply obliterating them and moving on>?
Actually these were never insurgencies, they were local objections to the US meddling in their countries, overthrowing their governments and occupying their countries, and now we see the results. Why continue to meddle?
ReplyDeleteThere is currently a worldwide travel caution for Americans caused by this foolish behavior which harms Americans.
If the Saudis are so worried, let them deal with it, and pay the dime. I'm all for a fight like any Marine, but we trained and equipped the Iraqis, most of them have what looks like in all these videos better gear than I got issued at cif, and new weapons! Time for the rest of the Middle East to pick up the burden
ReplyDeletespot on brother! these guys need to get it together. the Iraqis get gear and run like cowards in the face of the enemy. in the USMC they'd be charged.
DeleteThis IS the Saudi's method of 'dealing with it'. ISIL is Saudi and Qatari backed because they want Sunni powers in control of Iraq. Shia Iraq is a _dead certainty_ translation to Shia Persia in 20 years time.
DeleteThe Shia are stupid. They don't have the generations of high intelligence population to manage society. The Sunni Baathists did. That is why 15% of the population ruled 80%.
The Saudis DO NOT want an Iran empowered by Iraqi oil reserves sitting opposite them on the OPEC pricing committee, any more than they want a bunch of head cutting extremist thugs in juxtaposition with their own Wahabist extremists in The Kingdom.
Everything motors on fine so long as there is no direct sense of threat as opportunity. Go along to get along. But if you put a Shia state in charge and their answer is Sharia everything is not efficient or self sustaining (Iraq's ability to refine gasoline and keep their oil production infrastructure working, _for their own needs_ remains crippled) and thus they will fall into a Failed State conditions which drives them to anarchy and 'helpful' overrun by Quds Force militants smuggled in by their Mosque system and yearly pilgrimages.
That would be the end of Iraq as an independent state, much as the VC being hung out to dry _by North Vietnam_ so that they could be replaced by NVA regulars was the real death knell outcome of Tet.
The U.S. cannot afford democracy and capitalism for these retards. We don't want the Shia in charge and they frankly aren't smart enough to run their nation based on a (shared) profit motive.
Saudi is helping us 'solve the problem' (as they are in Iran friendly Syria) with their own private mercenary assets and we are likely 'ignoring a lot' because of this.
Keep in mind that it took 4,200 trucks to keep Iraq in the automotive business at .05 per gallon of fuel. Ferrying fuel into and out of Bahrain or Qatar.
Their refinement capabilities have not seriously improved since then (though prices are up, to .40 per liter) and so the reality is that _someone_ is supplying these bastard gasoline to sustain their mobile group campaigns.
That someone is going to be visible as hell, whether they are stealing from captured government compounds, any civilian supplies not long since burned up. Or bringing it across from some border.
And yet we cannot find them?
Please.
I'm pretty sure a lot of these vehicles are for Iraqi Army. I won't believe it's preparation for a ground war until I see it happen. I say **** them let them die for their own country. I can't imagine how Afghanistan is going to look if we ever pull out.
ReplyDeleteHaving destabilized the Middle East by overthrowing the one madman who knew his demented population and whom we could count on to -never- yield to the Iranians, we have set up a situation whereby China, who has already supplied such things a beryllium (nuclear reactor shielding and neutron source material) and IR scanners (weld checking on missile fuel tanks) can be the only one who benefits from a situation in which Iran wins even the intermediate game as a function of Iraq falling to pieces.
DeleteIn the longer term, the Iranian 'Peace Pipeline' and the Chinese Silk Route II are like peas in a pod and can only be about pushing oil and petrogas to China which in turn is means that China has an unreachable, energy source which the USN cannot torpedo out from under her with submarine economic warfare.
A strong and energy independent China can uncouple her RMB international currency from the USD and insodoing, push interest rates through the roof: 3-4% in a month by the end of a year.
Since The Fed is largely underwriting if not /undermining/ the world economy by continually flooding it with fresh batches of worthless (77:1 debt ratio) currency, destroying the potential for economic growth WORLDWIDE, as a function of keeping those damn interest rates (and our capital debt payment as a function of GNP) under control, you can bloody well bet that if we /ever/ let Iraq go under at the same time we knock over Sunni Syria that will only mean the Iran who, like Iraq, is 80+% Shia, will step into the vacuum.
Remember your history/social studies courses? Power abhors a vacuum?
Well then, get ready baby because thanks to our doofusian meddling and interference in the natural order of things over there, we have built a Hoover and plugged in the cord and she done be ready to suck the artificial British Mandate (that's 1920-22 Sykes-Picot and Anglo-Iraqi treaty folks, this idiocy has been with us for a long time) boundaries right out of _Persia_ reborn.
At which point, if Iran has nukes in the closet or supplied from outside, the U.S. Economy is _fork done_. And Israel is just plain /done/.