The Iraqi military has reiterated yesterday’s comments that the planned conquest of the city of Fallujah is “on hold” over concerns of civilian casualties, but al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) seems to be losing territory anyhow.
That’s because following yesterday’s warnings by the local Sunni tribal leaders, the tribal militias have begun fighting AQI in earnest, having retaken parts of Fallujah and a solid chunk of what AQI held of Ramadi.
That may not necessarily be good news for the Maliki government, however, as while they’ve been pushing the locals to rise up against AQI, the tribal leaders have made clear they’re also willing to fight off any attempts by the military to retake the city.
If AQI is removed from the situation, it’s going to make the growing unrest in Anbar more apparent, and the Maliki government’s crackdowns will be even harder to justify without them.
Fighting these Wahhabis-Saudis barbarians is the people’s of Iraqis and Syria pleasure, fighting those governments of David Cameron, the Swedish king and others whom were and still helping these barbarians is the civilized societies responsibility.
What is happening in Iraq is happening also in Syria, “a civil war,” why the war party in Washington isn’t calling it a “civil war?”
The whole saga of Iraq from the US inspired invasion and occupation through the utter incompetence of the CPA, pretend elections, Vichy-style puppet government, Pale-like Green Zone and now the return to Ottoman era tribalism is a damning indictment of the nation-state concept and the notions of patriotism and protective government that it peddles to its captive citizens and subjects.
The trends towards globalism, inequality, oppressive surveillance, militarized police and exploitation of the disadvantaged in the nations that perpetrated the collapse of Iraq and other middle eastern countries is further proof that the the nation-state is a failed concept worldwide.