Pentagon plans for massive weapons shipments to Iraq are looking to be accelerated tonight, as the Obama Administration considers how to get involved in the growing war with al-Qaeda in the nation.
Early shipments are likely to include Hellfire missiles and drones, with artillery and other weapons to follow. The recent loss of Mosul to al-Qaeda fighters has the US hoping they can stall the offensive with arms for Iraq’s military.
Whether that works remains to be seen, and since the Iraqi soldiers in Mosul fled outright, abandoning a lot of US made weapons to the invading militants, it isn’t clear that the US shipments might not just end up in al-Qaeda’s hands anyhow.
Though there seems to be some consideration of US drone strikes as well, there is no appetite for direct US involvement in Iraq again so soon after the last failed war, and by and large the US aid is going to be financial, buying weapons they hope will eventually turn the tide of battle.
Maybe we should send in our “moderate rebels.”
well done DC, soon they will be supplying both sides.
We the West — Worthless scumbags that we be
For a thousand years Iraq has been ruled by the Sunni tribes and for the simple reason that as fighters and warriors they are unequaled. So, as the goal of Empire USA is for the Western corporate rich to plunder Iraq until peak oil has come and gone, the Sunni tribes have been kept out of politics, kept out of the military, kept totally enslaved and oppressed.
Comes now all this talk about more military aid for the dictator, what about some humanitarian aid for the half million Sunni civilians now fleeing Mosul? And how about we the West allow the Iraq Civil War to run it’s course so that the warriors most deadly may establish a monopoly on the use of force and violence, so that peace and stability may be established in the only way possible.