Iraq was eager to draw the US deeper and deeper into the war against ISIS, and cheered when the US expanded that conflict across the border against ISIS targets in Syria. Now, they’re regretting it.
That’s because despite administration officials insisting the contrary, the Syrian town of Kobani has become not only a priority for the US war, but virtually the entire focus of the air war, and Iraq is getting less and less attention.
Now, the Iraqi military is complaining they’re back where they were, with virtually no air support as the US war machine shifts west into Syria. The last week saw 5 airstrikes in Anbar Province, where ISIS is gaining territory, down from 16 last week.
The Kobani area, by contrast, has seen 70 US airstrikes in the past week, with the number increasing all the time. The Pentagon claims hundreds of ISIS fighters have been killed in and around Kobani by the strikes, though the town is still expected to fall.
War on Syria — Empire expansion unlimited
The American public assumes that we have a real democracy, a functioning government striving for long term stability, politicians doing everything to end our wars and in this case bombing Syria to save it from an ISIS fate worse then death.
So much for most entertaining fiction, for in effect and in actuality:
(1) We have a fake democracy where the uneducated lower half of society suffers economical slavery and everyone gets to enrich themselves upon the misery of those in a lower class.
(2) We have a fake government, nothing more then a smokescreen hiding a rich man’s anarchy, an Empire ruled by a power combine of the corporate rich.
(3) Highest priority of our Empire is instability, as it maximizes expansion.
(4) Greatest profit for our Empire are wars, especially in the Middle-East as it maximizes profit in trading war materials for Middle-East oil.
(5) Our war on Syria is for 30 years of Middle-East instability, a total destruction of Syrian infrastructure like we did to Iraq, 30 years of blowing up our very expensive bombs in exchange for boat loads and boat loads of very expensive crude oil.