Iraqi Shi’ite militias brutally cracking down on Sunni towns that have been reclaimed in central Iraq have made them very much unwelcome in the fight against ISIS as far as many Sunnis are concerned, and has even driven some of those Sunni tribes into direct alliance with ISIS to avoid the militias taking their towns.
Not so in Hit, however, in the far east of the Anbar Province, where the recent ISIS massacres of the Albu Nimr tribe, one of the few Sunni tribes loyal to the Iraqi government, has brought the entire surrounding area into direct alliance with the Shi’ites.
The two factions, at each other’s throats elsewhere in the country, fight side-by-side against ISIS here, with an eye on expelling ISIS from the important town.
If they pull it off, it could be a big win for the Iraqi government in the near term, as it would both move ISIS away from Baghdad and could be touted as a victory for sectarian cooperation.
In the long-run, however, the split between the Sunnis and Shi’ites isn’t going anywhere, and it wouldn’t take much to ruin this one incident of cooperation.
Counting body parts — The West is ahead 10,000 to 1
in overall deaths, surely the Islamic State does not do carpet bombing and kills maybe one civilian for every hundred wasted by the West. So, look not at the war that war is being waged by the parties, but reflect upon what the moral outcome would be if the Islamic State were to bring about a new form of government.
For the West has perfected a hopeless form of government, a democratic dictatorship that allows the upper half to hoard all the wealth and the austerity for the lower half can only go in one direction, a global warming that causes a genocide of the laboring-class.