Iraqi officials are bragging about a “magnificent victory” over ISIS in Tikrit, and the “liberation” of the Sunni city from foreign Islamists. The liberation looks an awful lot like another ugly occupation.
Shi’ite militias that led the offensive against Tikrit are now carrying out lynchings, insisting the people they are summarily executing are ISIS sympathizers, dragging their bodies through the streets on parade.
Then there’s the looting. The militias are gleefully running amok in Tikrit, ransacking stores and private residences, and burning homes seemingly for the run of it.
All of this was predictable, of course. The Shi’ite militias have followed this same strategy after “liberating” other ISIS-held towns, with horrible sectarian blood-letting often worse than the fighting that preceded it.
Sectarian tensions have played a major role in ISIS taking over so much of Iraq to begin with, and every “victory” over ISIS leads to more sectarian purges, which in the long run increase the pool of abused Sunnis ISIS can recruit from.
Its a brutal war, the Shia militias have lost many in the battle for tikrit and in battles all over Iraq and Syria , im sure a lot of the people being “lynched “are either ISIS militants or atleast sympathizers…
“war is hell”
Be honest: were we really expecting anything different?
The Shiite-Sunni war will only escalate further.
Our honorable ally.
Why is it there are never any pictures or videos of these alleged atrocities? I’ll be the first to oppose them, but I don’t think they are happening in anywhere near the scale described. The head of the Salahedin provincial council would not exactly be an unbiased or reliable source.
1) There are, including appended to the article linked. 2) When there are more graphic photos conspiracy nutters all say they 'look fake,' because apparently they know what a human beheading 'should' look like. Can't win.
And Bibi the Babykiller is laughing all the way to the US arsenal while Libyans, Egyptians, Saudis, Iraqis, Syrians, and Yemenis are all killing each other. Even if the killing stopped today it would take a hundred years to recover from the orgy of blood.
I don't understand how the US and Zionist arsonists think they can set the whole world on fire and still escape the flames.
America sit backs and acts innocent yet they started the invasion then used airstrikes to allow shia miltia's into the city, if God is a just God then America is in for one hell of a nightmare
Empire USA knew full well that the reason the Sunni tribes had for hundreds of years been the absolute rulers of Iraq was because of their superior ability to fight in combat. So, to create perpetual civil war, our Empire during their 10 year occupation turned the Sunni tribes into slaves of the Shia militias.
And so, unless and until the Sunni tribes are allowed to rule again, never in Iraq will there be peace again.
Misery — Does it have a good purpose?
We all have a different ability to achieve wealth, which gives everyone the ability to experience the four emotions that bond society together in peace and harmony. Namely, compassion, pity and charity given in a way that produces a grateful response.
Problem is, to do good in this way deprives us of all the pleasure that comes from competition. Namely, the glory of wealth and the power that comes from hoarding wealth. And as Paul Newman explained in his movie The Hustler, “Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
Truth is, the ultimate conclusion of competition is Empire building, bigger and bigger wars caused by Empire expansion, global warming and the total destruction of life.
So, humanity must reach the ultimate conclusion of competition, for only in this way will we ever know what is good and what is truly evil.