The US State Department has announced a partial evacuation of the US Embassy in Baghdad.
This will see all non-essential personnel evacuated, with the State
Department confirming it is a “threat linked to Iran” that sparked the
move.
This is a recurring theme as the US continues to build up forces around
the Middle East, and continues to talk of a war against Iran. For weeks
the Trump Administration has talked of Iran, or “Iranian proxies”
potentially attacking US or US-related targets.
This of course centers heavily around Iraq, where the US has styled
Iraq’s Shi’ite militias as “Iranian proxies,” even though they are
formally part of Iraq’s own security structure. The US has repeatedly warned Iraq that the militias better not threaten the US forces in Iraq.
US hostility toward Iraq’s Shi’ite militias, and against Shi’ites in
general has Iraq’s majority Shi’ite parliament calling for the US to
leave Iraq, and the militias are unsurprisingly backing those calls. US
officials are now claiming that those militias are moving rockets around in Iraq to locations where they would be within range of US bases.
With the US having gone to great lengths to define the Iraqi forces as
“Iranian,” this fits neatly into the narrative of a potential Iran
attack. The partial evacuation of the embassy just gives the appearance
of one more US move toward launching a war.
I think they meant “threats targeted at Iran.”
Are these the same militias that we paid to stop shooting at us?
Could be trump stopped the check.
The country club embassy won’t be attacked. Other US bases are fair game in the US govt starts another war.
This is really troublesome. This has a potential of either causing amother strife in Iraq as Shia supports Iran, while Sunnis do not — or more likely our troops are the tripwire, as Iraqis can take revenge on them. It is almost as if someone wants so DESPARATELY to start anything to cement staying in Iraq. What kind of generals are allowing this kind of operation? Bringing in heavy hardware, while relying on whatever troops are alreadu in Iraq . Given that we were asked to leave, and were supposed to draw down numbers, the situation on the ground is bad.
The US “embassy” in Iraq’s capital is more like a fortified city, armed to the teeth. Its “diplomats” were mostly professional threateners and covert-war spies. They are lying combatants occupying a country that doesn’t want them there… so yes they should be concerned about being thrown out by force.
Not just Baghdad, but also the Consulate in Erbil.
The Sunni and Shia in Iraq will tangle again,
the only certainty.
Back off and let them.
and the Irish and British, and the Hindu and Muslims, and the Catholics and Protestants, and the Israelis and Everyone else, etc.
False comparison.
None of those you cited begin to match the
scale, butchery or genocidal fury of Sunni/Shia hatred,
either in history or right NOW!
how about the Tutsis and Hutus?
Extremely limited vs
the Muslim internecine slaughter for centuries.
You seem to have missed and/or forgotten the Christian internecine slaughter for centuries.
You seem to have missed and/or forgotten
that ended over a centuries ago.
While people continue to fraud an apples and oranges comparison
re. Muslim internecine slaughter that
has existed for centuries and
continues even more ferociously—TODAY!
Large-scale internecine Christian violence went on for about as long as large-scale internecine violence has gone on so far, and continues on a smaller scale today.
You just make excuses for one and not the other.
No, the European wars of religion were a series of religious wars waged in Europe in the 16th, 17th and early 18th century. The wars were fought after the Protestant Reformation’s beginning in —–1517, which disrupted the religious and political order in the Catholic countries of Europe.
Less than 2 and a half centuries.
Shia and Sunni Islam chose sides following the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in —AD 632, and
continues today unabated.
A dispute over succession to Islamic prophet Muhammad as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin. The dispute intensified greatly after the Battle of Karbala, in which Hussein ibn Ali and his household were killed by the ruling Umayyad Caliph Yazid I, and the outcry for revenge divided the early Islamic community, which is known today as Islamic schism.
The Christian violence has ended,
the Muslim violence shows no signs of even considering an end
after 15 centuries!
“The Christian violence has ended”
Someone forgot to tell the (explicitly Christian) Ku Klux Klan, John T. Earnest, Robert Bowers, Eric Rudolf, et al.
The KKK is all but defunct,
and nut-jobs exist in every classification of mankind.
But a clash between religious factions,
full-on sworn to the death,
lasting nearly 1500 years and
showing no signs of abating, even TODAY,
is unprecedented in the annals of history.
The Christian clash a mere blip by comparison.
PS: isn’t it ironic that after billing itself as the “religion of peace”,
it cannot/will not, make peace, with itself???
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.” — Jonathan Swift
I agree with Jonathan.
To compare a 1500 yr. bloodbath,
within one so-called religion (which continues TODAY),
with any other comparatively short-lived historical atrocities
requires a determined effort to, “not see”.
Nothing compares to this consistently enduring hatred and total lack of any attempts toward a resolution. Totally unique!
This internecine war is unprecedented in all history.
Everything else was resolved with time.
Not so with the mad-mullahs of Islam.
and the Irish and British, and the Hindu and Muslims, and the Catholics and Protestants, and the Jews and Everyone else, etc.