In the “Desert Shield” Gulf War of 1990, George Bush Senior
stopped at the border after chasing the cowardly Iraqis out of Kuwait. He
resisted the hawks’ demands that he march on Baghdad, but George Junior
had other ideas and in a knee jerk rage in 2003 he decided on an Iraqi regime
change. That decision which resulted in his “Mission Completed” farce is the
reason for the current Iraq chaos.
Doves are against all wars but a world without wars is the
impossible dream only Greens dream. We were born with a war chromosome that
drives an insatiable will to win... that’s how we have progressed in everything
from sport to commerce.
Wise old owls are needed now the world is in turmoil but
owls are a threatened species now the chips are down.
There are two very different theatres of war being conducted right now
for the first time via internet propaganda. People simply don’t trust
mainstream media any longer, newspapers are as good as finished and television
networks and commentators have pigeonholed themselves into Left/Right dogma.
Three dangerous people are now in charge, Putin, Poroshenko and Obama,
and it’s a perilous ternary of self interest that could easily have disastrous
outcomes if the wrong button is pushed.
Let’s take Putin first. No-one has asked why he has marshalled his
forces in the south east of Ukraine yet it’s obvious he is taking the most
direct route to the annexed jewel of Crimea that he needs a land corridor
to.
It is currently isolated and Poroshenko is determined to keep it
that way because he, with Europe’s accord, intends to reclaim Crimea... and
Putin knows it.
"This is probably the most dangerous situation in Europe since the
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968," said a NATO official. "Realistically,
we have to assume the Crimea is in Russian hands. The challenge now is to deter
Russia from taking over the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine."
But it’s not really about Russian speaking Ukrainians in the rural
east, it’s all about the Crimea and if the Crimea now belongs to Russia why
shouldn’t Putin seek to prevent Ukraine regaining it?
There is no road linking Russia with the Crimea, the only road is
from Ukraine, so what the hell does the West expect Putin to do? Ask nicely if
he can access his own territory?
Putin told Obama during a 90 minute phone call that, “Russia reserved
the right to protect its interests and those of Russian speakers in Ukraine and
to protect its Black Sea fleet in the Crimea”. Obama warned if he persisted,
“there would be costs”, meaning puerile sanctions.
Obama can’t have it both ways, either he admits the Crimea is Russian
and convinces Poroshenko to allow Putin land access or he agrees to Ukraine
reclaiming it. The latter option is World War III.
Obama’s hawkish attitude to Russia is not reflected in Iraq. He has a
political reason not to have troops there, yet if ever US troops were needed,
and with immediate UN approval, it’s right now.
Australia and Canada are leaving the US in their wake with native
common sense. It’s pointless trying to assist the Iraqis, they are mired in
Islamic clans and will join whoever gains the ascendancy.
The Kurdish peshmergas (meaning those who confront death) will bravely
fight to the death for their northern homelands and can be trusted with the
weapons Australia is already dropping. They even withstood Saddam Hussein and
his Sunni gas weapons. Given armoury they will be more than a match for the
craven ISIL.
The peshmerga have never really been tested since a US led invasion
toppled Saddam in 2003. While the Shias and Sunnis engaged in wholesale
sectarian slaughter, Kurdistan remained free from the bloodshed, possessing
mostly AK-47 rifles which proved little help after the Iraqi army surrendered
their US tanks, anti-aircraft weapons and machine guns to ISIL.
Air strikes are a waste of time without troops on the ground relaying
coordinates. One 400lb bomb for each suspected ute is an exercise in futility.
(ISIL have already swapped their utes for sedans.) The free world is praying
for Obama to act so they too can commit troops but Obama is busy in a bunker
somewhere.
ISIL believes it has God’s approval to steal murder and rape and Obama
must take the lead in proving them wrong. There is no time to lose and for
every minute he equivocates the threat increases exponentially.
Islamic communities that have infested the West are excited and
emboldened by ISIL’s apparent successes and they are clambering to assist.
Obama says he doesn’t yet have a strategy when there is clearly only
one strategy available, ground troops supported by air strikes.
Of the three most dangerous people in charge of these two incendiary
war zones, Obama is the most frightening,.. watch:
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