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US: Iraqi forces lack will to fight

Numai un birocrat american – cum ar fi Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (cu un CV greu de egalat -.care se pare că a fost “crescut” pt DOD și poate chiar mai departe…) se poate mira – public, de ce se-ntâmplă în Iraq, se poate gândi că un irachian va gândi ca un american… Niciodată – cum spunem noi, una-i una și alta-i alta.
Irachienii vor gândi și vor rămâne însă irachieni, cu interese geostrategice specifice lor, neamului și regiunii.  Iar ISIS, pe cât de supărătoare, dar totuși o mișcare islamistă în țara unde islamul e ca ortodoxia la români.  Interesele lor nu sunt nicicum cele americane – și eu cred că – pentru acum, irachienii își doresc doar să iasă cumva din plasa occidentală în care nici măcar n-au intrat – au fost aruncați de-o forță colosală și de neînvins – încă, de armata americană…

Dar unii, mai extremiști așa – și-au pierdut răbdarea cu americanii salvatori – din ’90 încoace – și-au pus de-o răzmeriță religioasă (care de fapt se vrea religioasă) – încurajați fiind mai ales de – debordanta, inactivitate americană în Syria și Orientul Mijlociu.  Well, bineînțeles că “avântul” ISIS trebuie coroborat și cu deschiderea noului front European în Ucraina (noului front anti-american)… Revenind la ISIS, de fapt nici nu știm cine sunt, avem ceva idei, dar cam atât.  Iar cine caută răspunsuri la americani, inclusiv la Agenție, i-aș trimite înapoi la școală – because this one they didn’t see it coming.  Această mișcare extremistă își propune redesenarea granițelor de după Conferința de la Paris.  Și este bine finanțată și echipată.  Iar americanii au privit agale vreo doi ani așa – unul din motive este că Syria a fost off-limits, n-a fost verde de la ruși…

Și unii se miră de ce irachienii nu-i împușcă pe irachieni și-i caută-n lunetă tot pe americani – americanii care le-au adus luneta…

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Istoria se repeta…

There are no words to add to this. But Churchill saw it coming.  Read his ending comment.

IRAN 1970

IRAN 2012

AFGHANISTAN

EGYPT (Cairo University) 1959

EGYPT (Cairo University) 2012

NETHERLANDS (Amsterdam) 1980

NETHERLANDS (Amsterdam) 2012

…And some people still do not see a reason to worry!
Winston Churchill 1899. “Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”

This is amazing. Even more amazing is that this hasn’t been published long before now.
CHURCHILL ON ISLAM Unbelievable, but the speech below was written in 1899.
(Check Wikipedia – The River War). The attached short speech from Winston Churchill, was delivered by him in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist. It probably sets out the current views of many, but expresses in the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and use of the English language, of which he was a past master. Sir Winston Churchill was, without doubt, one of the greatest men of the late 19th and 20th centuries. He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist, an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war leader and British Prime Minister, to whom the Western world must be forever in his debt.

He was a prophet in his own time. He died on 24th January 1965, at the grand old age of 90 and, after a lifetime of service to his country, was accorded a State funeral.

HERE IS THE SPEECH:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol II, pages 248-250 London).
Churchill saw it coming.

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