There are no good guys in power in Iraq. Certainly the Shiite president of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, is not worth defending. He and his criminal underlings like to jump into pickup trucks with electric drills with which to torture their Sunni rivals, but they certainly don't know how to unite their country. I just heard on National Public Radio that al-Maliki is so partisan that he replaces talented Sunni generals with incompetent Shia lackeys.
The result? The Iraqi Shia military are currently fleeing the Islamic Sunnis invading from Syria. They're not putting up a fight.
There are no good guys in power in Iraq. When the Islamist extremists catch the Shia military, they execute them and photograph the executions for the world to see.
People all over America who lost sons and husbands in Iraq during the ill-advised Iraq War are not interested in putting troops back on the ground in Iraq, nor should they be. They've had enough.
We spilled blood and treasure in Iraq for nothing. There were no weapons of mass destruction. The only thing the Iraq invasion accomplished was to do the one thing for Iran that Iran had been trying to do for years but hadn't been able to do. We did it for them. We gave Sunni Iraq to Shiite Iran and put Iraq in the hands of the Shia.
There are no good guys in power in Iraq. If we do anything in Iraq, we should bomb the hell out of the invading Islamist army from the air so they can't advance beyond Iraq into Jordan, our ally.
As for protecting the current Shia government in Iraq? It's not worth protecting. We broke Iraq, but we certainly don't own it. The Shia are as bad as the Sunni.
There are no good guys in power in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a Sunni. Al Qaeda is primarily Sunni. The Shiite Ayatollah Khameini in Iran, the supreme leader who decided to arrest young women protesters in Iran and then have military police officers rape them because it's against Islamic law to execute a virgin, then execute them because they were no longer virgins. The rapes are also to prevent the women from entering heaven after they're executed.
There are no good guys in power in Iraq or in Iran. Why on earth would we want to work with Iran to defend the Shia government in Iraq?
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