'admin' pid='44933' datel Wrote:
'ArtM72' pid='44915' datel Wrote:The link http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/world/meas...-the-isis/ suggests quite reasonably ISIS is Sunni Moslems put down by the Shia majority in Iraq now looking to create their own country in the north of Iraq and NW Syria. Does not look like a train we want to get in front of. al-Maliki has been setting the stage for this revolt for quite some time. Now it is upon him and he want our help. It is tragic but seem inevitable in the absence of some powerful diplomacy from other Moslem nations.Yes. We talk about polarization in the US, but the Middle East is quite something else still. Last decade it is being bombarded with satellite and other media financed by extremist, flaming the hate between Sunni's and Shia. This isn't going to end well. Maliki, instead of nation building, he's there only for his own Shia, although there are moderating circumstances in the form of Sunni dominance under Sadam. That wasn't exactly a walk in the park...
It is very difficult to admit failures such as the al-Malki government has been. Tougher still to see our news media providing no scorecard as to who has been right in their assessments over the years, and who has consistantly been wrong.
Heard today the Fox News logo at the bottom left corner of the TV is now rotating because so many peoples' tubes have the original image burned in.