My daily observations of the situation in Iraq and Syria , and the scary advances of hordes of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria , (ISIS , or DA'ESH , in Arabic ) to the outskirts of Baghdad threatening the whole existence of the poppet Iraqi central Government .
One honestly cannot but wonder at the Iraqi army , and it's whereabouts !! the security forces and other governmental apparatus , how did they evaporate so quickly and miraculously ?? The million-strong Iraqi army , trained for years , by the U.S. at a cost exceeding 28 billion $ , evaporated , and all equipments and arms , given and left behind vanished .
Didn't we , American tax payers , spend billions upon billions of our Dollars to reform and train the Iraqi army ?? didn't we watch hundreds of documentaries , films and video clips , showing and brainwashing us with the thousands of American contractors and regular army personnel in military and combat dresses training Iraqi solders , and didn't we at the end leave billions upon billions worth of equipments , where is it all ??
TO say it was all a mirage !! that's easy , to claim that the few thousands of ISIS barbaric fighters are absolutely invincible !! or that all of our tax money are gone with the desert winds , or maybe only few special interests and war contractors got to smile !!
WE still claim to maintain a considerable body of military advisors and training forces , maybe all or most of it in the green zone , we keep paying for maintaining it , is it all now in the hands of few Iraqi complicit conspirators ? Iranian hands ?? El Maliki siblings deep pockets ??? or American special war advisers and contractors ??
WE all very well know and understand that the Bush/Sheney era adventurism , did cost the American tax payer and the American economy a huge price . A price we're still paying till today , but honestly to look again today , at the results of our spendings for the past twelve years or so , one cannot but wonder ....
Let the coming days tell us the naked truth , if at all .
Just some quick reflections on what's happening and our relation to it . My usual thanks for your patience .
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