IRAQ – Gulf War 3

With the fall of Fallujah in January and the latest fall of Tikret and Mosul (Iraq’s second biggest city); the dream of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) to establish an Islamic State is within sight. If the ISIS’s leadership is wise; it should leave Baghdad alone where their advances will almost certainly be blunted by USA and its Western and Arab allies not to mention Iranian volunteers. On the other hand; it they just sit – USA will bomb them back to the Stone Age.

Massive quantities of US armaments supplied to the Iraqi army including tanks and armored vehicles were abandoned by the retreating government forces in Tikrit and Mosul.

USA can utilize the same trick it used to dislodge the Taliban from Kabul without actual USA’s troops battling it on the ground. USA provided logistics and air cover while the Northern Alliance (Pro-Iranian Shiites) that were earlier driven out of Kabul by the Taliban did the actual ground offensive. This is the most likely scenario that USA will do and even turn a blind eye to Iranian volunteers to beef up Al-Maliki’s forces. Ironically; these are the same terror groups that USA armed in Syria trying to dislodge President Assad. It’s Al Qa’eda all over again; a case of history repeating itself – war after war after war without end.