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 ISIS’s leadership is wise, it should leave Baghdad alone, where its advances will almost certainly be blunted by the USA and its Western and Arab allies, not to mention Iranian volunteers. On the other hand, if they just sit – the 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.

The USA can utilize the same trick it used to dislodge the Taliban from Kabul without actual US troops battling it on the ground. The USA provided logistics and air cover while the Northern Alliance (Pro-Iranian Shiites), who were earlier driven out of Kabul by the Taliban, did the actual ground offensive. This is the most likely scenario that the 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 the USA armed in Syria, trying to dislodge President Assad. It’s Al Qaeda all over again, a case of history repeating itself – war after war after war without end.