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6/19/2014 1:38:17 AM
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Iraq requests US air support
[quote]Iraq has formally called on the US to launch air strikes against jihadist militants who have seized several key cities over the past week.
"We have a request from the Iraqi government for air power," confirmed top US military commander Gen Martin Dempsey in front of US senators.
Earlier the Sunni insurgents launched an attack on Iraq's biggest oil refinery at Baiji north of Baghdad.
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki earlier urged Iraqis to unite against the militants.
Government forces are battling to push back ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) and its Sunni Muslim allies in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, after the militants overran the second city, Mosul, last week.
US President Barack Obama met senior Congress members on Wednesday to discuss the Iraq crisis. The White House said Mr Obama had "reviewed our efforts to strengthen the capacity of Iraq's security forces to confront the threat from ISIL [ISIS], including options for increased security assistance".
Ahead of the briefing Senate leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said he did not "support in any way" getting American troops involved in the Iraqi "civil war".
But Gen Dempsey told a Senate panel that it was in America's "national interest to counter [ISIS] wherever we find them".[/quote]
ISIS, y u do dis?
ISIS, stahp!
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35 回复Lol people in this thread act as if the events happening over there won't eventually affect us. Obama has lied to us about the terrorists. He said Al Qaeda was on the run, that they were only a shell of their former self, but as soon as we retreat from the battlefield, they almost instantly take over all sorts of major cities. People are treating these terrorists like naughty little children who aren't really going to bother us. The blinding ignorance will destroy us. Al Qaeda is stronger than it has ever been and will only seek more destruction, and it's only a matter of time before they acquire an atomic bomb if we don't do anything about it. This forum is only proof at how terribly uninformed and ignorant our country is.
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8 回复It's America's duty to get involved. First they put Saddam into power. Then they get rid of him and allow Al Qaeda to invade Iraq when there was ZERO AQ presence in Iraq until America invaded. Now after America has destroyed Iraq with all this senseless meddling, they DON'T think it's their duty to stop the terrorists from winning and controlling a country? They WILL create a caliphate there. If you guys think that this isn't a holy war and that they should "burn" as if it's all their fault, you're wrong. America has to provide air support at the very least.
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1 回复I wish, that America, Russia, China, Germany, Britain, and any other European countries who wanted to tag along, would go to the Middle East and just start mass genocides. Maybe then those people would calm the -blam!- down over there.
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19 回复I honestly don't see the point in trying to intervene anymore. We aren't going to stop the thousands of years of sectarian conflict in the middle East, and we wasted way too much of GDP over the last decade thinking we could. Let them figure it out.
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2 回复We shouldn't have intervened in the first place. But not intervening now will make us look like bigger assholes. We need to fix what we started, then gtfo.
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1 回复Perfect time to send in our robots. Drones and that pack mule thing equipped with LMGs. Yeah, thats good.
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2 回复[quote] Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki earlier urged Iraqis to unite against the militants. [/quote] And yet he continues sectarian policies that directly raise support for ISIS. Iraq doesn't need airstrikes. It needs Maliki to go.
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29 回复It would be beneficial to stop an extremist group from taking over the Middle East seeing as how they could easily implement extremist, anti west laws and spawn countless terrorist movements from that sort of society. That being said, intervening means killing the civilians they embed themselves with, not to mention potentially risking American lives, so it's hard to say what is right to do.
