Sunday, July 16, 2017

The fall of Mosul and American self-congratulations

What is amazing is that despite the sacrifices of many Iraqis--Sunnis and Shi`ites, Kurds and Arabs, Christians and Muslims--in the fight against ISIS, the US media and politicians are engaged in self-congratulations convinced that the difference in the fight against ISIS was not made by the tens of thousands of Iraqi fighters but by the 5000 US soldiers in Iraq.  Notice that the role of Russian bombing in Syria aghast the economic infrastructure of ISIS (which really started the process of the demise of ISIS) is always obscured.  Personally, I am not a fan of the way the fight against ISIS in Mosul or in Syria has been managed.  Both US and Russia have been careless in respecting the lives of civilians.