There’s enough (bad) news coming out of Iraq to do a roundup of links on it, so let’s get to it:
Yeah, Iraq is pretty much screwed.
ISIS begins wholesale slaughter of Shias, government troops, Christians, and pretty much anyone else who’s standing around.
But what’s a little genocide when there’s important golfing to be done?
Tal Afir falls to ISIS.
And they’re getting close to Baghdad:
Hey, remember when Obama declared that “the war in Iraq is over”? (Hat tip: Powerline.)
Iraqis seem to have cut Internet service to the American embassy in Baghdad. Well, it’s a good thing the Obama Administration has such a sterling record of embassy security…
At least they sent an additional 100 marines.
Now would be a good time to listen to “Evacuation” from Mike Oldfield’s superb soundtrack to The Killing Fields, which played over the evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh…
I would says its surprising that Iraq’s own Parliament couldn’t be arsed to get together a quorum for an emergency session, but they were probably getting out of the country as fast as possible. After all, it’s hard to enjoy the fruits of your graft after you’ve been beheaded…
Not exactly psychic: Back in January, The Economist published this piece talking about how ISIS’s brutality was engendering a “backlash” against it that would make it easier to contain. Yeah, not so much.
But hey, the situation in Iraq is so farked up Obama actually used the word “Jihadists”! Progress…
Related:
Also, thanks to Obama’s transcendent powers of suck, Libya is now actually worse than it was under Gaddafi.
In closing:
Tags: Foreign Policy, genocide, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad
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