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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28709530
Great, that.......*sighs*
Just keep our lot out of it, please.
What would you expect them to do, given the impending slaughter/rape and enslavement of those Yazidi refugees being hunted by ISIS/ISIL?
Why not - it all went so well last time they did it
It's a different situation.
Why not - it all went so well last time they did it 😕
our lot? i assume you mean the UK Military.
another branch of a very religion based war, how long did/do you expect the big boys to sit on the sidelines and watch?
The irony being that Saddam was - relatively speaking - quite tolerant of many religious faiths.
quite tolerant of many religious faiths.
Not a huge fan of the kurds though.
a very religion based war
US intervention at the moment is restricted helping one side in a war in which both sides are predominately Sunni Muslim, so a very religion based war in the same way that the English Civil war was a very religion based war I guess.
I have no idea what the status of christmas pudding in IS controlled territory is, not good I suspect.
Not a huge fan of the kurds though.
Well the US gave him the chemicals to very effectively gas Kurds, so I guess that slight character flaw can be overlooked.
US intervention at the moment is restricted helping one side in a war in which both sides are predominately Sunni Muslim
I think one side is predominantly Shia, if not certainly supported by them.
Edit; maybe not. Edit; Maybe so. The Iraqi govt are Shia are they not?
Humanitarian bombing is a contradiction. No doubt many innocent people are going to be mistaken for ISIS fighters and given some love from above...