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To: LindyBill who wrote (557740)	6/13/2014 10:29:53 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) of 793957

What will we do if the rush to run explodes and Baghdad falls to the Jihadists? The thing that's hard to understand is how the "rebels" in these situations always seem to be full of dedicated, fierce, willing to die for their cause fighters, and the standing army seems to consist of a bunch of cowards who just want their paycheck and will run away at the first shot. The standing army should have better organization, better communication, better weapons and better everything (you know, supplies!) than the "rebels". How is it that they are unable and/or unwilling to repel the rebels? You posted something earlier that 30,000 people were fleeing an assault made by 800 rebels - that's ridiculous. Outside of the major cities Iraq is one big, flat desert - it's easy to find and attack an advancing force. This rebel advance has been going on for what - 10 days? - and they've already taken two of the three major Iraq cities? That's faster than the US advance on Saddam in Gulf War 2. How is it that the "rebels" in Syria have been fighting for 2 years now, and appear to be losing, while the "rebels" in Iraq can take over large chunks of the country in a week? It just doesn't add up.

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