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To: Elroy who wrote (557775)	6/14/2014 7:40:17 AM
From: teevee	1 Recommendation Recommended By Hoa Hao Respond to of 793964

There was also an article here about how the rebel group had captured the central bank in one of the occupied cities and obtainbed $500 million in gold. So......why in the world didn't the military take that rather than leave it for these "rebels"? LOL.....of course they did......and blamed it on ISIS. When the rebels are defeated, I expect a new US backed military dictatorship that will control sectarian violence with an iron fist. Goodbye democracy in Iraq......

To: Elroy who wrote (557775)	6/14/2014 1:50:40 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793964

It's not bizarre or hard to believe if you understand Iraq, and Arab states in general, are not real nation-states in the Western sense. Western armies are composed of soldiers who serve a nation-state, are disciplined and ordered, and fight to win. Arab armies, not so much. They belong to a tribe and a clan, not to a nation. It isn't any different, really, for the last 2500 years. The Persian army outnumbered Alexander and had advantageous terrain at the Granicus and at Guagamela. Darius' Mesopotamian army split apart and ran at Guagamela. They did better at the Granicus because there were Greek mercenaries in the army led by a Greek.