If You're Wondering Whether the Iraq War Will Spread, Your Wondering Days Are Over
The war in Iraq between Sunnis and Shiites has spread. While reports of events in any war can be unreliable, ranging from misunderstandings and mistakes to downright lies, it would appear that the following report holds credence:
You may want to review our previous comments, as they well apply to what's going on in Iraq right now. Reason, combined with some knowledge of both history and current event, really does point us in the direction of any ever-widening war that will at the very least impact the price of oil (which it has already done). But that's just the impact on markets. The human tragedy - already incalculable - will grow, especially the danger for Christians who are prime targets for the ISIS rebels. That aspect has hardly been reported. It's a habit of the Western media to ignore the fate of Christians who comprise a minority in these countries. Frankly, we should consider this inexcusable and hold those who ignore the Christians' plight accountable.
Ironically, the rise in the price of oil will benefit the Iranian government, so we wonder just how much energy they'll put into countering the ISIS (Sunni) rebels in support of their Shiite brothers in Iraq. But that's what happens in war. Someone always makes a lot of money one way or the other, even as the vast majority of people suffer and die.
BAGHDAD—Syrian warplanes struck targets in the western Iraqi province of Anbar on Tuesday, killing at least 50 people as foreign allies of Baghdad's Shiite-dominated government sought to shore up the crumbling Iraqi armed forces and curb the advances of Sunni insurgents.We recently noted that 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, warning that the Ukrainian-Russian conflict posed a greater than regional threat, in addition to the Iraq conflict. While reports tell us that Putin has reversed his original plan to invade Ukraine, we'll have to see how reliable those reports turn out to be. Meanwhile, the Iraq war has indeed begun to spread as the Shiite governments of Syria and Iran have - rather predictably - begun to fight for their Shiite brothers in Iraq.
More than 132 other people were also wounded when bombs hit the municipal building, a market and a bank in the district of Al Rutba, according to a provincial official and Mohammed Al Qubaisi, a doctor in the district's main hospital.
It was the second consecutive day of airstrikes by Syria, which has joined Iran in coming to the aid of the embattled Baghdad government. Tehran has deployed special forces to help protect the capital and the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala, which Shiites revere.
You may want to review our previous comments, as they well apply to what's going on in Iraq right now. Reason, combined with some knowledge of both history and current event, really does point us in the direction of any ever-widening war that will at the very least impact the price of oil (which it has already done). But that's just the impact on markets. The human tragedy - already incalculable - will grow, especially the danger for Christians who are prime targets for the ISIS rebels. That aspect has hardly been reported. It's a habit of the Western media to ignore the fate of Christians who comprise a minority in these countries. Frankly, we should consider this inexcusable and hold those who ignore the Christians' plight accountable.
Ironically, the rise in the price of oil will benefit the Iranian government, so we wonder just how much energy they'll put into countering the ISIS (Sunni) rebels in support of their Shiite brothers in Iraq. But that's what happens in war. Someone always makes a lot of money one way or the other, even as the vast majority of people suffer and die.
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