People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili
Ranj Alaaldin, The Guardian: It’s Iraq, not Isis, that’s on the way out
If today’s atrocity in Baghdad draws Shia militias into reprisals against Sunnis, it would kill off hopes for the democratic restoration of the Iraqi state and society
“Isis is an idea, not the first of its kind and not the last of its kind,” said a powerful security official when I visited Iraq last month. Indeed, as the international community boasts of Isis’s demise, the jihadists struck a Shia district in Baghdad today, killing at least 63 people and wounding 80 in a series of devastating market bombings.
Officials say that Isis has lost almost half its territory in Iraq and more than 20% in Syria. It is true that Isis leaders are being eliminated and its infrastructure devastated. But while Isis may be losing the territories it governs, today’s attack (and others over the past months) is a reminder that it is still able to commit atrocities across Iraq, and continue to operate as it has done for more than a decade.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 11, 2016
Mosul: suspicion and hostility cloud fight to recapture Iraqi city from Isis -- Martin Chulov, The Guardian
Iran's Oil Sector Returns to Form -- Matthew Bey, Stratfor
Algeria economy: 'The worst is to come' -- Djamila Ould Khettab, Al Jazeera
The sun has not set on oil and mining industries in Africa -- Olusegun Obasanjo, Business Day
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N. Korea's triumphal congress does little to win over a frustrated China -- Stuart Leavenworth, CSM
Cultural Revolution concert fuels China power struggle rumours -- Tom Phillips, The Guardian
How America Picks Its Next Move in the South China Sea -- Zack Cooper & Bonnie S. Glaser, National Interest
China, India and what a new ‘red telephone’ would mean for the world -- Peter Marino, Reuters
Ukraine's Free Trade Deal Was Just a Start -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
The Geopolitics of a Ukrainian Border Town -- Lili Bayer, Geopolitical Futures
3 revealing myths about Brazil's crisis -- Brian Winter, VOX
Brazil’s Democracy to Suffer Grievous Blow Today as Unelectable, Corrupt Neoliberal is Installed -- Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Obama Should Go To Hiroshima -- But Not For The Reason He Gave -- Michael Auslin, Forbes
Spike or glut? Two very possible—and radically different—scenarios for the future price of oil -- Steve LeVine, Quartz
Mapped: The countries that host the most refugees -- Annalisa Merelli, Quartz
6 comments:
Check out all the stuff the troopie in the foreground has strapped on his rifle.
Can 5000 us troops fight their way out? We're very exposed with enemies all around.
Can 5000 us troops fight their way out? We're very exposed with enemies all around.
jimbrown,
That's one of those questions that's hard to answer. Depends on where they are, where they're trying to go to, who they're fighting etc, etc, etc. But what is certain that it's a major failure of upper leadership (political and military) for something like that to even happen.
Very well said James.
Thanks B., but when you blabber as much as I do, you get at least one out of hundred.
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