{"id":37117,"date":"2013-08-16T08:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37117"},"modified":"2013-08-16T08:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:32:05","slug":"us-accepts-rise-of-al-qaeda-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37117","title":{"rendered":"US accepts rise of al Qaeda in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember when we were told that when US troops left Iraq, the place would return to the peace-loving garden spot that it was during the Hussein years. We knew better, that leaving too early would only encourage the blood thirsty Islamists. Well, now, according to the Associated Press<\/a>, this administration is admitting the reality of the situation there and warns the world that al Qaeda in Iraq is on the rise. Of course, this admission comes on a day when a car bomb kills 33 people in downtown Baghdad;<\/p>\n

“Iraq sits at the intersection of regional currents of increasingly turbulent, violent and unpredictable actions,” Kerry said. “Sunni and Shia extremists on both sides of the sectarian divide throughout the region have an ability to be able to threaten Iraq’s stability if they’re not checked.<\/p>\n

“And al-Qaida, as we have seen, has launched a horrific series of assaults on innocent Iraqis, even taking credit for the deplorable bombings this past weekend that targeted families that were celebrating the Eid holiday. And this al-Qaida network, we know, stretches well beyond Iraq’s borders.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to report that suicide bombings have risen from about ten every day for the last two years to about 30 every day over the last three months. Seems to me they would have wanted to do something about 10\/day instead of it reaching this point…but that’s just me. Now that it’s a crisis, John Kerry is all over it.<\/p>\n

Kerry said he and Zebari talked about Iran and Hezbollah’s efforts to fuel conflict in the region.<\/p>\n

“We agreed that we cannot allow them to play on the sectarian divides to recruit young Iraqis to go fight in a foreign war, the same way that we cannot allow al-Qaida and other extremists to recruit young men from Iraq and elsewhere to join into their twisted version of jihad,” Kerry said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, there you go, problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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