{"id":61928,"date":"2015-09-21T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61928"},"modified":"2015-09-21T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:36:07","slug":"iraqi-troops-flee-isis-with-the-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61928","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi troops flee ISIS with the “refugees”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy11M sends us a link to Reuters<\/a> which reports that some of the Iraqis who are supposed to be saving their country from the Islamic State are, instead, throwing down their weapons and joining the refugees headed north to Europe;<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Iraqi defense ministry said the military was not concerned about the migration of soldiers, which he put in the “tens” out of a security force estimated to number in the tens of thousands.<\/p>\n

“The armed forces are performing their duties. There is no reason to be worried,” said General Tahsin Ibrahim Sadiq.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“Iraq is worth fighting for but the government is not,” said a 22-year-old SWAT policeman who decided to emigrate after his brother was killed in battle earlier this year at the northern Baiji refinery where he was also posted.<\/p>\n

“There is no concern for us at all. The government has destroyed us,” he told Reuters, saying Baghdad’s failure to reinforce soldiers had caused avoidable losses in a battle that has dragged on for more than a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I wonder where he’s going to go when he discovers that the European governments don’t live up to his expectations.<\/p>\n

John Kerry announced yesterday that the US will accept more immigrants in the next two years in order to accommodate more of the refugees from the Levant, according to CNN<\/a>; <\/p>\n

“This step that I am announcing today, I believe is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,” Kerry said. “And it will be accompanied by additional financial contributions to the humanitarian effort, not only from our government but from the American people. And that will become more specific in the next days.”<\/p>\n

Many of the additional refugees would be Syrian. The U.S. had previously indicated it was going to increase to 10,000 the number of Syrian refugees the United States planned to take in next year; so far this year has taken in about 1,500 Syrian refugees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This from the State Department which hardly lifts a finger to bring the interpreters and scouts that we used in Iraq and Afghanistan to safety here. We’re not the world’s policemen, but apparently, we’re the world’s Section 8 housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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