Militant Atheist
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Too much BS.
There is no such thing as Sunni and Shi'a tribe, same tribes have members of both sects nowadays. Those tribes are not unified, 15.000 tribesmen just joined the security forces after the departure of Maliki, many others are following. Even members from the similar tribe aren't all united on their political stance.
As for scorched earth policy as you called it Iraq lacks the military power to do that, the few SU-25's are only useful for firing rockets, unguided bombs dropped without having a FLIR sight on the enemy has proven to be useless. If they do this the US and everyone will be against the Abadi regime. You need B-52's for that or a large fleet which we don't have, i'm actually glad the Iraqi air force doesn't have a large fleet of old aircraft without precision bombing capability, the collateral damage would be huge having all of the media crying and using it as propaganda.
Those tribes are mostly trying to save their own skin, whenever ISIS comes along they greet them. They fought alongside Americans back in 2004 as the Awakening forces ( sons of Anbar ) and have been fighting alongside Iraqi army since then. Have you seen what happened to the Al Shtat tribe in Deir al Zor Syria, several members from the tribe killed a dozen ISIS in return the entire tribe got massacred through beheadings & gunshots.
Sure they aren't taking a firm stand against ISIS but in this huge regional and internal political mess it's not unexpected. The start of a solution lies in Abadi & his gov hands now.
Recent vids of a week ago people from Anbar fighting ISIS alongside gov forces, more vids on the channel
I'm very well aware of Iraq's airforce limitations, that's why I said you should use Bluster Bombs.
Are you denying that there are Iraqi tribes aiding the ISIS? Are these tribes majority Shiite or majority Sunni?
You seem to be a bit misinformed my friend. %95 of politics is about interests. Don't think that our regime cares so much about the Salafi school of thought when they make political decisions. This is an obsolete way of classifying governments. Trust me, the last country that wants any good for Iraq is Iran. That way they keep it 100 light years away from causing any military, political, or economic threat to them. Again, it is all interests. They can't care less about Shia brotherhood. But, they will keep using that brotherhood to continue conquering the parts that they still haven't conquered in Iraq (if any have remained).
You can throw what I said above in the garbage if you want. But never underestimate the Persian's psych enormous contradictions, and unreasonableness.
Actually, logically speaking its Saudi that wants Iraq to remain in its current condition, after all oil is your primary source of revenue and a Shiite Iraq could greatly mess up with your monopoly over the oil market, that is why you're playing all these games, that is why you are supporting Sunni extremism in Iraq, that is why you don't have an official relation with Iraq. So stop the blame game bullshit and take responsibility for your actions.