Posts

Showing posts with the label Iraq

Iraq

While how things evolved in Iraq took many people by surprise few observers were expecting it. Do not take me wrong, what ISIS managed to achieve militarially is astonishing but make no mistake it has to do with the support they found from Sunni population they came across or at least their apathy toward the central government.  Since Malaki appeared on the political scene in Iraq he made his intentions quite known. He did not reserve any effort to put Shiat interest on top of all Iraqies but made it his priority. Putting loyal army officers and public servants in every important joint in the government is one example. He manages alienate the Sunni tribes and the Kurds, this why his solider left their posts and ran away. Most of them were Shiat but did not have the backing of people they supposed to protect and secondly they were not certain of their government backing.  The Thoughts of ISIS having state in Iraq and Syria is scary and it can not be good to the region or to the...

Sudan: Fight for the heart of the South

Image
An excellent documentary done by Aljazeera English which done couple of months after the referendum. It give you a quick glimpse into current issues facing south Sudan as new emerging nation, as many commentators in the documentary discovered the greatest enemy of the state is the people of south Sudan themselves. Blaming the north would not be helpful and is equivalent to hiding your head in the sand. North Sudan is become the Israel of the South. Having said that I have no doubt Khartoum and NCP do whatever they can to undermined the government in the south, I do not know why as any sensible reasonable commentator will tell that a stable prosperous south Sudan is in the best interest of the north but may be not in the interest of the NCP.  Bashir and his cronies need war, need to scare northern Arabs from people in the margins, northern Arabs are becoming the Sunnies of Iraq. When there is peace people of the nor...