Iraq on the brink of collapse? Barbaric Islamic Jihadists seek Islamic Caliphate of Syria and Iran.

By Rob Janicki

What we are witnessing in Iraq is the beginning of the inevitable fall of the Iraqi government.  I say inevitable, because the Iraqi government is demonstrating that it is incapable of defending itself in the face of murderous and barbaric Islamic Jihadist terrorists seeking to create an Islamic Caliphate comprised of both Iraq and Syria.  

Let's remember that President Obama purposely left Iraq with no status of forces agreement in force to leave any American military assets in place to provide support and training for Iraqi military forces.  Obama wanted to get out of Iraq so badly that he ignored all professional advice to the contrary so he could rack up political points with his liberal base as the man who got the U.S. out of Iraq.  Obama is now engaged in employing the very same strategy in Afghanistan with the announcement that all U.S. military forces would be removed from Afghanistan by 2016.  So far there has been no status of forces agreement with the existing government in the capital of Kabul.

Obama's shortsighted decision is now coming back to bite millions of Iraqis and eventually the U.S. and its allies in Europe.  This is not particularly a surprise since early on everyone who follows politics realized that all Obama's decisions are based upon the politics of his radical liberal agenda to fundamentally change America.  Part of that fundamental change involves a diminishing role for the U.S. as a world leader advocating for individual liberty and freedom, while seeking to prevent the rebuilding of any Islamic Jihadist terrorist organization that aims to harm America and its allies.

You know Iraq is in serious trouble when NBC News admits on their evening news with Brian Williams just how tenuous the situation is in Iraq.  Major cities in north and west Iraq have fallen to these al Queda like, Islamic Jihadist terrorists, including Iraq's second largest city, Mozul.  These are the same terrorists that are operating across the Iraqi border in Syria.  These offshoots of al Queda  terrorists seek to create an Islamic Caliphate joining Syria and Iran into this fabled dream of theirs.

The Iraqi government has lost control of several large territories in northern and central Iraq to a jihadist group, an offshoot of al Qaeda. On Wednesday, they seized Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq.

According to Engel, “some Iraqi security forces are fighting, but most appear to be stripping off their uniforms, leaving them in the streets, and abandoning their posts, weapons and vehicles”, while “thousands of civilians are fleeing the area, living in tents.” Read more 

If Iraqi military forces are fleeing in the face of these terrorists early on in this conflict, there isn't any reason to believe that they will somehow miraculously regroup and hang around to defend Baghdad or the  remaining parts of Iraq that are not currently held by these terrorists.  NBC News seems to be of the opinion that the situation in Iraq will be a long drawn out conflict.  I suspect this is more wishful thinking than sound reasoning.  

The facts of the ground indicate otherwise.  The terrorists have captured an Iraqi bank with a reported $100 million dollars on hand.  Couple that resource with all the American military equipment the terrorists have captured from the Iraqi military forces as they flee in the face of terrorist forces and it becomes obvious that iraq's future is bleak and it could collapse in a state of complete chaos in the not too distant future

It should be noted that these terrorists are the same barbarians who regularly are participating in beheadings in Syria to strike terror in the hearts of all their enemies and the civilian population.  They are beginning to do the same thing in Iraq.