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The ‘new Iraq’ that the warmongers promised us did not bring Starbucks or startups, but car bombs, al-Qaida and Islamic State, says Iraqi poet Sinan Antoon
U.s. forces were involved in rescuing those two pilots. but clearly what the saudis are preparing to do is to try to push back this attack because they're concerned with what the iranians have said. the iranians have said they've now taken the capitals of four arab states. they're talking about yemen, damascus damascus beirut talking about baghdad, and they're now articulating that they're positioned to create problems for saudi arabia. so the saudis clearly do not intend yemen to become a staging ground for iran for attacks. i would also just say this is a problem for the united states becaus...
>> we're getting a broader sense of what the u.s. has already been providing, the department of defense paper that's been released to us shows there are between 30 to 35 manned and unmanned flights going over iraq, gathering intelligence, bidding a broader picture of what's going on in the ground. in addition, course, we have that aircraft carrier on the coast. and two vessels with the capacity for guided missile, if and when an air strike is deemed necessary. but the reality on the ground seems to be what is emerging is almost a new reality. in iraq, redrawn along sectarian lines where the su...