A deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their families escape from Raqqa

Re:A deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their familie... by jacobush on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:45AM (#15693620)

”On May 23, 2003, Bremer issued Order Number 2, in effect dissolving the entire former Iraqi army[40] and putting 400,000 former Iraqi soldiers out of work.”

As for who made him do it, I don’t know. But as you said, it was idiotic. And that’s worse than evil. Dietrich Bonhoeffer would agree with me.

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Re:A deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their familie... by wolco on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:23AM (#15693743)

I'm not sure it was a bad move.

Leaving the army and power structures in place would have created conditions for a civil war that could have spilled over the entire region. Leaving the defeated minority population to continue ruling over the south and kurds would have been a blood bath.

Disbanding created isis but not disbanding would have been worse. We'll never know how worse things could have gotten.

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Re:A deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their familie... by skj on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @07:11AM (#15694360)

> a civil war that could have spilled over the entire region.

How would you describe what actually happened?

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Re:A deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their familie... by jacobush on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:45AM (#15695386)

So, worst case, pay the soldiers to do nothing while vacuuming the market for guns and destroy them.

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