EXCELLENT Frontline Video: Rise of ISIS, w/ Discussion of Maliki Gov't post US withdrawal

[Rayzur]

Excellent discussion just released and produced by Frontline of PBS, of the blunders and mis steps leading to the growth of ISIS, with lots of great footage of Maliki, his trip to the US, his upset with Hashemi (however you spell the Vice Presidents name), the Iraqi Government post US withdrawal (2011) and many of the things that went on during that time... and  we'd read about in poor translations that threw words like "watermelon" in the middle of the sentence so we had no idea what the heck was going on....

 

This is embedded in the Frontline site and I don't know how to bring in the actual video and so am posting the link.... If you want a really good overview of what went on.... don't miss this one.... (and maybe a Mod Wizard can get the actual video to post in here).

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rise-of-isis/?elq=13d80f9c71374c65a421aa1ae7614898&elqCampaignId=1073

 

 

PS there's lots of former Iraqi officials, Panetta, etc gov people and the narrator even pronounces names like Iraq, Qatar and Maliki correctly for a very refreshing change....

Edited November 7, 2014 by Rayzur

[Moonman1963]

Awesome, thanks Rayzur. Very informative. 

[sandfly]

THANKS

[Maja1962]

Here's the YouTube link:

 

http://youtu.be/_8sI7k3chaA

[Rayzur]

Thank you so much Maja!!!! This has such great historical information giving context to some of the news we were getting!!

[deniscanada]

VG video thanks Rayzur