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I don't want to be pessimistic about the RV happening,  but it seems that it is looking less and less likely every day.  

 

http://www.ammoland.com/2015/05/what-the-fall-of-ramadi-means/#axzz3bG9di9KO

 

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- The fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, largest province in Iraq, after a rout of the Iraqi army by a few hundred ISIS fighters using bomb-laden trucks, represents a stunning setback for U.S. policy.

When President Obama declared that we shall “degrade and defeat” the Islamic State, he willed the ends, but not the means. The retreat from Ramadi makes clear that the Iraqi army, even backed by 3,000 U.S. troops, cannot drive ISIS out of Anbar and Mosul and back into Syria.

Baghdad cannot alone reunite Iraq.

Republicans are almost gleeful in charging that Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq created the vacuum the Islamic State has now filled.

Blaming Obama for ISIS in Iraq is shaping up to be the 2016 GOP attack line. But when it comes to the critical question — do Republicans favor reintroducing U.S. ground troops to retake Ramadi and Mosul and drive ISIS back into Syria? — no credible GOP presidential candidate is clamoring for a return to Mesopotamia.

None of the mice wants to bell that particular cat.

Yet, absent American leadership and U.S. troops, who is going to expel the Islamic State? The only forces in Iraq able to attempt that are the Shiite militias whose sectarian barbarity is exceeded only by that of ISIS itself.

For the Sunnis of Anbar to be liberated by Shiite militias is like the Catholic Poles being liberated by the Red Army in 1945. Many Sunnis fear a rescue by Shiite militias more than they do the domination of the Islamic State.

America’s choices in Iraq, none good, come down to these:
  • One: Reintroduce 10,000 ground troops and Marines to retake Ramadi and Anbar, and thousands more to retake Mosul and cleanse Iraq of ISIS. Another surge, like 2007.
    • Yet that does not solve the problem of the Islamic State, which would retreat to Syria and wait for the Americans to leave Iraq again.
  • Two: Adopt a policy of degrade-and-contain by continuing air strikes on the Islamic State in Iraq, while training and backing the Iraqi army and Kurds in keeping ISIS out of Baghdad and Irbil.
  • Three: Accept the inevitable — that the Shiite-led Iraq we created by dethroning Saddam and smashing his Baathist state and army is going to be in the orbit of Iran. For we cannot now, without a major and indefinite reintroduction of U.S. forces, alter the existing balance of military and political power in Iraq.

Before the United States replicates the epochal blunder Bush II and the neocons committed, we should look hard at the realities of Iraq and the region, as we failed to do before we invaded.

The relevant realities are these.

First, the Iraqis are incapable of reuniting and pacifying their country themselves. To hold Iraq together and keep it out of Iran’s sphere would require a large and indefinite presence of U.S. forces.

How much more American blood and treasure is that worth?

Second, while the reintroduction of U.S. ground forces may be cheered by our Western allies, no NATO troops will be there beside us. As far as the West is concerned, Iraq is America’s problem.

Nor will the Turks, Jordanians, Saudis or Gulf Arabs be sending troops to fight ISIS in Iraq or Syria. For them, the greater long-term dangers are: Iran, Hezbollah, Bashar Assad’s Syria, Shiite Baghdad, and the Houthi rebels of Yemen, the so-called Shiite Crescent.

Another reality is that neither Syria, nor Iraq, nor Libya, nor Yemen is likely, soon, to be brought together as a unified nation-state under a government supported by a great majority of its people.

Any regimes that rise in the capitals of these four nations seem certain to be seen by a significant slice of the population as illegitimate, and valid targets for revolutionary violence.

The Middle East is becoming a basket of failed states. And as we look around that region, every country is looking out for No. 1.

The Turks looked the other way as volunteers entered Syria to join ISIS. The Turks then let Kurds cross into Syria to keep ISIS out of Kobane. Now, according to Assad, the Turks are aiding al-Qaida (the Nusra Front) in establishing its own caliphate in Idlib. The Saudis and Gulf Arabs also, says Assad, aided the Nusra Front in taking Idlib.

And what of us?

Considering the millions of dead, wounded, uprooted, homeless, sick and suffering, American-born and native-born, have our wars and bombings in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen been, on balance, more a blessing than a curse to the people we went to help?

Before we plunge back into these Middle East wars from which, at long last, we have begun to extricate ourselves, we ought to recall the words of that anonymous U.S. officer in Vietnam:

“We had to destroy the village — in order to save it.”

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.

 


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More scare tactics being printed in articles........to all that want to get rid, dump, sell, burn, or use your dinar as toilet paper feel free........I'll be waiting right here with mines until it does RV, because it will. I'm in this for the long haul and I'm staying positive.........All with me, Give it the old Go RV, cheer!

Go RV!  

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Our troops have been in Afghanistan since 2001 and their Afghani AFN currency increased in value with the below example in 2010. Our troops are still in Afghanistan now in 2015, so I say smoke.

 

The New Afghani AFN currency shows up starting in May 1995 for exchange.

If you had spent 5,000.00 USD on Afghani AFN in Dec 2000 you would have gotten 23,750,000.00 AFN.
In 10 short years you could exchange it back to USD on Oct 2010 and receive $525,791.00 USD for a $520,791.00 profit.

This shows that an actual RV has occurred in history. It was not an overnight deal by no means, but it shows that our IQD can make some serious returns for us. Kuwait's currency was maybe the only overnight you got rich if you bought it at .10 scenario in history, but now I have more faith than ever that we will see a big return on what we have in IQD.

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ISIS is like every other group on this planet. It is controlled by rich and powerful people with the same agenda. That agenda is universal, Power and Greed. ISIS is nothing more than a tool by which they can use to accomplish their goal to that end. When it is beneficial for ISIS to no longer be in the picture, they will fade away, only to be replaced with yet another tool to accomplish the same end. 

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ISIS is like every other group on this planet. It is controlled by rich and powerful people with the same agenda. That agenda is universal, Power and Greed. ISIS is nothing more than a tool by which they can use to accomplish their goal to that end. When it is beneficial for ISIS to no longer be in the picture, they will fade away, only to be replaced with yet another tool to accomplish the same end. 

Maybe so...Only problem is that it looks like it's working fairly well ( for ISIS)....They defeat regular armies apparently.....

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I am not getting rid of my dinar.I like the pictures on them.I truly do not believe that there will be an RV.They are printing larger notes NOT smaller ones.that is a telltale sign right there.these notes are NOT being printed for LARGE transactions.that doesn't even make any sense.nobody on earth hauls around pallets of paper money for big transactions.it,s all done by WIRE.WAKE UP GUYS.

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Well, I got a bunch of money on the Come Line! I'm just trusting in The Good Lord Jesus, now! I must admit the natural man in me see's a disaster approaching. I've said this before and I will repeat, anybody that's been in this for while knows what I'm saying is true. Their isn't anybody that knows anything about this R V deal! All anybody knows is the scuttle-butt that comes out of that $h-t hole! Everybody has opinion of what it means too! Then you have all these Poo-Roo's out there spewing their vial trash to anybody stupid enough to believe it, It really makes for a big disaster in the end, when we finally really know how the story ends! There are a couple of things that keep me in this, at the level I'm at, I learned a long time ago you NEVER change a bet! After all this a bet! All Texans, know a bet! I can tell you that for sure! With my knowledge of Mexican money and how it works, at the time 5 years ago it sounded like a bird nest on the ground. The main factor for me, is that if this deal does go down (R V), I'm going to be able to help a lot of hurting people and further the Great Commission! Also, I believe Adam has a very good plan as to how to make a lot more money with our seed money. I just need the R V, like everybody else here, that plans to be apart of the Great Commission. I know for a fact, that The Good Lord Jesus is coming very soon, I know we have been hearing this, our whole life, Anybody with half a brain can see, everything lining up with what was written a log time ago. Don't believe me, do a little research for yourself. Start with a book by a Dr. Eben Alexander, he is a neurosurgeon that had near death experience.  Do a little investigation, it might save yours and your families lives. To me it looks very bad which I stated last June & July. Now it looks even worse! I do Know that good all ways wins, I know ISIS is EVIL. I just hope we get our number, before a 7 is rolled. Do have a plan and a plan to act! Either way! I like everyone else want a R V, Its just through the natural eyes of man, It doesn't look good anytime soon!  :twocents:

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