They Don't Like It Up 'Em

        
                                It's not only "cold steel" that they don't like up 'em

Last Friday on the White House lawn Obama said something sensible for a change. Who knows? Maybe he’s growing into the job, finally.

“We will be monitoring the situation very carefully over the next several days. We will not be sending US troops back into combat in Iraq. But I have asked my National Security Team to prepare a range of options…”

He may be right for the wrong reason, but hey, it’s a start.

The reason he’s right to rule out US troops is that after 10 years and the best part of a trillion dollars, America has done all that could reasonably be asked to establish freedom and democracy in Iraq.

If 30,000 Iraqi government troops, trained and equipped at great expense by the American tax payer break and run in the face of an attack by 800 untrained Kalashnikov wielding sadists in Toyotas, there really isn’t any more the US can be expected to do for them. Those 30,000 surrendered or fled abandoning 72 tanks, 700 Humvees  and thousands of tons of ammunition.

Sure the Marines could swoop down and annihilate ISIS in two weeks flat. In the immortal words of the Omdurman veteran in Dad’s Army “They don’t like it up ‘em!” But what good would it do? There is a point at which you have to accept that Iraqis don’t want freedom and democracy or at least they don’t want it enough to fight for it.

But my guess is that the Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite dominated government won’t fall. The psychos in the ISIS are not very numerous and have made it very plain that they’re more interested in sating their bloodlust with thousands of murders than in toppling the Iraqi government. After this week’s atrocities, loving captured on video, even the biggest Iraqi pantywaist seeing the consequences of surrender will fight. So my prediction is that the ISIS will be beaten back to their mothers bedrooms in Beirut, Riyadh, Tipton and Bradford to dream more dreams of slaughter.

And should that happen the Iraqi government will be far more firmly bedded in than before.

But even if the Iraqi government does fall to the Islamists it wouldn’t necessarily be bad for us strategically, however bad it is for them spending the next few decades fulfilling the snuff movie fantasies of very evil men.

This is because in addition to not liking cold steel up’em, Muslims don’t seem very keen on having too much Islam up ‘em either.

My evidence for this seemingly bonkers statement is the Islamic Republic of Iran. What better test bed for the joys of Islam that the self described purest Islamic entity in the world. No country has seen more homosexuals executed or produced as many candidates for the 72 virgins (more like torture than reward if you ask me). So it’s curious that it is Iran  of all Muslim countries that should be the most western, where it counts.

Two observations:

Iran has a lower fertility rate than Britain (1.85 vs. 1.9). There is no more reliable indicator of real liberation of women than a low birth rate.

Iran is also the only Muslim country that has seen mass demonstrations on the streets for more freedom. Others demonstrated to remove kleptomaniac tyrants and replace them with true Islamic governments. The Iranian youth, of both sexes, demanded an end to the miserable restrictions to their lives in theirs the most Muslim of states.

Islam in action is and will always be its own worst enemy. It’s ideology is both ridiculous and unpleasant.

All we have to do for our part is keep the good life going over here and the saner Muslims will vote with their vices.

After a couple of decades close acquaintance with the joys of Islam, they will come round.