No end in sight until Iraq becomes a federation divided along traditional Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish lines!? Kurds to the north, northwest and northeast, Sunnis in the middle, midwest and mideast Shiites to the south, southwest and southeast?

Any conflicting interests better sorted/protected by a Senate with veto powers, putting the stamp of approval on all reviewed and possibly amended government legislation?

Truly representative (free and fair) elections and essential Regional autonomy is the only game in town, with a snowflake's chance in hell of addressing these problems. And allow peace to prevail and the Iraqi people to once again unite in the face of a common aggressor! As opposed to trying to do its work of annihilation for it!

A couple of decades of (Dictator free) internal peace, essential to restore both trust and regional harmony! They need to try something else, given what they're doing now isn't working! Just exacerbating the problems!
Alan B.

Here is some disgusting truth about the supposed liberation of Mosul. Iraq is becoming a failed state, got to love the US arrogance.

http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/2017/07/28/mosuls-bloodbath-we-killed-everyone-is-men-women-children-by/

Geoff

Ben Myer: It is hard to imagine the mammoth death and destruction that has been inflicted on the Iraqi people by foreign powers and domestic terrorism.

Domestic Terrorism & bad Dictators & their supporters. The foreign powers went in to protect the people from these bad & dangerous people. Unfortunately, these Middle Eastern Countries, such as Iraq, cannot ever be helped. The Tribal & Sectarian hatred of each other is endemic in each & every person in each of the Middle Eastern Countries. They want to return to the 6th Century, as dictated by Islam, yet they also want the modern world, but in a 6th Century style. I just can’t be done.

The West should just butt out. In saying that, the export of Islamic people to the West must stop & those that are in the West must be returned to the Middle East. These people cannot & will not assimilate into Western Culture. If the Middle East is Decimated or worse it can’t be helped. It would be entirely on their own heads.

If this doesn’t happen the West will be dragged into a protracted War, the like of which has never been seen before, in Europe, then the rest of the World. It has started already & needs to be stopped, post haste.

G of P: Here is some disgusting truth about the supposed liberation of Mosul. Iraq is becoming a failed state, got to love the US arrogance.

So you hate yanks. eh.

"The foreign powers went in to protect the people from these bad & dangerous people"

Every time I read jingoistic tripe such as that I know it was stated by a myopic mentally challenged unfortunate entity lacking in any cultural understanding whatsoever.....nuff said lest I offend

ilmessaggio: nuff said lest I offend.

I never get offended by anything. You are entitled to you opinion & I respect that entitlement, no matter how flawed it my be.

May I hear what you believe is the reason for the Hell in the Middle East, please. But, let's go back before the West was involved.

Now more than ever before thanks to the Internet, people are becoming aware of what has really been behind many wars and other atrocities. Re the US invasion of Iraq, was clearly based on pretexts leaders knew were lies. The real main agenda was Israel wanting to "divide and rule" Arab states, have them fighting amongst themselves and reducing the military threat to Israel and opposition to Zionist expansion. Is well recognised that a long term dream is of a "Greater Israel" between the Nile and Euphrates Rivers, which involves displacing millions of Arabs and stealing their land and resources. Obviously Zionists were the main organisers of 9/11. Not some mad Arabs, as propaganda would have us believe.

Fortunately "False Flag" atrocities are now being more quickly and widely exposed than ever before. Including some that occurred long ago such as unsuccessful attack on the USS Liberty by Israel in 1967 to try and have the US blame Egypt and help in the 6 day war against it is now being widely exposed. Is also becoming increasingly recognised that 9/11 was another false flag backed by Zionists and it had more than one agenda. These included business for the military industrial complex, weakening an Arab state on behalf of Israel and an enormous Jewish stocktake" by Larry Silverstein and associates who apparently did very well out of insurance payouts for buildings that eventually would have very high demolition cost due to asbestos in them. Also, where what was claimed to be a plane but evidence indicates was a missile that crashed into the Pentagon "happened" to destroy the area containing lots of evidence of astronomical financial discrepencies.

It seems countries in the Middle East especially that have suffered US Military interventions are realising that the best way to peace and end the humanitarian crisis is to try and get the US out. It is like arsonists who covertly light fires and then come racing around pretending to help control them while their real aim is to loot and set up opportunities for more future theft.