As a continuation from my last blog whereby I believe the root of “World Peace” is centered on peace in the Middle East with the first step being negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians, I would like to remain objective and independent in my views such that I would like to today bring Iraq into my views as they seem to be the closest at this time to a full fledge civil war of rage like wild animals stuck together in a cage. However, it is important to note that Israel and Palestine seem to be awakening from their hatred induced coma state with the potential for peace negotiations to be resumed in the near future in the United States, while Egypt continues to operate in supremacy domination mode whereby the minority Christian military continues to hold on to power while the Muslim majority is fuming at the seams hoping to awaken from this horrible dream. As for the Syrians, both sides are still in an anger induced coma state for the mentally insane such that millions of Syrians continue to suffer each and every day. In terms of the Russians and Ukrainians, they seem to have entered into a political war game whereby neither party wishes to concede but rather seems to prefer to enter into a civil war and commit dirty deeds. While Israelis, Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians, Russians and Ukrainians continue along their respective paths toward enlightenment, it is now time for the Iraqis to be enlightened as to the path of quelling their current tensions before any more civil war breaks out which bears the risk of leading to a third and final world war on this earth, after which, there will be no place for anyone left to run. In summary, Observers around the world are stunned by the speed and scope of assaults on every major city in the upper Tigris River Valley, including Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. However, as the ISIS rebels extend their reach across Iraq, the U.S. Air Force was forced to intervene in order to prevent Genocide while Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki relinquished power opening a new political chapter that U.S. officials hope will move Iraq toward a more unified front against Islamic jihadistscurrently running wild and literally beheading “Infidels” like pigs without shedding a tear as blood spills out of their victims giving everybody creepy chills. On Friday, January 30, 2015, ISIS militants attacked KIRKUK in northern Iraq, an effort that might be an earnest attempt to capture the key oil-rich city or perhaps to divert KURDISH troops fighting to capture the ISIS’s stronghold of Mosul. For months, ISIS has been facing off with the KURDISH Peshmerga, armed fighters who protect Iraqi Kurdistan, to the west of KIRKUK. It had gone into areas on KIRKUK'S outskirts, but not the central city. Until now, apparently, as heavily armed ISIS militants attacked an abandoned hotel in central KIRKUK that local police had used as their headquarters. KURDISH Peshmerga and KURDISH anti-terror units later raided the hotel, wrestling control of it from the ISIS militants and killing three of them, according to KURDISH Peshmerga sources. In addition, two ISIS suicide bombers detonated themselves in an attempt to keep the KURDISH forces out. Also, ISIS militants took over Maktab Khalid, an area about 12 miles southwest of KIRKUK, after heavy clashes with the KURDISH Peshmerga. Among those killed was Brig. Gen. Shirko Fateh, the highest-ranking operational commander of the KURDISH Peshmerga brigade located in KIRKUK. Photos posted by ISIS purportedly show the group's militants in control of parts of south and southwest KIRKUK, burning tents that had been used by KURDISH Peshmerga troops. KIRKUK is a strategically important city in the months-long fight, one that has pitted ISIS against the KURDISH Peshmerga, Iraqi government troops and an international coalition that has carried out airstrikes against the ISIS terrorist group. It is one of the few notable cities, apart from the region of Kurdistan and its capital, Irbil, in northern Iraq that has not fallen to ISIS. Part of its significance stems from the fact that its oil reserves are almost as much as those in southern Iraq. The KURDS and the central Iraqi government in Baghdad have long wrangled over control of those reserves, with each side wanting to keep hold of them. ISIS, which relies heavily on revenue from oil smuggling to fund its operations, has been coveting them too. Without getting into further excessive details, the U.S. and its International allies should continue with their coordinated air strikes with the Kurdish YPG, Kurdish Peshmerga, Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Iraqi forces as this approach seems to be working to hold back the ISIS fighters’ advance. In terms of the critical success factor to victory, which in my opinion is to arm the Kurdish (YPK & Peshmerga) fighters, Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters and Iraqi fighters with equal firing power to ISIS by giving them the necessary heavy military arsenal to strike ISIS head on, I do not see anyone yet putting their money where their mouth is. However, in my opinion, ALL KOBANE fighters have set the example with their victory in KOBANE that what they may lack in heavy military arsenal, they make up with heart, determination and sheer adrenalin, with hearts of warriors and minds of gladiators, who seem to keep fighting against all odds, against an ISIS force ten times their financial and military strength, with an attitude of “Let’s Go As We Don’t Believe In No And We Don’t Fear Broken Bones”. It is precisely these hearts of warriors and minds of gladiators which the world needs to bring ISIS for a change to their knees. Therefore, now that KOBANE has been secured and ISIS has tasted their first major defeat shattering their steam of capturing KOBANE which lies at the center of their territorial dreams, I believe it is now time to focus on KIRKUK where the money lies with oil rich reserves which ISIS badly needs in order to finance its killing machine. However, in my opinion, the KURDISH forces need to be given back-up support on the ground in KIRKUK in order to ensure that the oil rich reserves do not fall into ISIS hands. In my opinion, the elite KOBANE fighters need to now be transferred to KIRKUK as they have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have what it takes to put an end to the ISIS killing machine of hate. However, the KURDISH fighters have also earned the right to share in the rich oil reserves in KIRKUK as a means to finance their military operations and ultimately the reconstruction of their share of the land that they call Kurdistan.
In summary, I refer to “World Peace Lennon Ivan Style – XXXXXXXXXXXXVII” as the belief that KOBANE Kurds, Syrian FSA and all Iraqis beat ISIS once so now KIRKUK, rich in oil reserves, needs to be liberated to stop financing steam of ISIS killing machine.
Spirit of John Lennon – Kurdish Guerilla Song for KOBANE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=783fUrwuM2A
February 2, 2015