Editor:
I want everyone who got us into the Iraq war to preface each and every comment he now makes concerning the currant state of affairs in the Middle East with a humble apology and a plea for forgiveness.
These guys have got the bloody nerve to open their mouths with advice on ISIL, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine or fiscal policy, for that matter … We are in deep debt, thanks to them and can not realistically afford to take on anyone. And everyone knows it, it seems, except the Republicans.
The GOP turned America into a laughingstock.
In Arabic, ISIL is “al-Dawlet al-Islamiyyeh fi al-Iraq w al-Sham,” which literally translates to the Islamic State of (in) Iraq and the Levant. The final “S” in ISIS does not translate to Syria because the word Syria is not in the original Arabic language. They use the term “al-Sham” which refers to an old swatch of territory that is known in English as “the Levant.” It isn’t just Syria, because ISIL also thinks they will control Lebanon and Palestine, which are included in the ancient “al-Sham” or “the Levant.”
Don’t forget Obama and our Sen. Wyden rightly voted against the Iraq war.
Diane Daiute
Sweet Home