JUST A THOUGHT - THE 'LIBERATION OF RAQQA FROM IS SHOULD NOT MEAN'S OCCUPATION BY AMERICA AND ITS PROXIES! PART 2.

Including the likelihood of becoming refuges from their homes. 

The madness of the current situation seems beyond all logic. 

That the instability and ethnic conflict, whether under the rule of the the murderous 'Islamic State', or the legitimate but compromised or ineffectual Iraqi government, should become the daily and ordinary life and fate of ordinary people. 

Whether they be 'Kurds', 'Shias', 'Sunni', 'Christians', 'Turkmen', et al, why, you might ask, can people not accept and be allowed to be just that, people? 

To be Iraqis. Not necessarily, Iraqi Kurds, Iraqi Sunnis, Iraqi Shias, Iraqi Christians, Iraqi Jews, Iraqi Yazidis, but just, Iraqis. 

Just ordinary humans? Of course, until they begin to do so, the inter-communal and inter-ethnic and inter- and intra-religious conflicts will continue.

Move on to the latest 'liberated' region in the Iraq/Syria conflict zone, that of the Syrian city of Raqqa. 

A city which has, because of  the aspiring 'Islamic State' , curse be upon them, had become the 'capital' of IS. 

IS moved into Raqqa and make its then citizens its prisoners. 

Raqqa effectively became a prison camp or concentration camp for all of its residents; especially those who actively and even covertly opposed 'Islamic State's' rule.

That was until the American supported 'Syrian Free Army' and Kurdish proxies, recently 'liberated' it from IS. 

By liberation, we can substitute the destruction of Raqqa by American bombs and artillery, and 'mopping up' operations by their proxy armies. 

Raqqa has not only been 'liberated' from its IS occupiers, but also from its civilian population. 


Like Mosul in Iraq, or Kobani before it, it has been destroyed in order to save it or to retake it. 

To be continued.