OK, there is this unpopular government we tried to prop up that has an insurgency, thousands of government troops (one estimate is 90,000 police and troops) just melted away before the onslaught. I'm plenty old enough to remember Vietnam that had a similar story and the minority eventually won, or did they. Vietnam (or at least southern Vietnam) seems to have become a valued trading partner.
The case of Iraq and Syria may be different in that the insurgency , called ISIS,* seems to be Sunni religious fanatics bound to establish Islamic sharia law. As I write this, the insurgency is advancing on Baghdad. We'll have to see how the government troops react there.
Will ISIS try to take over the entire Iraq area, including the Kurdish area and the majority Shiite area? Will Iran feel compelled to enter the fray to support the Shiite area? And to what extent will the U.S. re-enter the fray? We'll just have to see.
*ISIS stands for Islamic State Of Iraq and al-Sham (Syria and Lebanon) said to be an al-Qaeda group: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10892898/Iraq-crisis-Q-and-A-Who-or-what-is-ISIS-Is-it-part-of-al-Qaeda.html
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