The Taking of Ramadi: Behind ISIS's Bloody Assault

The Taking of Ramadi: Behind ISIS's Bloody Assault

Almost a year after the fall of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, ISIS has captured Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest province, Anbar, where 1,300 American soldiers and Marines died during the Iraq War. ISIS now controls the two major cities in the province, Ramadi and Fallujah, as well as 90…

The Fiscal Times

This is a very thoughtful article about all this. My thought is that we could be witnessing the end of the Iraqi government this summer or the beginning of Iran as being totally in control of a much weakened Iraqi government.

It was interesting what Bob Baer ex CIA operative in the middle east said on Cnn when Ramadi fell. One of his comments was that the Iraqi government is basically over because of this because if they send in the Shia Militias to retake Ramadi that it is going to collapse the government completely. The reason for this is that Iraq is mostly Sunni to the north of Baghdad and mostly Shia from Baghdad to the South. And since Ramadi is the capital of Anbar province which is majority Sunni and 500,000 people. So, if Shia militias go into Ramadi and kill a whole lot of Sunni civilians like Shia militias often do then this will completely unravel the government and turn all Sunnis permanently against the government for allowing this to happen. 

Also, I just noticed that ISIS has also taken Fallujah in this article too which is much closer to Baghdad than Ramadi is. Fallujah is 73.2 kilometers from Baghdad or basically 45 1/2 miles from Baghdad.