Alsheb wrote:Bulrosia wrote:Perhaps best said if this was against a modern military like Israel and even the Saudis, but Iraq and Syria? Syria always maintained a large military due to it's regional confrontation with Israel, but the civil war coupled with the rebels capturing some Syrian army equipment, and the Syrian army is not in it's golden age, shall we say.
The Iraqi army, despite huge money spent on new equipment since 2003, was simply a national armed police force, dealing with relatively low-level insurgency with aid from coalition forces. The rise of ISIL shown how dishonourable many Iraqi generals were by abandoning Mosul with few, if any, bullets fired. Many Iraqi soldiers simply signed up to get a regular pay check every month.
As for other nations, it is widely reported that many Jordanians, being a nation that is majority Sunni, support ISIL and its underlying ideals.
I personally disgusted at the whole Middle East. The Saudis Wahhabists (America's Jihad-supporting allies) are too busy bombing Shias in Yemen to put an end to ISIL, and by maintaining one of the largest defence budgets in the region, I believe they have the power to do so.
Which is the terrible truth about Saudi Arabia and the Gulf emirates. They don't care about the Arab people or about the prosperity of the Middle East. They care about their own wealth and influence alone. And the US encourages them.
Indeed. While I have no source for this, it seems that from the majority of Muslims I know personally, they all dislike Saudi Arabia.



