Ed Krayewski on Who’s to Blame for Iraq

For Iraq, June has been the cruelest month. The
jihadist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made
incredible gains in Iraq.  On June 5, ISIS fighters
briefly seized Samarra before being pushed back by Iraqi
government forces. On June 10, ISIS seized Iraq’s “second
city,” Mosul, on the crossroads between Iraq and Syria, another
area of operations for ISIS. On June 15, ISIS claimed have captured
and killed 1,700 Iraqi soldiers in Tal Afar. A few days later they
attacked a major oil refinery north of Baghdad, one that was
responsible for about 25 percent of the country’s domestic oil
consumption. As Iraq verges on the brink of civil war, writes Ed
Krayewski, there’s a cornucopia of Iraqi and foreign figures who
could be blamed for the unfolding disaster.

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