Saudi Arabia has said it will not retaliate and wants Iraq to "take the necessary measures." Baghdad is under pressure from the United States to rein in Iran-backed militias.
It was inevitable, and predicted by the learned arguing against the Iraq war actually. Invading would open it up to factionalism, and empower Iran, as Iraq and Iran were mortal enemies after having fought one of the bloodiest wars in history, the Iran Iraq war, in which over a million were killed. (The US played both sides, providing weapons and intel and such, we also orchestrated Saddam taking power, but that’s another story.)
Saddam was fond of human wave attacks, WWI style. The Iranians weren’t all that much better either.
To make matters worse, after they declared mission accomplished after their shock and awe bullshit weeks after the start of the war, they disbanded the security forces, to De-Baath-ify the country, de baath party that is, and that sent the country into a violence spiral, also dumping all of those security dudes onto the streets, all heavily armed.
It was inevitable, and predicted by the learned arguing against the Iraq war actually. Invading would open it up to factionalism, and empower Iran, as Iraq and Iran were mortal enemies after having fought one of the bloodiest wars in history, the Iran Iraq war, in which over a million were killed. (The US played both sides, providing weapons and intel and such, we also orchestrated Saddam taking power, but that’s another story.)
Saddam was fond of human wave attacks, WWI style. The Iranians weren’t all that much better either.
To make matters worse, after they declared mission accomplished after their shock and awe bullshit weeks after the start of the war, they disbanded the security forces, to De-Baath-ify the country, de baath party that is, and that sent the country into a violence spiral, also dumping all of those security dudes onto the streets, all heavily armed.