Battle For Mosul Draws To A Close.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4680954/ISIS-fanatics-use-FAMILIES-human-shields-Mosul.html

As the battle for Mosul draws to an end, I wonder if all those able bodied refugees will be returning to rebuild their city?

[Baldric]

///I wonder if all those able bodied refugees will be returning to rebuild their city?///

Economic Migrants please, not Refugees. And no, they will leave it to the Women they left behind, based on the fact very few Women were visible in pictures of these Economic Migrants.

[emmie]

who knows, there is little left to rebuild - most of the place has been destroyed in the fighting.

[ichkeria]

I do hope that those shameless excuses for humanity who had the temerity to flee the fighting will be immediately sent back to rebuild their city brick by brick.
I hate to tell you this, but I would be amazed if this admittedly very good piece of news means that peace is about to descend on Iraq.

[Bazile]

If only this was the end of the conflict and the threat of further conflict was eliminated .

[anotheoldgit]

emmie

/// who knows, there is little left to rebuild ///

Isn't that why it needs rebuilding?

[anotheoldgit]

Bazile

Yes if only? But at least it's a start.

And as the great Winston Churchill once said:

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning".