Who says there's no good news? The Orcs fight one another now

Iraqi Official: Sunni Insurgents, Baathists Fighting One Another

Sunni insurgents who are making their way across Iraq in a drive towards the nation’s capital clashed with their Baathist allies this week, Iraq security officials said Saturday.

Citing unnamed Iraqi security officials, the New York Times reports that the Sunni forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and their Baathist allies fought one another in western Kirkuk late this week. An unnamed witness said the two factions fought over gas and oil trucks.

An Iraqi security official told the Times that ISIS tried to disarm the Baathists before eight Baathists and nine ISIS militants were killed in subsequent fighting.

They fought over gas and oil trucks? That means they were killing each other over money. Which is as satisfactory a reason, from our perspective, as any other.

ISIS, Baathists, what's the diff?

They already are in politics and viciousness the Orcs of the earth, and like the Orcs of Middle Earth, they are as liable to turn on one another as their other enemies.