Posted on 05/24/2015 10:41:10 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
This week the world received a wake-up call when the Islamic State seized control of Ramadi and Palmyra in Syria. Obama’s so-called JV team just made military forces abandoned the capital of Iraq’s largest province handing a defeat to team Obama’s strategy to defeat the extremist group. Not stopping to celebrate victory, ISIS forces are heading east to attack retreating Iraqi forces. While Iraq talks about gathering pro-government forces the Islamic State is heading to Fallujah to set up a launching point for Baghdad.
The world was shocked when the Islamic State militants captured the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra. The ancient city dates to the second millennium BC as a caravan stop. The city was mentioned in the annals of the Assyrian kings and may have been referenced in the Bible. It is listed as a World Heritage site serving as a center Aramaic Greco-Roman cultures. Syrians have been working feverishly removing ancient artifacts from the historic Syrian city before the extremists destroy or sell them on the black market. However, if the Islamic State takes a little time off from the slaughter of Christians, its sub-human members will destroy any artifacts have been left behind.
General Dempsey summed up the situation, saying Iraqis weren’t driven out of Ramadi; they drove themselves. Iraqi security force commanders made a tactical decision to withdraw from Ramadi to a more defensible position near Habbaniyah, leaving behind Sunni civilians to the mercy of the militants. More likely than not the Iraqi forces are not ready to handle an organized attack without outside help. Sunnis will see this as tribal loyalty over nationalism so it will not end well.
The Pentagon is confident Iraqi security forces will take back the city in the near term. How? Obama has insisted that no American troops...
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Not denying reality, giving ISIS enough room to grow.
Jarrett and Huma's plans coming to fruition.
Let the mayor of Baltimore run the Iraqi Defense.
Giving those who wish to destroy the space to do so.
That sums it all up distinctly...
I encourage everyone to view that four minutes clip as to why we are where we are, and the burning question “who got to them or what got to them”.
The White house denies reality becuse the White House is the American Headquarters office of the Moslem Brotherhood.
The reality that no one wants to admit is that Barry Hussein Soetoro aka Obama is a muslim.
Exactly! Read “The Betrayal Papers” to see how Obama has gone over to the other side.
the only ones denying reality is the left and the msm
the white hut has been fully on board with furthering islam across the globe for the last 6+ years
their goal is to blow on the embers of the caliphate until 0ttoman empire II is birthed from the flames (with iran being at the center of it ... with nukes)
how can anyone that claims to be informed, not see this coming?
Local ISIS members got to them who threatened to wipe out every family member.
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