Posted on 06/09/2015 8:25:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Islamic State militants staged attacks near Baghdad and the Libyan city of Surt on Tuesday, underscoring the group’s persistent strength on both fronts despite a monthslong American-led air campaign against it in Syria and Iraq.
In both countries, the United States and other Western powers are struggling to find effective partners to help engage the Islamic State, or even contain it.
In Libya, the capture of the power plant means the Islamic State can threaten to cut off electricity to parts of the central and western regions of the country.
In Iraq, the attack on the council building in Amariya al Falluja on Tuesday underscored the Islamic State’s sustained ability to strike even inside tightly controlled government territory.
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I paid for the MOABs. I want the MOABs used.
Anything short of carpet bombing will not work.
ISIS has a strategy. We don’t.
that’s for sure “we came, we saw, he died’.
there are so many things to use against pantsuit one doesn’t know where to start.
i know much of it is desert, but still how does a 40000 strong army wreak havoc in three countries?
You nailed it.
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500lb JDAMS were not designed as anti-personnel weapons.
We have no dog in that fight. It is no threat to this country if we would get these moslems either out of our coutry or isolated into controlled isolatio ares. I don’t want to hear “ But They are coming here!!” They are not coming here if we say NO!! But we have to stop this self suicide of immigration of these moslems.This is a Christian Nation!!
By the way , air campaigns are wothless if ISIS is in a city of 500,000 like Ramadi!! What a joke.
Now you need to know that those Sunni tribes that were going to fight Isis with the Iranian Shias— had a big meeting last Wednesday. Guess what? They all pledged allegiance to ISIS!!. There is no coalition and in particular ,there is no coalition of Anbar sinni tribes!! NONE!! It all went to ISIS!! We should leave — seal our borders and make NUKES!!
I have heard about 15 air strikes per day in Iraq.
We’re not making an effort there at all. It should be 500+.
ISIS terror group kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians from a people-smugglers’ caravan in Libya last week, a U.S. defense official confirmed.........convoy was ambushed by militants south of Tripoli before dawn this past Wednesday morning.
Everyone who responded was asked about the Koran and their religious observance in an attempt ‘to catch Christians pretending to be Muslims’
U.N. envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon has warned that the country only has enough money to pay salaries for another six weeks,
....”air campaigns are wothless if ISIS is in a city of 500,000 like Ramadi”....
Which is why ISIS continues to control Mosul from a year ago.
Yes Sir. Why waste any more money on these bastards. CLOSE THE DAMNED BORDERS!!
...”We’re not making an effort there at all. It should be 500+.”.....
That would “look too much like we’re at war” to the Iraqi’s....we’re ONLY to assist them ...to loose the war???
How many ‘times have we trained’ the Iraqi Armies now?......they seem to be unable to defeat ISIS...rather continue to play in “tribal mode”.
The only "strategy" that's going to work against these animals is American boots on the ground, sharing the risk with Muslim allies in each of these countries.
When we did that in Iraq, things got better. When we cut and run, things went to pieces, and the blame for that rests squarely on 0bama.
These countries, individually, simply don't have what it takes, in terms of leadership skills and military equipment, to go it alone against fanatical militants who are being supplied and strengthened by money and manpower and equipment which is pouring in from outside their borders.
This Daesh/ISIS "movement" is too strong and well-funded for any one country to defeat. Leadership must be shown, both in the Muslim world and in America.
The destruction of ISIS can only come about as a result of American resolve, blood, and treasure, shared equally with millions of Muslims who are willing to fight beside us, in the hope of living in a semblance of a modern, tolerant society.
The alternative is to be ruled over by murderous zealots whose heads are still stuck in the Dark Ages and who want to dictate how every Muslim man, woman, and child should live.
Until America embraces this noble yet monumentally arduous task, the ISIS threat will continue to grow until it swallows the entire Muslim world. At that point, the whole civilized world will be forced to deal with it.
This is WW III folks, and it's high time that we set about the task of winning it.
Anyone who thinks that anything substantial can be done without American boots on the ground over there is simply detached from reality, and in a state of total denial.
I don't think there's a President, Democratic or Republican, who has the balls to admit that this is what is necessary. The world, including America, can't handle the truth.
America must, once again, lead the world into a new future, convincing the moderate Muslim community that this is a threat which must be destroyed now, so that their children and grandchildren can live their lives with at least a chance of peace and a measure of freedom.
I wish so much that this fight wasn't imperative, but it simply is, and nobody wants to face it.
We could have sat there with our thumbs up our a&&es and watched the world burn-- sort of like what we have been doing right now under Obama.
When you tell your adversaries in advance that you're pulling back on a date certain they will wait you out. You don't telegraph anything to your enemy and expect to win. The stark truth is that Obama blew it; he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. And we are now paying the price for his blunder, his arrogance, and his ineptitude.
And you're right that the country doesn't want to hear or deal with the truth. The longer you let bad thing go on, the harder they are to deal with.
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