The numbers of SDF involved are stated at 50,000 Kurds and 23,000 Arabs.
If ISIS is not terrified they are stupid. (they probably are, but are still terrified)
May this end quickly.
isn’t a “technical” just a toyota Pickup with a .30 cal in the back ?
We might actually get some real shock and awe instead of the “compassionate shock and awe” that Bush claimed to have wrought.
What’s that, five years’ worth of the Fraud’s “strikes” with leaflets dropped beforehand to spare his terrorist BFF’s?
We’re using GBU-39’s and Hellfire missiles. We’re not destroying the city. Lucky for Raqqa Russia has never tried to destroy ISIS. They prefer the binary question of choose ISIS or Assad.
I will never forget the day we declared War on Syria.
Oh wait..... What?
Never mind.
it has also left large sections of Raqqa in tatters...
Unfortunate to say the least, but completely unavoidable.
I hate to see kids, women and Christians killed.
And since I’m a Christian, non combatant/terrorist muslims too.
THANKS obama.
Terrible, we should have warned them a few weeks in advance so the terrorists could flee.
32 fighter bombers and helos using precision guided isn’t “Devastating Raqqa with heavy airstikes”.
If we aren’t using B-52 with iron bombs, we aren’t serious about this.
Like 9/11 the destruction of ISIS was a golden opportunity that like 9/11, we will waste. That wasn’t just an opportunity to destroy ISIS, it was a chance to make them into an example that would shock the world and remind them that the USA is very dangerous to screw with.
But we will piss away this offered on a plate opportunity with deft little pinprick strikes that nobody will be impressed with.
COIN sucks. It always sucks, it’s never worked. Only a massive, insulting display of power will work here.