Posted on 10/26/2017 6:29:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Islamic State just lost its capital at Raqqa and with it the last of the terrorist group's fantasies of establishing a Middle East caliphate.
In recent years, ISIS has horrified global audiences with video clips of unspeakable atrocities. What sort of humans could behead, incinerate, drown, torture and blow up innocent civilians, mock and record such horror, and then narrate their macabre videos for a world audience?
How could such pre-modern psychopaths ever be defeated, given that in a matter of months ISIS had managed to overrun vast swaths of Iraq and Syria?
The zealotry of the Islamic State in celebrating the unthinkable added to its cult of invincibility. Young would-be jihadists from the Western world flocked to the group's Middle East compounds, eager to engage in viciousness as if it were the latest video game.
Dejected Middle Eastern armies seemed to have no answer for the medieval violence of ISIS. Impotent Western leaders either ignored or denied the group's homicidal appeal. Indeed, in 2014, pessimistic analysts were predicting that ISIS might soon carve out enough oil-rich parts of Iraq and Syria to spread its barbarism throughout the region.
But recently, the entire Islamic State project began going up in smoke almost as abruptly as it was born. It turned out that squadrons of American bombers were not impressed by ISIS threats and bombed to smithereens its command centers and headquarters.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis relaxed the rules of U.S. engagement and made it a veritable open season on Islamic State jihadists, while American forces trained entire new cadres of anti-ISIS fighters. Specialized drones and GPS-guided Western munitions made it almost impossible for ISIS leaders to escape constant attack.
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Mankind has probed the limits of cruelty but the boundries have yet to be defined. throughout recorded history you have Romans enjoying the public spectacle of humans being mauled and killed by wild animals, entire Chinese armies that were captured slaughtered by their victorious captors, Mongols surrounding huge area and killing every human within the circle, the systematic, efficient , sadistic Holocaust perpetuated by thos “cultured” Germans, the less efficient but equally brutal Rwanda genocide, and of course the recent barbaric actions of the jihadists who believe heaven awaits them as a reward for their crimes. The limits of cruelty and barbarity have not yet been defined. Woody Allen said it best. When accused of not acknowledging the enormity of the Holocaust and being a self hating Jew, he responded that there is absolutely no doubt that six million Jews were murdered, but never forget as well that records are meant to be broken.
...How could such pre-modern psychopaths ever be defeated...
Lots of things can be done when field commanders have discretion rather than politicians running the battlefield.
An old Vietnam vet reflects: “I wish we had been allowed to win in Vietnam”.
Romans always feared they would become soft-hearted.
So they promoted cruelty, to their detriment.
Americans always fear they will be seen as cruel.
Excessive empathy is having detrimental effects on America.
Now we should go after whoever funded, trained, and sustained ISIS during their brutal rampage, and visit some destruction upon them too.
Once of your paths will take you right back to the muslim Commander in Chief, poster boy for the “death to America” cult, the muslim marxist’s frog prince, BHO. The man who changed the rules of engagement from kill to catch and release, hobbling our military in many other ways while enabling his brethren.
He was a Ghazi operating from the White House, unbeknown to many, many, many many many, Americans right under their very noses.
The actions of ISIS are just a fast motion version of what Islam has been doing in slow motion for hundreds of years.
...in 2014, pessimistic analysts were predicting that ISIS might soon carve out enough oil-rich parts of Iraq and Syria to spread its barbarism throughout the region. But recently, the entire Islamic State project began going up in smoke almost as abruptly as it was born. It turned out that squadrons of American bombers were not impressed by ISIS threats and bombed to smithereens its command centers and headquarters. Secretary of Defense James Mattis relaxed the rules of U.S. engagement and made it a veritable open season on Islamic State jihadists, while American forces trained entire new cadres of anti-ISIS fighters. Specialized drones and GPS-guided Western munitions made it almost impossible for ISIS leaders to escape constant attack.
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The 'dust bin' of history is preparing a cubby for ISIS...
Another path leads to the doorstep of György Schwartz
yep....In my opinion, the two have a temporary merging in philosophy and purpose. The UN and the world of islam is larger, and Soros is just a tool in the larger nObama plan.
you are absolutely correct.....”The actions of ISIS are just a fast motion version of what Islam has been doing in slow motion for hundreds of years.”......
They are indeed the militant side of Islam operating or underground in all nations. Changing names doesn’t change the ideology one iotta...nor their intentions.
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