[NYer]

Control of territory is an essential precondition for the Islamic State’s authority in the eyes of its supporters. This map, adapted from the work of the Institute for the Study of War, shows the territory under the caliphate’s control as of January 15, along with areas it has attacked. Where it holds power, the state collects taxes, regulates prices, operates courts, and administers services ranging from health care and education to telecommunications.

[NYer]

The Islamic State awaits the army of “Rome,” whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse.

According to Fox News, ISIS just burned 45 people alive in Iraq.

Catholic ping!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Want to Understand ISIS?

NO! KILL THEM!

I'll leave it to the bleeding heart liberals to psycho-analyze the animals.

[longfellow]

Everything I need to know about islam I learned on 911.

Boy was that bumper sticker true.

[Former Proud Canadian]

The US administration believes that killing these people will not win the war. Their strategy, apparently, is to initiate a jobs program for those who might be tempted to join ISIS.

May God help us.

[JudyinCanada]

JUST READ THE QURAN. IT WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT’S GOING ON.

[I want the USA back]

I don’t want to understand dung beetle cadavers.

[Yosemitest]

Time to bring back Napalm and see if Napalm will STICK to ISIS.

[I want the USA back]

I don’t want to understand dung beetle cadavers.

[Kartographer]

"Islam in a man is as dangerous as hydrophobia (rabies) in a dog." Winston Churchill

[TigersEye]

Want to Understand ISIS?

No. I just want them dead.

[Dick Bachert]

Will someone EXPLAIN that to THIS airhead? Not that she'd UNDERSTAND IT!

[AbnSarge]

A note about the map -
across Western Iraq (Anbar Province)there are thin dark-gray lines showing “support zones” or ISIS free-movement zones. Those lines are the main roads, which is the only place there are any people (except for the occasional wandering shepherd and his raggedy flock). The open areas between have nothing, nothing, nothing. Just wide open areas of uninhabitable desert. They might as well color that in dark gray as well, as ISIS could freely travel there as well, but have no reason at all to do so.

[SaxxonWoods]

Good article, read it earlier today.

ISIS will destroy, oppress and kill until its members are killed. New members must be killed as they arise. Less members means less death of innocents, so the less ISIS the better at any given time.

That isn’t easy to do but it’s simple to understand and their numbers can be lowered enough to degrade them from being a major threat.

We can start on that in about 23 months. Which means there will be a lot of killing to do.

[fireman15]

From the article, “What we’re facing is a kind of religious fanaticism on a grand scale that might seem small fry, but which has global ambitions not just of murder, mayhem and genocide but of total destruction.

In other words, they are looking forward to the end of the world and would pull the trigger themselves if they could.”

And Obama is letting the Iranians develop the bomb. What could go wrong?

[hondact200]

just drop a a decent bomb on the area that turns the people to vapor and the infrastructure is left intact. deal with them quick and swiftly now, not later on at the doorstep of the people in America.

[9thLife]

Want to Understand ISIS?

No.

[Organic Panic]

I don’t care about understanding them. Destroy them.

[metmom]

No, I do not want to *understand* ISIS.

It’s enough for me to know that they want to kill us and that I don’t want them to.

Therefore they need to be dealt with in a way that they understand, which means pounding them into oblivion so that they CANNOT come back for another try.