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ISIS militants ‘advance towards Damascus’
Al Arabiya ^ | 5/26/15

Posted on 05/26/2015 3:29:00 AM PDT by markomalley

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To: ReaganGeneration2

What’s that got to do with what I asked?


21 posted on 05/26/2015 6:55:36 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: dfwgator

I didn’t know that was in the works. Can you elaborate?


22 posted on 05/26/2015 6:57:19 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

Just speculation. Perhaps Iran and ISIS aren’t the enemies people make them out to be.


23 posted on 05/26/2015 7:32:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Truth29
The only reason that ISIS is expanding and doing so well militarily with lots of American equipment is because Obama doesn’t want to stop them

You greatly underestimate them, and the situation that gives rise to them.

Militarily, I agree they represent a minor challenge, and their forces could be destroyed fairly quickly by an MEU with appropriate air and logistical support.

But their success is not principally military. The people of Northern Arabia have been denied their preferred means of social organization for almost 100 years (or, more exactly, the means of social organization they were deprived of in 1919-1921 and which loss they have been taught explains their shame and their poverty).

After ISIS is removed by force (if that were to happen), the problem of how to govern a primitive muslim population that wants a caliph will remain.

24 posted on 05/26/2015 7:41:23 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: Netz
The US should side with the only friendly, truly Democratic and free state in the region, Israel

The US should be free to choose its friends and its alliances, and it should not be swayed by threats.

25 posted on 05/26/2015 7:43:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

>>Study the Prophecy of the seven Shepherds very close.<<

?? Could you elaborate just a tad?


26 posted on 05/26/2015 8:12:03 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

The Prophecy can be found in Micah 5:5


27 posted on 05/26/2015 8:19:46 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: StoneWall Brigade

K...thanx


28 posted on 05/26/2015 9:10:18 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: StoneWall Brigade

K...thanx


29 posted on 05/26/2015 9:10:20 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

I forgot to add verse six sorry.


30 posted on 05/26/2015 9:17:19 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: SaveFerris

Well, well, well...that didn’t take long. In Isaiah 17 it also mentions “The cities of Aroer are forsaken.” The old city of Aroer would be present day in Jordan’s territory. The area is south of Ammon. Wonder what will be transpiring in that area soon?

http://www.bible-history.com/geography/ancient-israel/ot/aroer.html


31 posted on 05/26/2015 1:24:47 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: markomalley; Biggirl; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ..
The city's probably infiltrated with sleeper cells, so when the assault starts, it will be everywhere at once.
Don't get the idea that Lurch will express derision with another "hell of a pinpoint operation" regarding Assad's regime. We know he won't, because he hasn't done so during the four years of chemical weapons, barrel bombs, and indiscriminate shooting and killing by regime forces and its allied militias.
Thanks markomalley.

32 posted on 05/26/2015 1:52:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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