The "L" in ISIL means "Levant" - and it is Obama's signal to attack and destroy Isreal by proxy.
Well... Obama did say he was transparent.
I think you could end the ISIS war machine in thirty days, without dropping a single bomb.
Go ID all funding that goes toward the ISIS machine. Once you establish the charities or businessmen involved...start stealing their money...ALL of it. Move it into an account and tell the individuals involved that they can have their money back after ten years of non-existence of ISIS is noted.
Touch every single individual....no matter who they are or how little they gave to ISIS. They apparently can’t handle wealth....so they don’t need the money (any of it).
My guess is no member of the Senate will dare agree with this because they themselves get campaign funding from the same people. That’s the root of this entire problem.
I read the article, and it did not name names. Is Putin threatening to reveal names in order to pressure other nations?
No wonder Obama was so testy today - his boys are really going to get hit where they live.
If the oil tankers come to a halt, it is going to cause massive problems for ISIS.
If the funders of ISIS are exposed it will include the Saudi Government and some of the world’s richest men - who have been buying off Western politicians as well.
Those corrupt politicians in turn use their public treasuries to further support ISIS (though not directly or openly). Obama, Erdogan, probably Hollande (although the Russians will probably not expose that if he gets on the right side now).
My spousal unit and I both have been saying lately that Pooty Poot has been making more sense than our own leaders. Scary.
Putin needs to publish the list.
I saw a report on the the oil tanker strike - it only took a few planes (4 ea. A-10s, 2 ea. AC-130s), to destroy over 100 oil tankers. Apparently, hundreds are clustered at the same spot every day waiting to load. Like fish in a barrel.
That article estimated that about a thousand trucks were involved in the trade, so at that rate, they could shut it down almost immediately. Hit it again tomorrow, and few will show up to work the next day. Hit them for a week anywhere they are seen, and there won’t be enough left to go back to work, even if they wanted to.
Without any fuel supply, trucks stop running, and food stops being delivered - total collapse in a couple of weeks, probably with unacceptable civilian impact.
Without the money from oil sales, they could get by for a while on credit and theft, but fighters might not be paid at the end of the month. Foreign sponsors would have to ramp up their spending.
If we had really tried to crush ISIS, they would have been crushed long ago. Before Paris. Before the next one.
The "L" in ISIL means "Levant" - and it is Obama's signal to attack and destroy Isreal by proxy.
I too am fairly convinced that if the PTB wanted ISIS/ISIL/DAESH rendered impotent, it could be done so through the money spigot.
Mr. niteowl77