Posted on 08/23/2014 1:43:45 PM PDT by GonzoII
The United States was said to be considering air strikes aimed at eliminating individual leaders of Islamic State as Turkey came under mounting pressure to stem the flow of jihadists across its border into Syria.
As Washington debated extending air strikes into Syria on Saturday, senior British politicians urged Ankara to act to block recruits from the UK and other countries from entering Syria via Turkey, en route to joining Islamic State (formerly Isis). This weekend large numbers of Isis jihadists were trying to secure greater control of the border area, pushing northwards in armoured trucks looted from abandoned Iraqi military bases.
Isis wants to establish dominance in the area in order to make it easier for potential recruits to gain safe passage and to allow the movement of vital supplies, including weapons and oil. The route has been used by most of the foreign fighters who have joined the cause, and is believed to have been taken by several hundred of those who have joined Isis from the UK.
US officials said that there was now a "new context" for confronting Isis and cutting off its supply routes following the beheading of US journalist James Foley. In a sign that Washington may widen the field of its air strikes, the White House said it was ready to "take action" against any threat to America in Iraq or Syria.
Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said: "If we see plotting against Americans, if we see a threat to the US emanating from anywhere, we stand ready to take action against that threat. We have made it very clear time and again that if you come after Americans, we're going to come after you, wherever you are and that's what's going to guide our planning in the days...
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Gee I’ve an idea. Let’s telegraph them to let them know we’re coming so when we get there they’ll be gone. Kind of like the 18 months we gave Saddam to hide his WMD’s that we still haven’t found.
Stupid is, as stupid does.
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Loose lips sink ships
The news should be: we glassed the place yesterday. ISIS is gone. /s/
When you get a flea infestation, you are not done until you remove all the eggs...
Indeed. As if PR is the goal.
Unlike the Taliban & even AQ, IS is spread much more widely across the muslim SUNNI world & the globe in fact. Approx. 85% of muslim population is Sunni. Iraq, Syria & the Lebanon surprisingly hold IS concentration in numbers & those who have active combat experience. But the problem is essentially global. At least in those IS concentrated areas for now we need to ‘nip it in the bud’ as they say. But equally ensure it doesn’t raise its ugly head or regroup elsewhere, especially under a different name or umbrella.
Why does a WH, that rails against war, keep committing acts of war?
I know and IMO it has only just begun to grow. This is a movement that it going to absorb most other terrorist groups and attract millions of Muslims who have never been part of any radical group.
‘Organization’ then.
Yeah, sure, and Obama will hit a hole in one during his next “working vacation”.
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