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Puny Airstrikes Fail To Degrade And Destroy Islamic State
Investor's Business ^ | November 3, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 11/03/2014 10:29:14 AM PST by raptor22

U.S. officials report that more than 1,000 foreign fighters are streaming into Syria each month as a United Nations report says that the terrorist influx has reached an "unprecedented scale."

According to the new U.N. report, a lot more terrorist boots are on the ground these days as an "unbelievably small" — to use Secretary of State John Kerry's phrase — air campaign, which has taken months to do what should have been done in a day, has failed to achieve the administration's proclaimed goal: to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State.

More than 15,000 foreign fighters from as many as 80 countries have streamed into Syria and Iraq since 2010. The flow continues on "an unprecedented scale," according to the U.N. report, obtained by Britain's Guardian newspaper.

These fighters have come from such unlikely places as the Maldive Islands. The group's videos feature jihadists with Chilean, Norwegian and other backgrounds.

"There are instances of foreign terrorist fighters from France, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island operating together," the report notes.

An Islamic State video showed British hostage Alan Henning being beheaded by a fighter with a British accent. More than 500 British citizens are said to have traveled to the region since 2011.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alanhenning; chile; egypt; france; iran; iraq; ireland; isil; isis; isiswar; islamicstate; israel; kurdistan; lebanon; maldives; norway; obamanewisisstrategy; russia; syria; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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1 posted on 11/03/2014 10:29:14 AM PST by raptor22
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To: raptor22

Turn Syria into a “roach motel.”


2 posted on 11/03/2014 10:34:17 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: raptor22

It appears that the terrorists are confident of victory. In other words: ISIS farts in Obama’s general direction.


3 posted on 11/03/2014 10:34:47 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: raptor22

Vietnam was a “half-fast no win war” and this is a “quarter of a half-fast no win war”.

Obama may pick up the pace after the election, that’s a common time to increase military activity.

Just like Nam we’ll probably end up at a negotiating table with them sometime in the future because that’s what the Democrats and Republicans ended up pushing for in the end.


4 posted on 11/03/2014 10:34:48 AM PST by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: raptor22

0bama never wanted to eliminate the islamic state. Went on TV and got points for bombing them, then the media turned its attention away so the public would not notice the failure.


5 posted on 11/03/2014 10:36:17 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: raptor22

Anybody who believes the radical Muslim posing as our POTUS has any intention of seriously bombing his Islamo brothers is dreaming. The Islamo-Nazis never had it so good under this enemy of the United states Democrats put into office.


6 posted on 11/03/2014 10:47:33 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Not all Muslims are terrorists but all Muslims are potential terrorists.)
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To: raptor22

Raqqa is their Berlin.

Why isn’t it FLAT?!


7 posted on 11/03/2014 10:47:53 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (I'M WITH CRUZ!)
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To: raptor22

You’ve heard of the punic wars? Well these are the “puny” wars.

CC


8 posted on 11/03/2014 10:48:10 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Never attribute to malice that which can more easily be explained by incompetence or stupidity.)
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To: I want the USA back

Bingo. Obama does not want to stop his fellow islmaists.


9 posted on 11/03/2014 10:48:42 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: raptor22

Obama does not intend to destroy ISIS. Unfortunately, from his standpoint, the sham warfare he is waging necessarily results in a certain minimal level of lethality.


10 posted on 11/03/2014 10:48:45 AM PST by Elsiejay
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Elsiejay :"..the sham warfare he is waging necessarily results in a certain minimal level of lethality."

We bomb them at night ,where they aren't, nver where they live.
We arm and supply 'moderates (?)' who run away from battles , thereby re-arming and upgrading the enemy.
This is all about "OPTICS"( as OBama calls it),.. nothing about substance !!
He got badgered into participation by the public, and not his own conscience ; he supports the Caliphate movement.

11 posted on 11/03/2014 10:58:31 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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“more than 1,000 foreign fighters are streaming into Syria each month”

And Hussein is `whipping snakes’ to get them armed with US weapons.


12 posted on 11/03/2014 10:59:37 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: raptor22

This is reality when Americans want to go to War against (fill in the blank _________), with our Sunni Potus in charge.

Our Sunni Potus will make what LBJ and his rats didn’t do in Nam, look like War Lords.


13 posted on 11/03/2014 11:01:27 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Islam/ISIS = The Ebola of religious/political ideologies!)
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To: raptor22

ISIS/ISIL is a UK/US force, funded and aided by our middle eastern proxie states/dark money; they’re set up as a Hegelian antithesis for the UK/US to “fight” against.

This info has gone public, so now I see our news media / propagandists trying convince the conservative segment of the population that there are “good” and “bad” rebels, factions, and that we should be directly supporting the “good” factions to fight the “bad” ones.


14 posted on 11/03/2014 11:01:28 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: raptor22

They’re not meant to.

Covert Origins of ISIS
(ISIS is just the new name for Al-Qaeda in Iraq which the Feds started in Afghanistan after the Soviets invaded it in 1979.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI


15 posted on 11/03/2014 11:01:34 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Because Obama doesn’t want to win. He only wants the appearance of opposing them.


16 posted on 11/03/2014 11:08:50 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: raptor22
Puny Airstrikes Fail To Degrade And Destroy Islamic State

Until the B52s, B-2s, and B1Bs are carpet bombing those bastards, I won't believe they are serious. If I were Pres, nukes would definitely be on the tables, especially if the US is hit by a terrorist attack.

17 posted on 11/03/2014 11:16:09 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Are we really going to allow a kenyan bastard to take down OUR great Country?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Anybody who believes the radical Muslim posing as our POTUS has any intention of seriously bombing his Islamo brothers is dreaming

You may be right; but I believe Obama is such an America hater, that he will use any tool available to destroy this country.- Tom

18 posted on 11/03/2014 11:16:11 AM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

So ISIS is our fault?


19 posted on 11/03/2014 11:22:34 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (I'M WITH CRUZ!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Yeppers. It’s OUR Muzzie terrorist organization.


20 posted on 11/03/2014 11:25:34 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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