Posted on 05/25/2015 3:40:51 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Former UK Chief of Staff Lord Dannatt has called for a ground invasion against Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday, claiming that the cultural and security impact of the group calls for an international armed effort to expand beyond the current airstrike campaign.
"The capture and likely destruction of the 2,000-year-old Roman colonnades at Palmyra, Syria, by Islamic State constitutes a potential cultural crime on a gigantic scale," Dannatt wrote in the Daily Mail. "These majestic ruins represent thousands of years of human civilisation and there is now surely no doubting just how great a threat IS [ISIS - ed.] poses to civilization in the region and beyond."
Dannatt continues that ISIS could spread across Europe and the Middle East, returning to the "height of Islam" and Islamic conquest in Medieval times - and further.
"Although the United States might think it enjoys the security of the Atlantic between itself and where ISIS wants to expand, it cannot forget the domestic terrorist threat," he stated. "In light of this terrifying scenario, how much longer can Britain and the US continue to show such a lack of commitment to defeating ISIS militarily?"
Dannatt insists that the airstrike campaign, codenamed Operation Inherent Resolve, has failed so far to prevent ISIS spreading.
"Military history tells us that while air strikes can change the terms of battle, they cannot bring a decision," he urges. "We have now reached a point when we must think the previously unthinkable and consider that British troops, acting as part of an international coalition, may be required to mount a ground campaign in Iraq and Syria."
He proposes an international fighting force of about 5,000 soldiers...ISIS - unlike the Taliban or other "insurgents," as he calls them - is using "conventional" military tactics not unlike a regular Army.
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Will the UK be hitching rides in this venture?
Maybe if we just ignore the problem, it will just go away. /s
Yes. We’ve been doing quite a bit of that since the old days. Sad how many times the problem bit us in the ass, instead of going away, though. Bad show. (lordly guffaw)
"The capture and likely destruction of the 2,000-year-old Roman colonnades at Palmyra, Syria, by Islamic State constitutes a potential cultural crime on a gigantic scale," Dannatt wrote in the Daily Mail. "These majestic ruins represent thousands of years of human civilisation and there is now surely no doubting just how great a threat IS [ISIS - ed.] poses to civilization in the region and beyond."Perhaps heartlessly, regarding ISIS' destruction of pre-Islamic remains, I say, 'that's too bad'.
We'll watch on the Tee Vee and you Brits send your troops, aircraft carriers, heavy units, etc. In fact, we'll sell you all the munitions you wanna buy.
JMHo
The crimes against archaeology are nothing compared to the crimes against humanity. But, whatever it takes to get some people’s attention.....
OK, suppose an expeditionary force is assembled and landed in Arabia. Further suppose they kill people and break things to the point that ISIS says, “we give up”.
What then? How is Arabia to be governed, and by whom?
Just like lend/lease and all that.
Arabia? ISIS conquered Arabia?
Perhaps imperialism is the answer. The British have experience in that regard. Let his Lordship have a go at it.
I think he means that big area where people speak Arabic and the dominant religion is a death cult started by an epileptic pedophile.
Ahhhhh! Arab World.
It's about time England either cleans up the mess it made without the help of those who didn't help make the mess or goes ahead and admits they're helpless twits except for their ability to ignore financial fraud and criminal money laundering on a massive scale. Hell, ISIS is probably running their cash through London just like all the other Iz Lame scum do.
If they're so anxious to go to war against ISIS they should deploy their military in Brixton and work their way North.
Dear Yank:
Lady Ashton’s panties are bunched. She won’t come down from that tree, even for her favorite chew toy, not until it’s time for her daily pre-dawn prayer, and this is all your doing. Please don’t call it the “Muslim mess”. It upsets her Ladyship greatly. Try instead “the newly diversified British mess”.
Once the sun never set on our empire. Now it never rises on our island. It is a mess. Such a dreadful mess. But none of it is Muslim. They have their vast majority of decent, hard working fellows, who get very irate whenever anyone ever blames anything on them, especially street violence.
So he wants British and American soldiers to die for the Iranian friends of his free traitor bosses in the City. He should pack up and go himself. Let Iran continue to fight with ISIS alone.
Syria is certainly not worth much. Iraqi oil fields could be seized to pay for operations. As a muzzie homeland, beyond the oil and antiquities, it’s not worth much either.
Introduce smallpox into Iraq’s and Syria’s Muslim areas. Send them all to Hell.
I married Isis on the 5th day of May, but I could not stay with her very long..
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