Posted on 10/03/2015 10:42:41 AM PDT by amorphous
One question thats been asked repeatedly over the past thirteen months is why Washington has been unable to achieve the Pentagons stated goal of degrading and defeating ISIS despite the fact that the battle pits the most advanced air force on the planet against what amounts to a ragtag band of militants running around the desert in basketball shoes.
Those of a skeptical persuasion have been inclined to suggest that perhaps the US isnt fully committed to the fight. Explanations for that suggestion range from the mainstream (the White House is loathe to get the US into another Mid-East war) to the conspiratorial (the CIA created ISIS and thus doesnt want to destroy the group due to its value as a strategic asset).
The implication in all of this is that a modern army that was truly determined to destroy the group could likely do so in a matter of months if not weeks and so once Russia began flying sorties from Latakia, the world was anxious to see just how long the various rebel groups operating in Syria could hold up under bombardment by the Russian air force.
The answer, apparently, is less than a week.
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We will know when Russia is winning, because ISIS will be demanding a truce/cease fire.
Islamists typically do that when they need time to rearm and get reinforcements.
Putin seems to be using real weapons, while Obama was just having our military do fly-overs.
As much as we should not believe everything the Russians say, I think there is more truth here than anything the obama administration is saying. I think that obama has been lenient with ISIS because it is Iran’s para-military arm to destabilize the entire middle east. While Russia is a business partner with Iran, it also has long tern business and strategic relationship with Syria.
We used the fear of "Collateral Damage" excuse.-Tom
It will be very embarrassing for the US (not, unfortunately, only an embarrassment to the idiot with the woman’s hand up his butt) if Russia wipes them out in a week or two. Someone else may be holding “the worlds’ only superpower” crown in the eyes of the world by the end of the month, true or not. Pooty-poot really thought this out well, and it’s only going to cost him the price of a large military exercise.
If this is true then it goes to show Obama never tried to do anything to harm ISIS. Which wouldn’t surprise me.
“We will know when Russia is winning, because ISIS will be demanding a truce/cease fire.”
They probably won’t bother, Russia knows that one too.
You mean the purpose of the military is not to kill people and break things? The Russians need to get with the times. The enemy just needs jobs (Harf Harf Harf).
If ISIS’s destruction can be substantiated then everyone can be certain once and for all who’s team Obama plays for.
Wake up America! Obama is a muslim radical and the people with old money and those with new big money don't think of themselves as Americans first. A billionaire in New York has more in common with a Saudi sheik than he does with his neighbors down the street and he probably visits London and Paris than he does Denver or Seattle.
Obama loves and has killed for his country also..just not the USA
Being POTUS is only a job to him, a means to an end, and his heart lies with the Caliphate.
Obama said ISIS is the JV team.
My theory is it is inline with the west's (and Saudi's) desire for a pipeland from M.E. oil fields to Europe. It's in Russia's interest to block it and maintain control of Europe's energy supplies.
As for you president and Iran, I think it has more to do with an unsettling, deep hatred for America and all Christain believers.
Those rebels are in Kiev.
How did we manage to hit a hospital? I thought our officials said that Russia was using dumb bombs.
if putin wraps this up in short order we are look even more foolish
They will go to Europe and be welcomed with open arms.
“If the CIA created ISIS, what was the purpose. I havent found the answer to this question.”
The Qatar/Saudi pipeline to Europe.
That is what Syria is ALL about. And Ukraine is part of it.
ISIS was created to help overthrow an already unstable Syria.
All you have to know is what happened in Libya, to know that the Obamunists tried it again in Syria.
More from the article:
"Now obviously one must consider the source here, but Kremlin spin tactics aside, one cannot help but be amazed with the pace at which this is apparently unfolding. If any of the above is even close to accurate, it means that Russia is on schedule to declare victory over ISIS (and everyone else it looks like) in a matter of weeks, which would not only be extremely embarrassing for Washington, but would also effectively prove that the US has never truly embarked on an honest effort to rid Syria of the extremist groups the Western media claims are the scourge of humanity."
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