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.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
I Don’t buy the Alex Jones/RT BS. Just like Russia’s claims here, probably not true.
Yeah, unlike how US politics works...
ISIS is tweeting credit foe Oregon shooting and Obama wants to take our guns and open the gates for refugees.
They are a shedload more legitimate than however Daddy Hafez Assad came to power.
Yep NWO created.
Look up "order out of chaos"
Dumb operators or maybe even sabatoge/false info?
“How did we manage to hit a hospital? I thought our officials said that Russia was using dumb bombs.”
Smart bombs and stupid decisions don’t yield good results. Just accurate ones.
0bama’s pin prick strategery is in effective compared to Puty-Poot’s?
If ISIS is tweeting success for the Oregon shooting, then by extension, ISIS is giving credit to Obama for the shooting.
May be a plan to disarm citizens before the real attacks begin..
Barack’s and Jarrett’s perfumed princes/queens in the Pentagon want a 12 to 20 year war they control against their Isis buddie for job security.
Putin just wants to kill the Isis thugs and destroy their supplies, lodging and resources. So, he lets his military find the targets and destroy them.
Obama could have done this if he had really wanted to ...
Why would Assad/Syria not want a natural gas pipeline through Syria?
They would take a cut.
This is probably because Assad asked for too big of a cut.
It doesn’t really matter anyway if the Israelis start pumping natural gas out of that big field they found in the Mediterranean. A pipeline through Syria only gets the gas to ships in the Mediterranean. If the Israelis have a big loading facility in the Mediterranean, then they don’t have the transportation costs the Gulf States have getting the natural gas across all that sand. Israeli natural gas would be cheaper.
When will we begin to hear public calls for obama’s immediate resignation?
Btw, name one thing they've done for any Christians anywhere in the world, except death and destruction - we have the obomination of desolation steering our ship of state now.
Meanwhile 'in Afganistan' we all wait to see what the US and UK forces can achieve in one day .........NATO has admitted that of a U.S. airstrike bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that has killed at least nine medical staff and left 30 unaccounted for. ... The U.S. military said that the attack was taken against Taliban fighters that were 'threatening force' and referred to the hospital as 'collateral damage'....But the aid organization insists the bombardment continued for half an hour 'after' the U.S. military was informed the hospital had been hit.
Frantic staff phoned military officials at NATO in Kabul and Washington as bombs rained down on their hospital in the Afghan city on Kunduz for nearly an hour, the aid group said.
Narret, Valerie is what I think of every time I see that JV line.
While Obama sends out a dozen “tweets” and manages to kill 9 doctors this week, Russia claims to have routed ISIS - something our military hasn’t been allowed to do for the last year.
So very true....we are not allowed to defeat any enemy as long as Obama is in the White House.
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2004/10/syria-s-trouble
Heritage Foundation, at the least, folks here may take them serious, points out way back in 2004, what was going to become ISIS, old generals in Saddam’s army were planning attacks from Syria and Assad let them roam there, read the article from the rest.
One thing no one can deny is that the largest contingent of fighters in ISIS from a European nation is indeed from Russia with plenty of others from the former USSR.
But maybe all this doesn’t jive with the NWO argument.
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