ISIS Ain't No Thang

Just a brutal Sunni militia ...

... nothing more.

ISIS thrives in poor, Sunni Arab areas…But after months of steady expansion, the Islamic State has taken most of these areas in Iraq while failing to seize areas with non-Sunni populations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/world/middleeast/isis-wave-of-might-is-turning-into-ripple.html?_r=1

Yo, Peedawg ....

.... has Kobane fallen ....

.... how 'bout Baghdad?

lmao

Told ya.

Is th battle over yet? ISIS and. AlQaeda just paired up. If Christ tarries in his return our grandkids will fight the grandkids of the aforementioned group unless we stamp them out like roaches

Is th battle over yet? ISIS and. AlQaeda just paired up. If Christ tarries in his return our grandkids will fight the grandkids of the aforementioned group unless we stamp them out like roaches


You propose we stamp out an ideology with armies and bombs. I would suggest that produces only a temporary status, and often strengthens the very ideology you seek to destroy. It will take modernity in stark contrast to that ideology to change or defeat the same. ISIS and Ebola are real threats which have been exaggerated in the context of a threat to the United States. This process of exaggeration was not done innocently, and serves to frighten a political base which feeds the MIC. The restraint shown in the response to both in regards to the United States shows wisdom.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:Is the battle over yet? ISIS and. AlQaeda just paired up. If Christ tarries in his return our grandkids will fight the grandkids of the aforementioned group unless we stamp them out like roaches

ISTANBUL (AP) -- Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, a high-level Syrian opposition official and a rebel commander have told The Associated Press.

Such an accord could present new difficulties for Washington's strategy against the IS group. While warplanes from a U.S.-led coalition strike militants from the air, the Obama administration has counted on arming "moderate" rebel factions to push them back on the ground. Those rebels, already considered relatively weak and disorganized, would face far stronger opposition if the two heavy-hitting militant groups now are working together.

IS - the group that has seized nearly a third of Syria and Iraq with a campaign of brutality and beheadings this year - and al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria, known as the Nusra Front, have fought each other bitterly for more than a year to dominate the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The Associated Press reported late last month on signs that the two groups appear to have curtailed their feud with informal local truces. Their new agreement, according to the sources in rebel groups opposed to both IS and Nusra Front, would involve a promise to stop fighting and team up in attacks in some areas of northern Syria.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_ISLAMIC_STATE_AL_QAIDA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-13-14-35-12

100 PERCENT OF ALL DEAD TERRORISTS NEVER KILL Again

Yeah you'd be the biggest bed wetter of them all if it came down to it

How many bombs does it take to show restraint?

PkrBum wrote:How many bombs does it take to show restraint?

Not only bombs but shipments of weapons to rebels. I believe that policy has failed during several administrations in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and elsewhere but Obama didn't learn a lesson from those failures.

Of course weapons don't always get used like rebels promise their U.S. benefactors.



One reason other more stable Mideast countries don't attempt to solve some of the problems in their own backyard is that the U.S. can be depended upon to interfere.

Genius.

I believe the Obama administration has shown great restraint with regard to ISIS despite the goading by the GOP neocons to send in American fighting forces. We now know (and confirms my own belief) that the ISIS leader Bagdadi wants so badly for America to again become fully involved. Should that happen it would continue to deplete our treasury of needed monies for domestic use, shameful loss of American soldiers and not accomplish one damn thing. Obama has supported actions to hold the ISIS forces at bay until others can again be stood up to face their enemies.

Well we can't kill off the MICs golden goose that they trained and supplied so they could have a legitimate enemy to keep these wars going...