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| Army Major Exposes The "ISIS Defeat" Myth That No One Is Talking About |
| 2018-01-28 |
| [Zero Hedge] Under President Obama’s watch, the Islamic State conquered a so-called caliphate the size of Ohio in Syria and Iraq. Luckily a new, "tough" president - Donald Trump - stepped in, loosed restrictions on his military, and, defeated the bad guys. At least that’s the popular story and the party line. Of course, the ground-level truth is much messier. If ISIS is so decisively and irreversibly defeated, how then to explain last week’s gruesome double-suicide bombing in Baghdad and expert warnings that up to 10,000 ISIS loyalists remain in Iraq and Syria? The problem is that, even after 17 years of hard lessons to the contrary, most Americans - and administration spokespeople - insist on viewing ISIS as a linear, conventional threat. A quick look at color-coded Syria maps gives the obvious impression that ISIS as a conventional military force indeed has receded. Plentiful U.S. airstrikes, ample American advisory teams, and local Kurdish ground troops combined to devastate Islamic State’s fighters - which is a positive development. Unfortunately, that may have been the easy part. Conventional destruction does not equate to total, ideological defeat. ISIS is as much idea as army, and such groups have proved remarkably resilient and capable of morphing into new, menacing manifestations. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 I keep mine in a Faraday cage. The WiFi receptions sucks, though... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-28 15:19 |
| #10 #2 You've always leaned a bit to the conspiratorial. You'll no doubt soon be suggesting a villainous plot is underway to extend 'Automatic Plate Number Recognition (APNR)' to humans via wrist tats or something. Posted by Besoeker It already exists...your cellphone is sitting right beside you with your own unique identification number attached... |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2018-01-28 15:04 |
| #9 Trump supporters, most political conservatives and many military officers point to Obama’s supposedly hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 as the impetus for the rise of ISIS. That explanation was simplistic — and, in the case of candidate Trump claiming that Obama literally "founded ISIS,” bordered on the absurd. Army Major using the title Army Major exposed as a political hack. This guy missed the whole point that our political and military withdrawl allowed the Shia govt. to declare war on the Sunnis...and the Sunni population provided the perfect host for ISIS...an armed, pissed population willing to make a deal with the devil to fight with the Shia... Obama the enabler may not have been the founder of ISIS...but the Caliphate surely would not have been founded if not for Obama's stupidity. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2018-01-28 15:01 |
| #8 No tats required, check the RFID label in your shirt. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-01-28 12:48 |
| #7 And the whole Syria thing is about Israel and SA channeling them north to Turkey. Posted by Skidmark I thought everyone knew that ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-28 12:39 |
| #6 You've always leaned a bit to the conspiratorial. And the whole Syria thing is about Israel and SA channeling them north to Turkey. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-01-28 12:08 |
| #5 NOOOO!!!! No tats on my forehead, it will clash with my bangs! |
| Posted by: Roth LaDoad 2018-01-28 10:14 |
| #4 the tats will be on the foreheads, not the wrists. Gotta keep the details straight! |
| Posted by: Nguard 2018-01-28 08:49 |
| #3 Remember, you don't have to completely defeat an enemy, but to weaken it so much that other predators in the environment ascend to dominate the territory. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-01-28 08:27 |
| #2 You've always leaned a bit to the conspiratorial. You'll no doubt soon be suggesting a villainous plot is underway to extend 'Automatic Plate Number Recognition (APNR)' to humans via wrist tats or something. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-28 07:00 |
| #1 If I wasn't thoroughly grounded in the mental disciplines of transnational progressivism/progressive liberalism, I would begin to wonder if - maybe, just maybe - ISIS/Al Qaeda etc... are not a small group of extremists trying to hijack a great religion. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-28 06:43 |