Posted on 06/12/2014 12:36:27 PM PDT by Mount Athos
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has thrived and mutated in the security vacuum that followed the departure of the last U.S. forces from Iraq and the civil war in Syria.
The aim of ISIS is to create an Islamic state across Sunni areas of Iraq and in Syria.
With the seizure of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and advances on others, that aim appears within reach.
ISIS controls hundreds of square miles where state authority has evaporated. It ignores international borders and has a presence all the way from Syria's Mediterranean coast to south of Baghdad.
How to respond to the ISIS threat
What are its origins?
In 2006, al Qaeda in Iraq -- under the ruthless leadership of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- terrorized Sunni parts of Iraq as it tried to ignite a sectarian war against the majority Shia community.
It came close to succeeding, especially after the bombing of the Al-Askariya Mosque, an important Shia shrine in Samarra, which sparked retaliatory attacks.
But the killing of al-Zarqawi by American forces, the vicious treatment of civilians by AQI, and the emergence of the Sahwa (Awakening) Fronts under Sunni tribal leaders nearly destroyed the group.
Nearly, but not quite.
When U.S. forces left Iraq, they took much of their intelligence-gathering expertise with them.
Iraqi officials began to speak of a "third generation" of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Two years ago, a former spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, warned that "if the Iraqi security forces are not able to put pressure on them, they could regenerate."
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It is not our fault ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dp29XacCe8 ... Four Doors
“Watch: this State Department will recognize ISIS as a sovereign nation before this president leaves office.”
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Probably fly their flag over the White House, too.
What one says is Never Comes the Day ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dzRdyC0abA ... What? Comes? Yes, it come a little bit less?
inside it has # hash tags. That Wins Wars!
The bearded savages are getting stronger. The threat is bigger. Our big guy doesn’t seen to mind. Wonder why.
yes, she wait there.
It is the secrets of our soul.
Ever Heard the Voice? ... Tell Me Once More, Please ... This Sunlight is Calling You ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-umqM9R8cnI
If we don't help now, we will have to go back in and clean up a bigger mess. Sheeeeeeeeeesh!
Yes, Sir! Lay it on the Line! They come for U.S. if we do not! Why Let Them Lay?
Islam has always been this way. It is in the DNA.
All of this is of Obama’s doing. He is Cloward-Piven-ing. He is overwhelming the system to bring about collapse. And out of those ashes, who knows what will rise. This man is the worst thing that has ever happened to this country. It cannot be said he ins ONLY incompetent (although this is certainly the fact), he wants to punish this country as he destroys it. He knows his time is short. He knows he must accelerate the destruction to reach his Marxist ends. And he is doing it right before our very eyes and the eyes of the Republican House of Representatives. But they care more about their power status than this country. I do not see any way to fix this mess.
Yes, Never Comes the Day when the lame-stream reveals their love for their children or grand-children or your children or grand-children. They must be paid too well to lie. They (the lame-stream) does not care who dies ....
It comes down to Knights in White Satin. Hi, lame-stream, I know you hate America and are the Knights in White Satin. Racists!
No, I think Islam was the first terror group to build and Islamic state.
The Obama doctrine : airstrikes and drones
McCain/Grahm/GOPe doctrine: airstrikes,drones and troops
What great options. Maybe another trillion will fix it.
How about neither?
We don’t need to be involved in the Middle East.
Let them get the governance they deserve.
Surrenderkenyan ping.
If Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is in control of the money ISIS stole from the bank, and can keep his influence on the fighters, he may have better bargaining power against those that have backed him so far: Saudi
What to do: Well, the usual thing follow the money!
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