Posted on 06/11/2014 3:22:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Militant Sunni forces are taking territory with lightning speed, moving toward the ultimate goal of establishing a new Islamic Caliphate.
Hardened by years of battle in neighboring Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is routing the forces of a modern nation-state and gathering land with the ultimate goal of establishing an alternate form of governance, an Islamic Caliphate.
“This is not a terrorism problem anymore,” says Jessica Lewis, an expert on ISIS at the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank. “This is an army on the move in Iraq and Syria, and they are taking terrain.”
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
maybe we should hold off on selling them the F16s...?
Fall of Saigon redux.
Wow, who could have seen this coming.
OK, Iraqis. Now is the time for you to rise in defense of your crummy country.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/11/world/meast/iraq-violence/
Iraq’s government is literally about to fall
Did the US leave Stockpiles of Weapons behind ? If so, now we know why .
BUSH WON THE WAR IN IRAQ....OBAMA LOST THE PEACE AND IRAQ.
WHAT A POS!!!
we could have had a pro-America ally in the f...g middle of the Mideast, cheap oil deals and a great trading partner, a launch pad for hitting Iran...........
and this A...hle LOST IT ALL!
I WANT TO THROW UP NOW.
Who will the Caliph of the Caliphate be?
Wouldn’t it be important to get the right guy—or is it OK with Obama if the biggest mullah seizes the #1 power position?
Put the blame where it belongs....Obama!
Obama’s available in Jan 2017.
Although the amenities may not be up to the royal standard required by the family.
ISIS is so radical, they’ve even alienated Al Qaeda. These people are soon to be in control of Iraq. How long will it be before the Taliban 2.0 runs Afghanistan? Well, they just got 5 of their commanders back so probably a matter of weeks.
Obastard’s presidency is an unmitigated DISASTER!
sad... what an incredible waste of American lives.
the war was won...by our young men and GWB.
thanks to this Prez, it was all for nothing.
Unfortunately TIME, you are part of the problem.
Extremists? You make it sound like this is a handful of goat pluggers coming out of caves in the mountains. These are muslims (millions of them) with the intent of bring islam to the world. As in rule the world. Until you and Western Governmenst own up and admit this, civilization is in danger.........
Hell hath frozen over......
The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has said it is prepared to come to Iraq’s aid against the Sunni insurgents sweeping through the country. “The foreign-backed terrorism that our brothers in Iraq are facing is the same that is targeting Syria,” the foreign ministry said.
Breaking : The US Embassy in Iraq has a grim message to Americans travelling in the country: Do not travel, things are as bad now as the height of the fighting in 2007.
I’ve been saying that since the day when we let them write that Iraqi Constitution which mandated......NO LAW SHALL CONTRADICT ISLAM.
OH WELL.
The Muslims remember when their original Caliphate extended from the Oxus to the Pyrenees. That’s what they want back, just for starters.
Thanks to the people who put a foreign enemy combatant into our White House, Iraq will fall, Afghanistan will fall, Libya has already fallen, Syria is going, Nigeria is in trouble...
Egypt fell and got back up to scream bloody murder at the Obama who pushed terrorism on them.
Just like when you tell the Central/South Americans that we’ll trade our military bases from housing soldiers to housing whatever kids they want to send up here to get amnesty... when you tell the terrorists that we’ll trade one traitor to give them back their top 5 terrorists...... you EMBOLDEN THEM ALL, and pretty soon you’ve got the whole world acting as if lawlessness wins.
Because you had the supposed leader of the free world tell them to their faces that lawlessness wins. And he should know, because it’s all he’s ever done.
We have got to get rid of this lawless regime, the foreign enemy combatant who heads this lawless regime, and all those who poo-poohed and abetted his lawlessness.
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