Posted on 09/22/2014 9:04:53 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Also why aren't we using B52s, B1's, C130 gunships?
Hmmm. Religious freedom? If we didn’t allow it, would that make us racists?
Exactly. Oil infrastructure and transport is highly susceptible to bombing.
Bomb it.
The author has a spouse?
Wonder if he has a wife...
Wouldn’t it be better to boycott the oil they’re stealing and selling rather than bombing the oil fields?
For ISIS to have ‘formed’ in the last few months (or year) and to exert that level of control over these types of operations then there HAS to be a higher level of organization than any kind of ‘grass roots’ (radical or otherwise) movement.
They are being escorted into power by someone.
Or their influence is being grossly over stated.
Most oilfield targets are soft targets. It shouldn't be hard to disrupt the flow of oil. The question, though, is one of who 'owns' the oil? (controlling mineral interests) or is ISIS getting all of the money?
Then, who is buying it?
Since Turkey and others are buying that oil, and not us, how would that help? We don't buy the oil we already don't buy?
Better yet, let them load the ship and let the ship pass into international waters. capture the ship, sail it to the US and deposit the crude in out Strategic Oil Reserve and arrest the ship. Do the same to the next and next ship and soon no one will want to transport the crude.
Islamic State Smuggles Oil Into TurkeyWith Hostages as Insurance
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-11/islamic-state-smuggles-oil-into-turkey-with-hostages-as-insurance
September 11, 2014
Obviously I meant those that were buying the oil other than us, since they’re supposedly against terrorism.
So how do you convince someone who has already decided to buy from a group like Isis, for drastically discounted prices, to change?
If I heard one of the 4star retired Gens correctly ISIS isn’t selling it on the open market, but selling it black market
and that would require intel
Intel we don’t appear capable of acquiring right now.
I agree with you. bomb them to bolivian.:)
It isn’t moving out on ships. They are not on ocean ports.
Better yet, pirate the oil in transit.
Because that’s where the money is, and profits trump ideology, national security, and national sovereignty. Duh!
Oil is almost totally fungible, that is, when commingled with the rest of the oil in international trade, it cannot be identified as being from some particular field or another.
What is going on, is that Turkey is accepting the oil from the ISIS organization, as broker, then covering up the chain of custody on the oil, hiding its source.
Turkey is no longer a friend of the US, NATO, or any country in the West. They have become an Islamic state, allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, and are very much in favor of the establishment of a Middle East Caliphate.
Because it’s too simple a solution, the elite intellectuals must weigh in with their “nuance.”
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