Posted on 10/08/2014 10:05:12 AM PDT by raptor22
War On Terror: While hitting a truck here or a tank there, the administration blows another chance to shatter Islamic State forces in open country as they plant their black flags on NATO's doorstep in the Kurdish city of Kobani.
One of the benefits of being a superpower is that you have super power. But power is effective only if you use it, something President Obama is loathe to do.
We have commented before on the administration's video-game air campaign against ISIS, designed to score points with the electorate even as ISIS relentlessly advances.
CNN reports that over the weekend "allied airstrikes destroyed two ISIS tanks, a bulldozer and another ISIS vehicle," likely one of those white pickup trucks ISIS is fond of. We're sending expensive high-tech fighters to fire laser-guided weapons at solitary bulldozers. This is beyond pathetic.
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A harem.
This just makes me sick. Prepare for more videos and pics of murdered children. Imagine their screams for their mothers in their last moments of life when ISIS jihadis begin sawing through their necks.
As long as ISIS sticks to the battle plan of Japan in SE Asia 1941-42, they will keep growing and keep winning.
The plan mixes extreme brutality, rape, terror, and indifference to casualties.
It worked for Genghis Khan, it worked for Tamurlane, it worked for Saladin, it worked for the Einsatzgruppen, it worked for Japan, and it will work for ISIS as well.
The counter to this enemy tactic is also well understood, as Halsey, Nimitz, Patton, Zhukov, and the Crusaders well knew and as, alas, we do not.
Here’s Patton’s famous prescription: “rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You’ve got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts...”
As long as no one fights ISIS the way they fight, they will win. It’s not going to be a “hundred year war”, because if we keep fighting the way we are, they will conquer us long before that.
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~George S. Patton
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I am praying for a miracle for the Kurds.....and a setback for ISIS. I want ISIS to get some mystery disease that spreads like wildfire thru them and prevents them from attacking others....and kills a lot of them.
Prayer is our best strategy here at this time against the barbarians.
Patton was the best.
“Prayer is our best strategy here at this time against the barbarians.”
Well, it certainly provides an outlet for helping to accept what lies ahead.
It is not “feckless.” It is calculated. Kurds are Apostate as far as orthodox Sunni and Shia are concerned and deserving of death. They are Kurds before they are Moslem else the Iraqi Kurds would not have given sanctuary to the Yazids. They also took in Christians. The Sultan in Washington is an orthodox Sunni. ISIS is doing what Moslems are required by their god to do. ISIS is orthodox Sunni.
I wouldn’t say accept what lies ahead, as I have been a prayer warrior for more than three decades and I have seen miracles through prayer.....things that happened I do not talk about.
God does not usurp another persons will, but will deal with people to do extra ordinary things...that change lives or circumstances.
I believe we do not give prayer the respect it deserves.
The Israelites saw walls come down and enemies defeated without a need to fight at times due to prayer.
I wish I had the same strong belief about prayer that you do... I tend to think it’s more of a communication outlet. I’m sure those poor Christians in Mosul prayed fervently as well.
There are the circumstances we cannot explain, but those come from the people being prayed for mostly. Fear is opposite of faith, so Jesus said ‘be it according to your faith’. Receiving the prayer may be important or being positive instead of negative. It’s easy to say ‘we are dead’ but harder to say ‘greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world’, and I’m getting out of this.
For example: The way the 9/11 plane went down in Pa by the heroism of those who said ‘let’s roll’.
Yet it took JOB in the Bible a long time to understand his terrible downfall was the result of ‘the thing I feared the most came up on me’....
Yes, we never understand why some prayers are answered miraculously or why some seem to not penetrate the wall....I think there are factors we cannot see that determine victory or defeat.
I understand it can be discouraging when prayers aren’t answered. Some can’t receive prayer if they are non believers,as well. WE can’t explain many things, but it doesn’t discount the miracles that do happen, imho.
I used to think my prayer wasn’t answered if the person died, however when it came to suffering from cancer, disease, pain, etc I finally realized the greatest healing for a Christian was death...release to a new glorified body from the one that was in torment.
Then it becomes perspective of reality to me....the patient’s reality.
I don’t see any other realistic option for the relief of the encircled Kurdish population.
The Turks are complicit in this operation, and have deployed an iron anvil of their military to close their border. ISIS has the Kurds surrounded, cutting off resupply - their ammo will run out. ISIS is freely resupplied from Turkey itself, and has open lines of supply back to the rest of their area of control.
The US is doing nothing effective - a handful of bombs were dropped outside the city after five day absence, just so they can say they did something. It is just theater. The US is purposely on the sidelines watching ISIS advance.
The Syrian Kurds in the North East did not help Assad, and Assad is not helping them now.
The only people who might want to help are the Iraqi Kurds - but it would be suicidal to try to drive deep into Syria, through ISIS territory, when they could expect Turkish air and artillery attacks in the open (not admitted by the Turks, of course). The Turks also have a lot of leverage over the Iraqi Kurds - in the long run it could mean strategic failure for the dream of Iraqi Kurdistan to buck Turkey’s will on this.
Iraqi Kurds, or their allies (Israel, Iran, France), might be able to arrange some type of covert resupply - that is probably why the Turks are now calling for a no-fly zone - they might even shoot down resupply flights and attribute it to ISIS.
Miracles have happened, and sometimes hard times bring out incredible things from people. A political deal might be made to prevent the slaughter, or the Kurds might have some special advantage on their home turf, after years of war, in which to prepare.
I pray for them too.
If this happens I hope the cameras are rolling and pictures are being taken. I want the world to see what the dimoKKKRATs policies do.
Prayer is good, but a sixty-division expeditionary force with a thousand-ship Navy would be of more immediate usefulness.
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