[Paladin2]

Every government needs money.

The Caliphate is no different.

Pumping oil is better than directly taxing the peeps.

[Smokin' Joe]

Bomb the pumping stations. Deprive ISIS of a million or more a day.

[texas booster]

“We not only can cut them off from the U.S. financial system and freeze their assets, but we can also make it very difficult for them to find a bank anywhere that will touch their money or process their transactions,” he said.

Sure there, State Dept pajama boy, that's some big talk.

You can't (or don't want to) control money trails for the Mafia, drug runners, human smuggling, gamblers, North Korean printing presses or a host of other illicit flows.

And you think that you will shut anything down in the M.E., when many on the White House and State Dept team are on the ISIS side?

Just no desire to do so from the top.