Posted on 10/05/2015 4:53:25 PM PDT by amorphous
A top terror expert says ISIS is now so weak that it could be decimated within hours.
According to a London Express report Monday evening, Russian airstrikes, unruly leadership and numerous defections have destabilized the terror organization to the point that it wouldn’t be capable of fighting off even a small attack.
Terror analyst Dr. Afzal Ashraf told the paper that ISIS has drastically exaggerated its military power, prompting an international counterattack. Ashraf urged Western leaders to act now to wipe out the jihadi group.
The U.S. has led a coalition of airstrikes against ISIS. The New York Times reported that the coalition is preparing to open a major front in Raqqa, a city in northeastern Syria that is widely considered to be ISIS’ capital. President Obama has also ordered the Pentagon to provide weapons to Syrian rebel groups.
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It could be to someone who really wanted it to be...
Who really takes a hit outside of Bammy??
The CIA, this has their hands all over it and State (will not say her name) is more than a$$ deep in all of this
Russia is ensconced as a force in the ME theater and they will have to deal with the Shia-Sunni bloodletting that is coming
Been brewing for hundreds of years, bad blood...
Just so Washington knows we do not need their oil...
In fact if things heat up our oil will rocket in value...
Schadenfreude....
And Psalms 37...
Read it, even if you do not currently believe
They “disappear” over and over...
You will look for them but you will not find them...
And no, they did NOT escape Justice this time...
Delicious
Watch and See...
Soros power play, high level hijinks jockeying for position and went too far
Watch and See...
That would be hilarious. They destroy everyone else’s culture. Methinks they deserve a taste of their own medicine.
Way too optimistic. ISIS is firmly embedded and in control in many sympathetic Sunni cities in Iraq and some in Syria.
If they lose Raqqa it would be a major psychological blow but they could move to Mosul since our air strikes apparently are not taking out ISIS convoys to any great extend.
The Iraqis, with US help, and Iranian help, will need to cut off all road ways into Mosul and any other Iraqi cities controlled by ISIS, to slowly starve them out (It will take months, many months, before civilian morale breaks down and the defections begin. ISIS will not let them leave, thus using their own supporters as hostages from air and artillery attacks).
The best strategy is to nickel and dime them to death, with major strikes when a good target is found (that requires very accurate and real time intelligence, something we are not getting or want to get).
My strategy is the Island-Hopping one that so many American commanders wanted for the Pacific instead of the very bloody take-every-island strategy of Gen. McArthur (my father-in-law, a veteran of the Pacific campaigns including IWO, hated McArthur for wasting so many lives on islands that could have been isolated, shelled, and left to rot).
People have to eat, to have medicine, fuel, etc. Encircle, blockade, nibble, and wait them out. Welcome to Vicksburg, folks.
“It’s the lack of willpower by King Barack that allowed them to invade and set up with little opposition.”
I’ll have to disagree. It wasn’t lack of willpower, it was agreement and permission from King Barack that allowed them to invade...”
Is it possible, all along, that ISIS was that easy to defeat?
Yes, she would, wouldn’t she? If it is true that China is in contact with Russia over this affair, Fiorina better pull out more than her polish and her glibness and her sorry corporate clown hat. <:/
0bama and his commie media are still trying to push the narrative that US was supporting the mythical moderates nobly fighting against the dictator Assad and the ISIS terrorists.
The problem with that narrative is that the low info voters don’t know where Syria is and who the players are. The narrative is simply too complex for the Dem base and that leaves informed voters free to expose the lie, further reducing the credibility of 0bama and his propagandists.
0bama can’t be happy that his lie has been exposed. His base won’t rally to him over this, his opposition has stiffened, US allies will distrust him more, and US enemies will be embolded; eager to challenge 0bama again.
I’m sorry but you’re just hopelessly strange.
I would not be surprised if this ‘news’ is nothing more than Obama covering his ass and attempting to discredit Putin while taking credit for Putin’s eventual success destroying ISIS in Syria.
“Why is Obama arming Syrian rebels? Theey are the bad guys.”
Nation building. It’s what they do.
Worldwide CXonspiracy using Migrants to stir the pot
They are soldiers, plants to all the note Non Islamic countries
When it gets crazy things will flare, too many hot spots
The methods and messages across the board as too similar to be consequence
Øbama steps out in front of the parade and shouts, “follow me!”
My sweetie favors a neutron bomb. Kills all living things but leaves pretty much everything else standing.
People are strange when you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly when you’re alone
Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted
Streets are uneven, when you’re down
When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your name
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
Everything is a bombshell.
How the world has changed. I can’t believe I was laughing at that.
I am sure he is, so I wonder what he will do to help them?
The article is about the state of ISIS from last month, Russia has jack to do with this guy’s assessment.
Oh, and these "moderate Muslims," if they exist, will NOT be immediately overpowered by Muslim Brotherhood, AlQaeda, and the like. No. There will be peace in the valley.
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