Discussion for article #227935
Hasn’t ISIS been killing civilians?
Yes. By the tens of thousands.
They have been and will continue to murder people no matter who they are. Fact is they have killed more Muslims than anyone else. No matter what we do they will continue to murder the innocent.
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Be afraid! Be VERY afraid!
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He has a point. The French are filthy. Maybe if the bathed regularly?
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This panicky and shrill attempt to “rally others to their cause” proves that ISIS is scared shitless by the current round of airstrikes. They are very good at “conquering” vast, empty tracks of sand, making Internet Videos, and killing the helpless, but actual, modern 21st century combat. No.
They know they will lose any stand-up fight with a well equipped, motivated, and trained adversary (just like they have done repeatedly in Iraq and Syria.)
They are nothing more than a gang, occupying vast areas of empty sand and dominating weak, helpless people who cannot stand against them.
At some point the other 317 “armed militia groups” in Iraq will tire of them and turn on them. Then they are over.
We need do nothing but drop the occasional bomb and bide our time.
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Absolutely. Play a bit of whack a mole, melt down all the hardware the Iraqis left them and monitor the situation.
Yep, we gotta take the bait, NOW! Hurry, hurry, the early bird gets the worm.
…OTOH, the second mouse gets the cheese,
Looby
I pretty much agree with everything you have said.
I also agree that the Sunni’s will tire of these thugs and turn on them. But be cognizant that the U.S. is already putting together coalitions within Iraq to fight these thugs just like we are coordinating with the Kurds.
I was completely against going to war in Iraq but these people are dangerous to European, Australian and U.S security. They need to be killed. The Iraqi’s need to be the boots on the ground but the U.S. does need to coordinate the destruction of these thugs.
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I liked everything you said until you got to the “need to be killed” part.
We don’t need to kill them very much, and should try to kill as few of them as possible in order to stop them. When their objectives become impossible, they will largely disappear.
We should do the minimum necessary to halt their progress, and let attrition sap their ranks. Let Iran and Iraq get rid of them permanently.
We will have to agree to disagree. In the world there are people so evil they need to be killed. ISIS kills innocent civilians including defenseless women and children. There is no selectively nipping at them and hope they will go away. They are concentrated in one area. They need to be destroyed before they break up and travel to other countries around the world. Then we will have non stop terrorism.
These people are religious fanatics. They will not dwindle or tire. They will kill everyone who does not think as they do. In this case I agree with those who say eradicate this scourge on the world. They are mass murderers, just like the Nazi’s in WW II. I will not lose a wink of sleep as these thugs are hunted down.
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Yes, ISIS has been killing civilians.
And US intervention began several weeks ago.
I’m not loving this headline.
That seems a bit optimistic.
ISIL proved itself very successful fighting the Syrian military. Russia had to pull out all the stops to back up Assad.
This “Islamic State” is an unprecedented danger. From now on, I’m voting Republican.
If we go in with American boots on the ground, which is more likely to happen than not, I hope this time around we won’t fool ourselves trying to “make friends” with these people. The ultimate goal must be to completely eradicate them from the face of this world.
I disagree that it is more likely to happen than not. It won’t happen under Obama .
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In a nearly 42-minute audio statement released online late Sunday
Yes ISIS has truly mastered the art of propaganda with a 42 MINUTE AUDIO STATEMENT. I hear it syncs up well with the Wizard of Oz too. Truly, masters.
Psychopaths and common criminals, masquerading as people with some great cause worth fighting for.
Now we wouldn’t have the potential for anything like that here in Murka!
That was not ISIS. ISIS was a small group in the south-east part of Syria that Assad barely controlled BEFORE the uprising.
Most of the heavy combat took place in the north-west and west of Damascus. The area where ISIS was/is was pretty much abandoned by Assad and that let ISIS metastasize.
They have no armor (a couple guys driving abandoned tanks is not an armored group), no airpower, no organization beyond “hey, lets go over there and kill some people” and no real command structure.
They will fold like a cheap suit (as they have before) when they are actually opposed on the ground.
The vast majority of ISIS is made up of young, untrained, uneducated, and underpaid Sunni conscripts who abandoned the Iraqi army rather than fight for the hated Shiite Command and Government. They won’t fight for ISIS either and will melt away back to their homes when the shit hits the fan.
Don’t get me wrong, the US should NOT under any circumstances get involved in ground combat, but air and logistical support, that we can do.