17 Replies to “The Rise Of Isis”

  4. Agreed . I stopped watching Frontline long ago as it is just slick left wing propaganda cloaked in PBS garb to appear factual.

  5. Both Sunnis and Shiites hate the West. Let them kill each other. Saves us the bother. The Chairman of the JCS says that if ISIS wins they could become a threat to us but especially to Europe. Really? How so? ISIS has a very well trained and brilliantly led light infantry but that is all it has and that is all it will ever have. The idea that ISIS could be a threat to a modern Western military is preposterous. ISIS can be easily contained. If you really want a stable Middle East then let this conflict resolve itself. Above all, none of our soldier’s lives should be sacrificed to save either side’s sorry asses.

  6. Despite Frontline’s crude and obvious attempt to shield OBOZO from blame and stick it on Malaki….it is OBOZO’s premature withdrawl of the “boots-on-the-ground that let Malaki run wild.
    This cut and run thing with the Donkey’s also doomed Viet Nam. It seems like a juvenile urge for instant gratification. As I have said elsewhere, lefties invariably run up a butcher’s bill because like the kids they are people in a hurry, they want it all NOW and will kill anyone who interferes.
    The last war we can claim to have won, had occupation troops in Germany and Japan for a generation or more.

  7. Hmmm, the intro shows a list of all the usual lefty donars – it is PBS after all. I will wait tio see how this all started as a bunch of aging crochet women, just wanting justice.

  8. Even the opening is spinning the Obama line. I do not hold out much hope. “Suddenly this appeared overnight/within a year”? Ha!

  9. When the rise of ISIS started, I felt some sympathy with their victims, but only the Kurdish and Christian victims. All I can think, is that Israel must be quietly thrilled, the IDF does not have to “take out the trash” for a while.

  10. I disagree. My take away from this is that it is a shiite sunni battle that was basically inevitable because they are all backwards savages. Saddam kept them from killing each other and as soon as he was gone it all fell apart. The real western mistake was not splitting the area up into separate states along sectarian lines.
    Best course of action for the west after cutting all immigration from muslim countries is to let them all kill each other off.
    I can never remember who are the shiites and who are the sunni, but Saudi Arabia is one, Iran in the other and the countries geographically in between are both.
    I thought the American overthrow of Saddam was a good thing. I am prepared to admit I was wrong. They are all savages and the more they kill each other the better. As America develops more of its own oil resources it doesn’t even have any strategic interest in the area. Let it all fall apart. Not our prolem.

  11. I only care about the Christians and the Kurds and the kids if we could protect them …I’d be willing to arm both sides until there was just one single soldier left standing then I would order a drone strike on him . And build the largest pork processing facility in that area the world has ever seen.

  12. As much as a lot of people don’t like PBS. I do believe this is an excellent piece of journalism. No necessarily what I want to see or hear, but nonetheless thorough.

  13. “……..the IDF does not have to “take out the trash” for a while.”
    Pretty much. ISIS has no air-force to contest the IDF…..so Isreali air supremacy is a precondition…..
    Then the question is how long light infantry will last against the modern equivalent of panzer armies. A 2-day war?

  14. I agree. But the program did try to whitewash Obama’s roll in this fiasco and put all the blame on Maliki.
    I also agree with Big Momma in that I fell sorry for the Christians and Kurds. They just want to be left alone.
    Sasquatch is right about ISIS being light infantry even if they have some trained officers. A modern trained army like Turkey’s or a western coalition army would make short work of them. But, the west has no gumption to go after them. Air action against them will hurt them but not destroy them.

  16. “The Israeli Air Force would use CBUs on them and if necessary FAEs.”
    Yeah I saw the Mitla Pass in 1967…..
    Picture the images of that road in Kuwait….called “The Highway of Death”….and then expand it to hundreds of sq miles….
    The descendants of Joshua have modernized…

  17. Aside that ISIS has been given the stage in the Middle East by the Obola administration; the “terrorists” did not magically appear by waving a magic wand overnight – poof “here they are”. They have always been there and are the product of a much deeper religious and cultural norm throughout the Arab lands and by extension Islam.
    This is why attempting to drop a few bombs and missiles on villages across the region, is fruitless. It’s not a matter of routing 10,000 – 50,000 ISIS “combatants” and it all goes away. ISIS is the end product of 500,000 strong regional Arab cultures + 1.7 billion strong global Islamic cultures that have established its ideology quietly/ stealthy throughout the world.
    It’s a waste of time fighting these cannon fodder sand rodents while the money and bases of operations are located in western sanctuary countries like our own.
    A serous waste of time and precious other recourses.

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