A grateful caliphate: ISIS posts photos thanking Obama for ‘spoils of war’
Janes:
The Islamic State can now link its Syrian administrative centre in Raqqa to Homs, and mount attacks from Palmyra in multiple directions. Homs controls access from Damascus to the coastal mountains that are home to the Syrian government’s core Alawite support base. In addition, Palmyra grants the Islamic State access to Hama Province via the Ismaili town of Salamiyah as the group already has a presence in the area. From Palmyra, the Islamic State will probably engage in multiple skirmishes, with the objective of forcing the Syrian government to disperse its forces, exacerbating its overstretch.
It is so sad to witness what has happened to the US over my lifetime. The Americans I have met that defeated Germany and Japan would be storming the Whitehouse right now. The West is now every bit in peril as we were at the height of the Cold War.
We have witnessed over one single President an almost 100% reversal on foreign policy. If in the long term democracy can manage to survive this lunacy, I believe Obama will be judged by history as a criminal.
Observer, at the rate history is being made by these earth devils in their slaughter of innocents and conqueoring of land, they will be on the doorstep of the white house soon to meet their hero and he can finally be sworn in legitimately. If he were an” American” leader he would have unleashed the proper response to evil. This man child is an invention of the left, let him stand as a lesson in the futility of the left. If a new leader let the proud warriors most American military people are do their job, these woman hating cowards would be overcooked.
How the Taliban got there hands on modern US missiles.
Pretty soon, those guys are going to have a pretty good army. Not to mention how much of this stuff they are selling to the Russians and Chinese, probably in return for AK-47s they can actually operate.
Linked Janes article is probably wrong. Assad must hold Damascus if he’s to retain any pretence of being the recognized government of Syria. This would certainly be important for him to retain any influence with his principal ally Russia.
“The Americans I have met that defeated Germany and Japan would be storming the Whitehouse right now.”
Oh? So where were they during the 60’s when the stage was set for what is happening today?
The picture is wrong. ISIS would not be rampaging through the middle east if Bush hadn’t destroyed the Iraqi government. His name should be on both statues.
“Oh? So where were they during the 60’s when the stage was set for what is happening today?”
They were allowing themselves and their institutions to be quietly infiltrated and subverted by the radical left.
If in fact it was a mistake for Bush to take out Saddam, Obama has done absolutely nothing to correct the situation and in fact through possible Islamic sympathies has exacerbated the situation to the extent that the whole ME, North Africa, can possibly be taken over by ISIS and its allies.
This is, of course, absolutely correct. Hussein held Iraq together and extremist Islam in check. Bush mistake 1: take out Saddam. Bush mistake 2: Disband the Iraqi military, the Baath Party and purge all Baathists from Iraqi civil institutions. The result: ISIS, whose own leadership consists almost entirely of former Saddam military and Baath Party officials.
GWB’s legacy is ISIS.
L you make one big assumption – The assumption that Saddam would have not caused any trouble in the mean time. You got it wrong! The Americans pulling out of Iraq was the problem – the fault lies there. Give your head a shake.
Taking out Gadhafi; that was a BIG mistake.
Unless you are prepared to garrison the entire Islamic wastelands until there is no “Islamic” left, leave the whole wretched region to the retrogrades. The only legitimate regime that deserves support is Israel. Why should brave young Americans go to early graves to intervene in an endless Sunni-Shiite-theocracy-post-imperial-basket-case-fluster-cluck.
We have enough trouble with the progressives trying to make the West prime habitat for the Jihad.
Bullshit. In 2012 Obama called Iraq stable and secure. Let me help you, Bush was gone for 3 years in January of 2012. Refusing to reach a status of forces agreement with Iraq and withdrawing all troops was Barack Insane Obama’s choice. He also destabilized Egypt and Libya contributing to the chaos. This mess is either his policy or the failure of his policy. Which is it?
Raymond Ibrahim’s 7 predictions about Obama’s empowerment of ISIS.
Not only all correct but in the right sequence too.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/raymond-ibrahim/obamas-policies-to-empower-isis-exposed/
Me vindicated again: I was against Canada joining the bogus coalition because I foresaw this outcome.
Which is not a real brag because it was too painfully obvious.
Canadian forces under the Enemy in Chief?!
Harper is the best PM over my adult life but sadly he is a neocon fool.
Send in the BUFFs.
What Rudy, Ken (Kukak) and John Chittick said.
Due to geographic isolation and good luck American got fat, dumb and happy.
America is a geopolitical Freshman.
Clueless.
David Frum once said that Bush was incurious.
As much as I dislike Frum, he’s right here I think.
Everything we see happening now is a direct result of the tragic imbalance caused by the removal of Saddam. Obama has repeated this error with the removal of Gadaffi.
However Obama is evil whereas Bush was merely naive.
(1)
Not quite. If it wasn’t Bush. It would have been another Prez. Saddam wasn’t about to quit his games and after the Food for Oil mess. He knew it wouldn’t be long before he would be back in the biz again.
(2)… thats anyone guess on that part.
Bush biggest mistake, was listening to Powell, who after the first Gulf war showed his real colors. A leader he was not!
The thing is that Sadist Hussein, Khadafy and other despots, dictators, tyrants……have ruled these countries as a matter of fact not that the population in general cared for anything else.
The population are mostly peasants trying to make a living from the desert. Being beaten down by the clerics of their oppressive religion on every aspect of existence.
They are undoubtedly told that, that is the will of certain Allah and that the religionists are there to help to them to keep it that way.
If they wanted to improve their lot, they may be told that it is not the will of this thing.
In the western eye, the removal and demise of those leaders is desirable.
No one asked a guy in a walled settlement in the desert what he thinks about it. One would reason that he does not think anything as long as the settlement is not affected.
What should have happened in Iraq, Libya and other places is as much as the Englishman said “to be or not to be”.
The only dilemma remains is who cares what happens in the desert? Is it important or not?
Should the “highly sophisticated” societies of the west care? Should they then spend money and blood to do anything about it?
Bush, however people think about him, have made a decision, since in the scheme of things, it was up to him to decide.
He, as it turned out was a pretty decent kind of guy while rather quiet, not making, compared to the current occupant of the White House, any pronouncements, declaration, statements and other such bombastic announcements to make himself look good.
“Everything we see happening now is a direct result of the tragic imbalance caused by the removal of Saddam. ”
Wouldn’t go that far. These brands of Islam were brewing while the soviets were still in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah was stirring the crowds outside the US Embassy in Tehran. However, I agree with you that the half-assed job the US did in Iraq certainly contributed to the present mess.
How long could we have continued to enjoy peace in the Middle East at the cost of horrific brutality? In this matter I agree with both Bush and Obama. It could not go on forever.
I have said it before.
This is all part of Barry’s plan.
This is just his way of delivering the weaponry to his true allies, ISIS.
Our true allies, on the other hand, will have to do this without the now neutered USA.
The same Democrats who made political hay over Bush’s problems in Iraq were urging him to do something before the war because Saddaam was such a big threat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8
It’s what Iraqi soldiers do–run away and drop their weapons. That the third time in recent memory they’ve done this: Kuwait liberation, Iraq invasion (the Mother of all battles) and now fleeing before ISIS. Apparently, there’s proof now some officers have even joined ISIS
It’s what Iraqi soldiers do–run away and drop their weapons. That the third time in recent memory they’ve done this: Kuwait liberation, Iraq invasion (the Mother of all battles) and now fleeing before ISIS. Apparently, there’s proof now some officers have even joined ISIS