I was sent this ‘toon via Twitter….I kinda like it…..can explain how we choose the friend from foe…….
Day: September 29, 2014
ISIS Coalition Situation Report (SITREP) #7
Good Morning
The US begins its seventh week performing airstrikes against ISIS targets………..An updated SITREP on the activities of the Coalition and the Islamic State……we enter into the second week of the coalition attacking ISIS positions and events related to the working of the coalition…….
Item 1–The Coalition has grown by three (3)……Denmark, France and UK have added their firepower to the collective…..
Item 2–So far the cost of the ISIS ops is about $7-10 million a day…..and that should increase as the size of the US force is expanded..
Item 3–Now the Right is having a field with comments made by Gen. Dempsey……..
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey refused to back down from last week’s comments on the possibility of US ground troops being involved in the open-ended war on ISIS, insisting today that he will recommend “what it takes” to destroy ISIS, even if that means ground troops.
The media has latched onto this statement like a Pitt Bull with a baby’s leg……I want to remind people that the prez makes that decision….NOT the generals. May I suggest that FOX, et al pick something else to concern the viewer over.
Item 4–We have been given a new player over which we should be concerned….according to the admin that is…….Khorasan……….billed by the admin as the Seal Team of AQ………..but there is more to this group…….
It’s puzzling for people in Syria, especially those affiliated with the rebellion, because none of them have ever heard of any such faction. Indeed, the evidence is increasingly that the US made it up.
“The name is clearly US-originated,” noted analyst Pieter van Ostaeyen, who says that the name had never been mentioned by any jihadist movements until the US started talking them up.
The question is……is this truly a separate group or just simply AQ? It worked well to terrify the public and maybe that was its use all along.
Item 5–As predicted before this major undertaking was began……..critics said it would serve as a recruitment tool and do very little stop the advance of ISIS………this report over the past weekend…………..
Syrian rebels say that the US airstrikes on ISIS inside Syria haven’t helped them. If you’re wondering who is benefiting, the answer could well be ISIS.
Since President Obama announced his intention to strike Syria on September 10, ISIS has gained more than 200 new fighters in Aleppo Province alone. That’s likely a drop in the bucket compared to what it did for recruitment in provinces where they have a larger presence.
Item 6–The airstrikes are helping ISIS make a change……not in desire….but rather in tactics…….
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State militants are changing tactics in the face of U.S. air strikes in northern Iraq, ditching conspicuous convoys in favor of motorcycles and planting their black flags on civilian homes, tribal sources and eyewitnesses say.
They reported fewer militant checkpoints to weed out “apostates” and less cell phone use since the air strikes intensified and more U.S. allies pledged to join the campaign that began in August, saying the militants had also split up to limit casualties.
A tribal sheikh from a village south of Kirkuk said Islamic State elements “abandoned one of their biggest headquarters in the village” when they heard the air strike campaign was likely to target their area.
Item 7–The US Congress has decided to waste more time and delay them having to vote on this war until after the lies have been delivered and the people have voted……..this is just ridiculous!
A handful of Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee have gone off to Turkey to create their own “historic” coalition of rebel factions which pledged to attack both ISIS and the Assad government.
Led by Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R – IL) and George Holding (R – NC), the coalition was said to include “more than 20 Syrian rebel commanders,” though it appeared to be little more than the nominal leadership of the Free Syrian Army and the miniscule Syriac Military Council. The groups called on the US to expand their airstrikes beyond ISIS and al-Qaeda and against Assad’s military as well.
I end this briefing on a humorous note……..the US Congress……….do I need to say more?
Thanx for your attention and time…..further SITREPs will be issued as needed………
Turn the page!
‘F*ck You and Your False Patriotism’ – YouTube
Brilliant! A more brilliant take down can not be found! I love this guy!
We are at WAR! And the mouthpiece of the American Moron Party is working double time to condemn war…..yes you heard me right…CONDEMN!
I have always thought Jon Stewart was good at his job….but recently he proved to me that the man is a flipping GENIUS!
One click shopping!
Watch the video and you tell me!
▶ Jon Stewart on Fox News’s ‘Latte Salute’ Coverage: ‘F*ck You and Your False Patriotism’ – YouTube.
ISIS: Never Underestimate The Enemy
OMG! FOX News should be jerking off in their lunch pail……Obama has said….”we underestimated the scope of ISIS”…..OMG! OMG!
Asked if the rise of the Islamic State caught the United States by surprise, President Obama gives a resounding affirmative: “That’s true,” he tells Steve Kroft in a 60 Minutes interview airing tonight. “That’s absolutely true.” After US marines crushed the militants in Iraq, he continues, “they went back underground, but over the past couple of years, during the chaos of the Syrian civil war, they were able to reconstitute themselves and take advantage of that chaos.” The terror group used “very savvy” social media skills, sold “foreign fighters (on) their jihadist nonsense,” and turned Syria into “ground zero for jihadists around the world.”
“That’s why it’s so important for us to recognize part of the solution here is gonna be military,” Obama continued, emphasizing the administration’s plan to “push them back, and shrink their space.” House Speaker John Boehner, speaking today on ABC’s This Week, seemed to take that line a bit farther, saying, “At the end of the day, I think it’s gonna take more than airstrikes to drive them outta there. At some point somebody’s boots have to be on the ground.” Asked if those boots should be American, he said: “We have no choice. These are barbarians. They intend to kill us. And if we don’t destroy them first, we’re gonna pay the price.”
I have a couple of thoughts on this revelation…….on the one hand, it is refreshing to hear some honesty coming out of the mouth of a politician…….I say refreshing because we would have NOT gotten such honesty from a previous administration……….and on the other hand….I have been criticizing the intel community for some years now as out of touch……..
My problem with this relavation is that there is one special media outlet will try to make that some sort of campaign issue trying to help struggling morons in the upcoming mid-terms……
May be we will see a new day in speaking about the war we are now fighting…..
thoughts?
ISIS: Could It Be Death From Within?
Inkwell Institute
Middle East Desk
This post is a moot point…..the US led coalition has started its assault on ISIS in Syria with airstrikes…….so the suggestions in this piece are not going to be taken seriously….but I feel that this is still a viable solution that will cost much fewer lives…….I apologize not posting it sooner but as usual events got the better of me.
Everybody concerned is scrambling around looking for the perfect solution for defeating the rise and expansion of the terrorists group known as ISIS….the US is dashing around trying to put together a coalition that will give some sort of credibility to our involvement in Iraq and the Middle East ……again.
Could the answer be as simple as death from within?
An interesting concept or thought……ISIS destroying itself……..the idea came from something I read the other day……..
It’s tempting to go after ISIS with military might, but that strategy will eventually backfire, writes Chelsea Manning from her prison cell at Fort Leavenworth. Based on her stint as an analyst in Iraq, Manning says that using “bombs and bullets,” is exactly what the group wants. Not only will it help recruitment, it will let ISIS justify its brutality by pointing to the big bad West, writes Manning in the Guardian. So what to do instead? Among other things, the world should set up temporary borders and let ISIS try to do what it says it can—govern a state.
“In a contained area and over a long enough period,” it’s doomed to fail. “This might begin to discredit the leadership and ideology of ISIS for good.” Smart containment and an international moratorium on ransoms to cut off the group’s money supply will help, but having the discipline to let ISIS unravel on its own is key. The militants are “wielding a sharp, heavy and very deadly double-edged sword,” writes Manning. “Now just wait for them to fall on it.” Click for the full column.
Manning has a point. The coalition could have contained ISIS within a defined area and allowed it to consume itself.
But what type of defined area are we speaking about?
Think back to 1991…..Bush1’s war…..do you remember a tactic called the “no-fly zone”?
France, Great-Britain and the United States established successively, in 1991 and 1992, two zones in Iraq from which all flights by Iraqi fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft were excluded. When they were established, these zones were patrolled by France, British and American combat planes based, for the northern zone, at the Incirlik base near Adana in Turkey, and, for the southern zone, at bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
The first zone was situated north of latitude 36° N. It was established on 7 April 1991, six weeks after the end of the first « Gulf War ». It covered notably the city of Mossoul.
The second air exclusion zone was established south of latitude 32° N on 27 August 1992 and included the southern city of Basra. In September 1996 the United States and United Kingdom enlarged this zone up to the 33th degree of latitude while France distanced itself from this measure and never patrolled this new area.
A similar idea could be established around the areas that ISIS controls…..they could do what they will within the area but once outside the zones they would be attacked and destroyed.
