Sometimes things just come together, without even having a plan, and sometimes even well made plans end up backfiring.
I'm saying that all he had to do is to sit back and watch those on the right inadvertantly make him a hero.
And yes, it is "a weird mixture of pathetic and funny as Hell." I'm glad we could agree on that part.
The media has hyped up the evilness and the power and strength of ISIS to the American public. You have Fox News which spent weeks ranting about Christians being persecuted by ISIS, and idiots like Rep. Trent Franks and Gov. Rick Perry, Lou Barletta, and Marco Rubio who have all been claiming that ISIS is planning on attacking us. That Franks guy claimed that we know it to be a fact that ISIS "we know that ISIS is present in Ciudad Juarez or they were within the last few weeks..."
Here is an ISIS fighter boasting that the air strikes are not militarily effective.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/29/world/meast/isis-fighter-and-defector-interviews/index.
Sadly, he is probably right. ISIS is an army of militiamen operating is relatively small groups whose main armoured vehicles are pick up trucks turned into Mad Max style "technicals". Most supplies- and they dont need alot, are requisitioned from the locals (voluntarily, forcibly or coerced) and transported in individual civilian trucks. Likewise, there are not alot of easily demarcated front lines in the fighting.
As the similarily orgainized Serbs demonstrated in Kosovo, these types of forces mix in with civilians and can be very difficult to identify and stop. Then factor in that ISIS includes members who are veterans of both Iraq and Afghan conflicts who probably have a long list produced list of "dos and donts" produced by Darwinism when it comes to avoiding precision airstrikes.
In short, my guess is that effective air strikes need US spotters on the ground.
Part of the issue I have with liberals is you
have this extraordinary inability to own your own actions and hold people of similar political ideology accountable for their own actions. It's always someone else's fault. There's always an excuse and someone else to blame. Hell...even NOW in your need to excuse, he only failed because he didn't wait long enough.
Yes, the CIA, FBI, TSA, NSA, ASPCA and NCAA are all hanging out in border towns with pictures of all the ISIS people in case they show up. No doubt these agencies saw 10,000 heavily armed people in a white pickup truck with an ISIS lisence plate and maybe a bumper sticker outside a taqueria. I have NO doubt Trent Franks would believe that. He is an idiot.
Their plan is likely to invade Texas on Halloween, all of disguised in Trayvon Martin masks.
Franks and the other Tea Partisan morons in Washington have their followers all scared because Franks and Rubio and Perry actually believe each other!
Why did you say "you"? I'm not a liberal. Have you ever met a liberal who wanted to eliminate means tested welfare, or who was willing to accept the flat rate income tax?
Who and I blaming, and for what? I just voiced my on opinion, my personal "reverse wag the dog" conspiracy theory. I didn't blame anyone for anything. Nor did I make excuses. I simply expressed my observations about this situation, and presented my theory as to why and how the events happened like they did.
I'm not excusing anyone for failure, I dunno what failure you are even talking about. The "war" against ISIS certainly hasn't failed, we are still in this thing.
Breaking news....the enemy declares their foes actions are ineffective.
What do you expect ISIS to say?
Obama does this to himself. Dont blame everyone else for noting the obvious.
Are you going to 'name names'?Close. One frequent Fox News contributor, a retired army general, claimed that ISIS was going to attack us on Sept 11th of this year. Obviously, he was wrong...as usual.
The same guy also predicted that Iran was going to attack us with the missing passenger jet on that same date. That didn't happen either - imagine that.
And who said it was? Are you sure you're okay?Yeah, it was Obama who foolishly invaded Iraq, even though there was no WMD and no al Qaeda connection. It was Obama who destabilized the entire region by giving Iran hegemony and wasting billions on nation building in Afghanistan. It was Obama who alienated our allies by going it alone in an hare-brained policy of spending billions on a corrupt puppet government in Baghdad.
Wait . . . it wasn't . . .
Yeah, it was Obama who foolishly invaded Iraq, even though there was no WMD and no al Qaeda connection. It was Obama who destabilized the entire region by giving Iran hegemony and wasting billions on nation building in Afghanistan. It was Obama who alienated our allies by going it alone in an hare-brained policy of spending billions on a corrupt puppet government in Baghdad.
Wait . . . it wasn't . . .
Are you going to 'name names'?
For any person of character, yes.It should be easy enough, right?
Sure you did. Is it REALLY so hard for you to say "Obama declared war and/because it is the right thing to do"?
Or at LEAST because he BELIEVED it was the right thing to do and not because he was tricked and coerced by Fox News and those evil republicans? Geeeeeezus. It's the same pathetic thing again and again and again. It's not his fault. He didn't know. The rotate his homework. The sun was in his eyes. Fox News was mean to him.
You know what? Liberal politicians believed Saddam Hussein was a threat long before George Bush. They cite his threat and possession of WMDS long before Bush. Clinton took us to war citing genocide, just as Bush did. And Barrack Hussein By God Obama ****ed up, underestimated the ISIS threat, and is trying to rectify his mistake by striking them of his own free will and choice.
...That is physical damage to buildings, bridges, structures. But there is a lot more that needs to be done besides blowing things up.
Then if ISIS moves into the cities, into schools, hospitals, mosques, etc to escape the bombing, they we know what we have done and are doing is hurting them instead of pin pricks.
ISIS then will be daring us to hit them, they would love nothing better than to have video of bombed schools, mosques, hospitals along with the dead to spread around the world. Time will tell, nothing to do now but to sit and wait, to watch and listen.
Are you going to 'name names'?
And who said it was? Are you sure you're okay?
It was Obama who lost the Peace in Iraq for votes. To do so, he ignored (then blamed) his military staff, and the iraqi's.
No amount of hissing will change the facts. :2wave:
It was Obama who lost the Peace in Iraq for votes. To do so, he ignored (then blamed) his military staff, and the iraqi's.
No amount of hissing will change the facts. :2wave:
Please explain to our listening audience EXACTLY HOW Obama "lost the peace (no cap, it isn't a movie yet) in Iraq".....
How do you know that we need to do more? Are you with the CIA or the military? Do you have information that the government is not sharing with us?
If ISIS does that then they are no longer taking additional territory, and they no longer pose a significant threat to the area. It's mighty hard to be in charge when you are hiding.
If ISIS goes into hiding, then we won't have the need to hit them. Our mission will be accomplished. At least until they morph into the next muslum extremist group, and then we will have to repeat. This is something that is going to keep happening until muslums are willing to give up on extremism, which likely isn't going to be any time soon. Iraq will not be safe from radical groups until the next iron fist evil dictator, like Saddam Husein, takes over.
Sure you did. Is it REALLY so hard for you to say "Obama declared war and/because it is the right thing to do"? Or at LEAST because he BELIEVED it was the right thing to do and not because he was tricked and coerced by Fox News and those evil republicans? Geeeeeezus. It's the same pathetic thing again and again and again. It's not his fault. He didn't know. The rotate his homework. The sun was in his eyes. Fox News was mean to him.
You know what? Liberal politicians believed Saddam Hussein was a threat long before George Bush. They cite his threat and possession of WMDS long before Bush. Clinton took us to war citing genocide, just as Bush did. And Barrack Hussein By God Obama ****ed up, underestimated the ISIS threat, and is trying to rectify his mistake by striking them of his own free will and choice.
Here is an ISIS fighter boasting that the air strikes are not militarily effective.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/29/world/meast/isis-fighter-and-defector-interviews/index.
Sadly, he is probably right. ISIS is an army of militiamen operating is relatively small groups whose main armoured vehicles are pick up trucks turned into Mad Max style "technicals". Most supplies- and they dont need alot, are requisitioned from the locals (voluntarily, forcibly or coerced) and transported in individual civilian trucks. Likewise, there are not alot of easily demarcated front lines in the fighting.
As the similarily orgainized Serbs demonstrated in Kosovo, these types of forces mix in with civilians and can be very difficult to identify and stop. Then factor in that ISIS includes members who are veterans of both Iraq and Afghan conflicts who probably have a long list produced list of "dos and donts" produced by Darwinism when it comes to avoiding precision airstrikes.
In short, my guess is that effective air strikes need US spotters on the ground.
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