Barack Obama and John Kerry want to keep you ignorant and complacent regarding the Islamic State’s gains. For them, it is all about maintaining the electoral advantage of their party — not that their rivals in the Stupid Party have the wit or the will or the patriotism to call the nation’s attention to what is really happening.
“Islamic State seizes Syria’s last border crossing with Iraq,” Reuters, May 21, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Islamic State militant group has seized the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq controlled by the Syrian government after security forces withdrew, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday.
Iraqi officials said Iraqi security forces had also withdrawn from their side of the crossing known as al-Waleed in Iraq and al-Tanf in Syria. The crossing is in Syria’s Homs province, where Islamic State on Wednesday seized the historic city of Palmyra from government forces.
It was not immediately clear when Islamic State took the site.
An Islamic State fighter contacted by Reuters confirmed the group had taken control of the crossing, which is a 240 km (150 miles) drive from Palmyra, known as Tadmur in Arabic.
Islamic State also controls a border crossing between Syrian province of Deir al-Zor and the Iraqi province of Anbar, while a border crossing between the two countries in northeastern Syria is controlled by a Kurdish militia, the YPG….
mortimer says
The only thing that will stop ISIS is sending in special forces from every Western country. If the Seals were able to fly in and take out Bin Laden, they can take out anyone else. Imagine the effect of 20 Western countries doing 100 raids each on the leaders of ISIS. They would be rendered leaderless in two or three months and incapable of offensive operations. Arabs are tribalists who only fight for their own tribe…never for a country. Inbreeding is the only motive for an Arab to fight.
However, the biggest fight is counter-ideology. Western intelligence agencies need to quietly find ways to disprove political Islam as a divine ideology and convince Muslims it’s entirely a human fabrication. That’s the only way to stop political Islam.
Angemon says
Why risk the lives of soldiers? Drop a couple of nukes in the middle of the bastards. That would unequivocally show all muslims worldwide that allah is not on their side and that their dreams of a caliphate are not meant to be
Oliver says
Dropping nukes will also destroy Israel.
The stuff stays- and also is easily spread over wide areas by wind.
Also, a person infected MIGHT NOT KNOW IT- AND HAVE IT SHOW UP 40 OR MORE YEARS LATER.
(THE LATTER HAPPENED TO MY BROTHER. IN THE MID TO LATE 1950’S– AS AN 18 YEAR OLD, -IN THE USAF–HE WAS TAKEN TO SEE A BOMB TESTS, IN NEVADA, THE PACIFIC, ETC. –HE WAS EXTREMELY BRIGHT; TRI-LINGUAL; AND WAS CONSIDERED FOR THE -THEN NEW- AIR FORCE ACADEMY. IN 1998–HE DEVELOPED THIS RARE CANCER- CAUSED BY EXPOSURE. FAST MOVING-GOES TO THE BRAIN BUT IS NOT BRAIN CANCER; THE LUNGS BUT IS NOT LUNG CANCER; THE OTHER ORGANS, ETC. AND HE WAS ONE OF MANY
Cecilia Ellis says
Our failure to tactically respond with massive force against ISIS has sent a unequivocal message to the jihadists: Allah is fighting with them; that is why they are winning.
That we failed to detect extensive caravans of Toyotas filled with black-flag fighters on long, otherwise-empty stretches of highways, is not accurate. Reuters was able to detect and photograph them. I assure you that we have the capability to read the license tags on those stolen vehicles, from thirty miles high. That tells me that we simply ignored the obvious. The question is why?
We can debate the variety of reasons, but one thing upon which we all must agree: Obama has blood on his hands, the blood of thousands of ISIS victims. He has, in essence, become the 21st Century Pilate. Perhaps they share the same motive . . .
Avenger says
Cecillia, during the 1990 Kuwait war, the U.S. Air Force devastated Saddam Husseins retreating motorized columns evacuating Kuwait City in the dead of night. Twenty five years later, Obama and cabinet brag about a covert operation that assassinates a couple of replaceable ISIS cretins- wow.
I’d be a lot more impressed with thousands of smoldering ISIS corpses littered around their captured American tanks and Humvees.
I think Erdogan and Obama are up to no good. An old fashioned firing squad should stop their mischievous ways.
Sabri S. says
Congratulations are in order for the Sunni s and v outrageous fighters who
Are retaking their country back. It took over a decade, but eventually the puppet
Shi te government put in power by the us will fall – and fall hard. After assad is wiped
Out in syria, every town but baghdad will fall in short order. The chickens are truly
Coming home to roost on this one….islam ic state 3, the u s 0 and c ounting!
Darren says
We should back and arm the Kurds, support their ground assault with our intel capabilities, and air strikes, while having advisers and some special ops unit imbedded with the Kurdish assault force. By the way did you know if you turn your islamic state flag upside down it looks like 3 guys banging sheep? Is the islamic state high command trying to send a subliminal message to their members?
Angemon says
Sabri S. posted:
“Congratulations are in order for the Sunni s and v outrageous fighters who
Are retaking their country back.”
On another topic you stated that you wanted westerners out of islamic coutries. Does that include the ethnic europeans who joined the islamic state? Are they “retaking” their country too?
Avenger says
@ Sabri S
You are correct, the West and Shia Iran will soon be driven from Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Turkey will then acknowledge ISIS as a legitimate government and become its ally.
I predict in a year ISIS will also control Nigeria and Niger and Somalia.
The U.S. State department is doing its best to oust Elsisi in Egypt, which will bring back the Muslim Brotherhood, who will then submit to ISIS in a heart beat.
Isis will then use its U.S. made explosives to reduce the pyramids into a boulder field and U.S. made M-16’s to exterminate the last of the Coptic Egyptians.
You should sleep well tonight Sabri.
Baucent says
The outcome in Syria is increasingly obvious to everyone but Obama and Kerry; the Assad regime will fall to ISIS, most likely before the end of this year. He will flee of course to Iran.
Only Western military intervention can prevent this, and there is no political will in any Western nation to commit troops on the ground to save Assad’s hide.
So the future is a de facto Caliphate based around Syria and half of Iraq, a festering sore that will blight the world for decades to come. And then they will focus of Israel.
Henry says
The threat is not ISIS ,it is Islam . ISIS and all other Jihadist movements, are but the military branch of Islam. Islam is a seditious political system disguised as a religion to obtain world domination . Muslim’s are but one in nature . There isn’t any difference between them ,other than either you are Sunni or Shiite . Our leaders , in all governmental branches , have failed since the truth has been replaced by political correctness . This has allowed Islam to obtain the ability to infiltrate and start destroying the Judeo-Christian values and civilization . The irony of it all is that the most powerful Judeo-Christian nation has been the force of Islam’s present surge. Why is this political system ,which is contrary in all aspects to our constitution and values , not banned from our nation ? Are we so blind that under our noses they are invading us little by little with this administration knowledge and consent? We may be the most advanced technological nation , but at the same time we are the most politically ignorant one. The vast majority of voters are uninformed or do not care. However with to smiles a hand wave or shake or physical presentation , they vote without even thinking . This is the failure of democracy and it is reflected in the present administration .
Marco says
ISIS doing exactly what imam Obama equipped them to do with our arms. Deny the imam and he just goes around you and does it anyway. He gives not one thought of the human loss and unimaginable suffering his boys in ISIS will bring. He cares only that he gets what he wants.
Avenger says
The U.S. Air Force decimated Serbian Christian ground forces in weeks, even in forested and hilled terrain. We also bombed the heart of major Serb cities killing civilians, destroying bridges and leveling military bases. Americans were delighted.
Now to the present- with constant U.S. air strikes we can’t even knock out our own captured MI-A tanks, half tracks, Humvees, bulldozers or munition depots. All these rich targets, glow like neon lights at night using infrared imaging, especially in desert conditions where even lowly drones would be very effective. Either our air force is a worthless sham, bought with taxpayers money, or its being directed by our POS president to bomb tumble weeds.
If its feckless top military brass then fire their asses, if it’s Obama and State Department, then remove from public service now!
Cecilia Ellis says
Well said!
Don says
This is just in:
Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this
moment arrived from the Malabar front. Our forces in South
India have won a glorious victory. I am authorized to say
that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war
within measurable distance of its end. Here is the newsflash—
—’
Stan says
I believe that all of us should stop using the title Islamic State without its modifier:muslim. We should write “muslim Islamic State”.