The half-measures that Obama is pursuing against the Islamic State will never destroy it. The lives being lost there are being lost in pursuit of the cosmetic appearance of doing something, not in pursuit of genuinely damaging the Islamic State.
“American soldier killed in ISIS rocket attack in northern Iraq, official says,” by Lucas Tomlinson, Fox News, March 19, 2016:
An American soldier was killed within the past 24 hours when a rocket fired by ISIS landed near his position in the town of Makhmur, 75 miles southeast of Mosul, a U.S. defense official told Fox News Saturday.
“It was a lucky strike by ISIS,” the official said..
The Pentagon is expected to make an announcement shortly.
The US-led coalition fighting ISIS released a statement about the attack Saturday morning, but the nationality of the soldier was withheld. It said the soldier was killed by “enemy action,” but was not more specific.
The soldier is the second American killed fighting ISIS since combat operations began in August 2014.
In October, a Delta Force master sergeant was killed during a daring hostage rescue in Iraq.
The death of Army Master Sgt Joshua Wheeler was the first American casualty in Iraq since the withdrawal of US forces in 2011.
There are roughly 3,700 US troops on the ground in Iraq advising the Iraqi Army. Earlier this month, a brigade from the 101st Airborne Division relieved a similar sized brigade from the 82nd Airborne Division.
In December, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the deployment of a 200-man special operations task force to Northern Iraq to begin kill/capture missions against the Islamic State….

brian464 says
Before Islam came into existence, what doctrine or ideology or belief motivated a person like Cain to kill Abel ?
FOR DETAILS ABOUT NON-MILITANT INTERVENTIONIST POLICIES AS A MUCH BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO PROFIT DRIVEN WARS OR CONFLICTS:
http://worldpeacethroughworldwidedisarmament.blogspot.com/2013/07/911-attacks-could-have-been-prevented.html
Angemon says
Is that the official Obama administration stance? Because if it is, American troops in the area have all reasons to start worrying and assuming it was anything but a lucky strike…
Christianblood says
Don’t blame it on Obama alone because cozying up to islamic jihadist barbarity was the hallmark if US gov policies for the past 50 years. For example, in the short video clip below, the former US National security adviser (Zbigniew Brzezinski) tells a gathering of senior Talibani/Alqaeda Islamic jihadists this: “Your cause is right and God is on your side”. Please watch the short video clip below and see how he sincerely encourages the jihadists to carry out their jihad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9RCFZnWGE0
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Don’t blame it on Obama alone because cozying up to islamic jihadist barbarity was the hallmark if US gov policies for the past 50 years. ”
I blame Soviet-exported Cultural Marxism.
Christianblood says
Angemon
Has this “Soviet-exported Cultural Marxism” also paralyzed the decision-making abilities of this well-liked US president who invited members of the Taliban and Al-qaeda barbaric jihadists into the White House and heaped praises on them? Watch the video clip please:
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Angemon
Has this “Soviet-exported Cultural Marxism””
The source of most, if not all, that’s wrong with the West nowadays.
“also paralyzed the decision-making abilities of this well-liked US president who invited members of the Taliban and Al-qaeda barbaric jihadists into the White House and heaped praises on them?”
You mean, the people who were fighting against a Soviet invasion meant to force on them a regime that was killing tens of thousands of Afghani political dissidents? Were it not for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan there probably would be no Al-Qaeda or ISIS.
Peter Charles says
Z. B. was never a man who was the best or brightest, no matter what he says.
Christianblood says
Peter Charles
Realistically speaking, It has nothing to do with Z.B.’s brightness or lack thereof. It has everything to do with the decades old, pro islamic US policies which are always cozying up to barbaric islamic governments and islamic jihadist groups. Even after arming and aiding the Taliban and Alqaeda to fight with Russia, US and its Nato vassals continued on siding with islamic jihadists in the Balkans by bombing Christian Serbia and creating two islamic states (Bosnia & Kosovo) in the heart of Europe. And today US and Nato continue with their pro jihadist policies by destroying and regime changing secular Arab dictators and replacing them with barbaric islamic jihadists in Iraq, in Yemen, in Libya and now they are trying to do the same (unsuccessfully) in Syria.
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Realistically speaking, It has nothing to do with Z.B.’s brightness or lack thereof. It has everything to do with the decades old, pro islamic US policies which are always cozying up to barbaric islamic governments and islamic jihadist groups.”
No. Not really. I seem to recall the US is not in good standing with, for example, the Iranian regime. Who is it that considers Hamas and Hezbollah to be, not terrorist groups, but legitimate, democratic forces? Certainly not the US. And was it that took out Bin Laden? Oh, yeah – the US (despite Obama). For a nation that’s, according to you, “always cozying up to barbaric islamic governments and islamic jihadist groups“, that simply makes no sense.
“Even after arming and aiding the Taliban and Alqaeda to fight with Russia”
Now, now – don’t lie by omission, CB. Russia invaded Afghanistan to keep in place a regime that was killing tens of thousands of Afghani political dissidents. Were it not for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan would al-qaeda even exist?
“And today US and Nato continue with their pro jihadist policies by destroying and regime changing secular Arab dictators and replacing them with barbaric islamic jihadists in Iraq, in Yemen, in Libya and now they are trying to do the same (unsuccessfully) in Syria.”
Exactly which jihadi dictators were placed by the US to replace Arab secular dictators? I’m calling bulls*** on that one.
SoCalMike says
Obama created the Islamic State and has empowered Islamic Jihad at every step.
He is a traitor.
People should stop pretending he’s really doing anything against our enemies.
He sees middle America as the enemy.
Arm Iran with nukes. Invite jihadis here by leaving the border open and through the open door immigration process and disarm regular Americans.
Get it?
We are just conformed cowards too afraid to tell the truth about him because we are so afraid of his supporters and even-non supporters will call us racist.
Walter Sieruk says
This is sad and tragic. Furthermore,about that brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS. Most people know that the head and chief of that is a man who goes by the name of al Baghdadi By contrast, what few people seem to know is that al Baghdadi is just a figurehead and a puppet rulers of ISIS. That the actual and real head and chief of that heinous and dangerous jihad organization is someone else. Who that “someone else” has been exposed in the book entitled THE ISIS CRISIS by Charles Dyer. For on page 166 the author explains that “The ultimate commander of ISIS remains unseen by most of his followers, but he is not unknown. This commander is Satan himself… Satan moves across the earth ‘like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.’ [First Peter 5:8.] Therefore, the vicious jihadist thugs who compose ISIS are, in realty, vicious, malicious and deluded fools who are being use by Satan, as his stooges and tools, to inflict demonic murderous harm on humankind. So must so that those violent wicked and insanely deluded jihad savages who make up ISIS are like those callous characters described in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. That teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” In addition, those malice-filled fiendish jihadists of ISIS are so very bloodthirstily, ruinous dangerous and murderous that they are similar to, in character, the hideous villains described in the Bible. Which reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood: ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” Romans 3:15-17. [N.I.V.]