Here Turkish political analyst Ceylan Ozbudak tells readers that Turkey’s parliament would have to pass a resolution allowing military operations against ISIS in Iraq, and that no such resolution has yet been agreed upon. One wonders why the delay in that, as Ms. Ozbudak reports, ISIS has already attacked the Turkish Embassy in Mosul taking diplomats […]
Battle of Amirli
By working in concert and with assistance from U.S. airstrikes, the Iraqi military, Shiite militiamen and Kurdish peshmerga forces have pushed ISIS back from Amirli, saving 15,000 Turkmen. An Associated Press report by Sinan Salaheddin tells the story at Military.com. About 15,000 Shiite Turkmens were stranded in the farming community, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of […]
Mop Up Manpower
As I write , the U.S. can play a part in a defined mission to kill the head of the ISIS snake. But as Pat Buchanan correctly posts: “As the Syrians, Turks, Kurds, and Iraqis have the proximity and manpower to defeat ISIS, they should do this job themselves.” In otherwise boots-on-the-ground mop up work […]
Can ISIS Continue to Win?
In Iraq’s Sunni dominant North West, ISIS has made rapid gains while only fielding a combat force estimated at between 6,000 and 10,000 soldiers. It’s not surprising that local Sunnis haven’t put up much of a fight given the rough treatment they’ve received from the Shia dominated al-Maliki administration in Baghdad. Why would they fight against […]
What Will it Take to Stop ISIS?
Angelo Codevilla describes here his plan to defeat ISIS by “by war in the dictionary meaning of the word. To make war is to kill the spirit as well as the body of the enemy, so terribly as to make sure that it will not rise again, and that nobody will want to imitate it.” Codevilla […]
Pat Buchanan on Killing ISIS
In To Defeat the Islamic State, Pat Buchanan outlines the most likely scenario for the leader of ISIS. “As for Abu al-Baghdadi,the self-proclaimed successor to Muhammed, my bet is that he closes out his brief career at an unscheduled meeting with Seal Team 6.” Pat writes: The decisions that determined the fate of the great nations […]
Who is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?
Baghdadi, a nom de guerre, is the treacherous leader of ISIS (ISIL). The U.S. has already designated Baghdadi a “terrorist” and placed a $10m reward on information leading to his capture or death. It is clear that the latter choice is now mandatory. Americans can get behind this option once the specific mission is explained […]
Sunnis/Shia: War and Bloodshed since the 7th Century
Today in Iraq and Syria the world is facing a centuries old battle of Muhammadism. Muhammadism is strictly a religious and not a nationalist issue. Western values carry no weight in the world of Islam. The Bush administration charged into Iraq with little in the way of an end game, and under false pretenses at […]
ISIS: Contain, Disrupt, Defeat
Dateline: the Aspen Security Forum 2014 General Martin Dempsey, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks about the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham noting that the ancient kingdom of al-Sham stretched from Lebanon to the current state of Israel to Syria to Jordan to Iraq and to Kuwait. General Dempsey says about ISIS, “They […]
Former bin-Laden unit chief on Iraq
Michael Scheuer explains to readers that “Obama, McCain, Graham, Hillary Clinton and much of the media continue to talk the absolute rot of building an ‘inclusive government’ in Iraq in place of Maliki’s regime.” Scheuer continues: This is not going to happen in the lifespan of any of our leaders, nor even in the lifespan […]
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