Six weeks of ever-intensifying US airstrikes have had Obama Administration officials hyping the “progress” in their new war in Iraq. The situation on the ground, however, doesn’t bare that out.
Far from progress, the situation on the ground appears virtually unchanged in six weeks, with only a handful of frontline towns changing hands and ISIS controlling the same massive chunk of Iraq it did when the US started launching attacks.
The airstrikes changed ISIS tactics, and have them no longer leaving expensive US-made vehicles out in the open, but it’s a distinction without a difference as the group is simply harder to hit, and no less entrenched.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempts to spin the new Iraqi government as a “success story” also doesn’t seem to be producing any results, as the Sunni tribal factions that were so opposed to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki aren’t running to get behind his successor, a member of the same party who holds many of the same positions.
The administration’s decision to launch an air war on ISIS, despite no chance it would actually accomplish any of its stated goals, was not accidental. Rather, it will inevitably give way to a new push from Congressional hawks to further escalate the war as a face-saving measure.
They said that they are going to bomb the selected target, that because they want for this war to continue otherwise eliminating ISIS or ISL or whatever satanic name they have, they can be eliminated if they forced Turkish Erdogan regime not to buy ISIS oil, stolen from Syria, meanwhile bombing them is a good thing but not effective as total ISIS oil embargo.
Will the Supreme Warmonger in Chief invade Yemen as an alternative to fighting on the ground in Iraq? The Houthis should be easier to fight than ISIS and provide a temporary illusion of victory.
Oh, the fog of half-truths and lies.
I'm sure a lot of civilians will die in this attack, if the locations shown last night on the news are any indicator. This is why we could never criticize Israel for what it did in Gaza. We were planning to do the same kind of thing.
It occurs to me that if Turkey, a member of NATO, is attacked (either by ISIS or by Kurdish nationalists), then the member nations must pile on.
Simultaneously there seem to be plans to take out Assad (who opposed rebel groups which contained ISIS elements), but perhaps he will be left until last. But if you are already bombing in Syria—
Who is calling the shots?
The people behind the curtain. Whoever they might be. Obama is their mouthpiece.