ISIS continues to make gains in Iraq’s western Anbar Province, with the military base outside of the city of Hit the latest to fall to an ISIS advance, and costing them one of the last such bases in the province.
Early reports of “heavy fighting” at the Hit base were replaced with reports that the Iraqi ground troops had abandoned the base, though it seems that as usual they were losing the fighting.
The next target for ISIS in the province seems to be the Ayn al-Asad base, on the outskirts of Haditha. This base is said to be surrounded as well, with the fall of that base giving ISIS a straight shot at the important Haditha Dam.
Anbar officials say that they believe ISIS currently controls about 80% of the province, which is Iraq’s largest. The rest of the territory, however, is not under the Iraqi government’s control, by and large, and is just contested.
Doris Day
“Whatever will be, will be.
The future ‘s not ours, to see.
Que Sera, Sera…”
Those who win in war, as the old song goes, surely they are fulfilling destine, but as to their fulfilling some grand scheme of things, some province by intelligent design, this remains to be seen.
So, all this crime and corruption that causes war, what if it were to continue but never again was there a war to change things, for better or for worse to finalize the old and bring on the new?
But surely, would not then this life be totally meaningless? For only if the purpose of this world were to reach the ultimate conclusion of war, only if greater light came after each battle to show the absolute futility of war, only then could we reach the ultimate conclusion so that all things could turn toward the good.
ISIS should send a THANK YOU letter to George W. Bush, the imbecile responsible for the bogus
2003 invasion of Iraq, its brutal occupation, and sponsoring the so-called Awakening Groups which
morphed into what ISIS is today. Save space on the back page of the letter to include thanks for
Oboomer's 'Grand Strategy'.