Provincial officials in the Anbar Province, which if anyone is keeping track is about 80% under the control of ISIS, have warned that ISIS is making more gains, overrunning the town of Bagdadi as of Thursday morning.
That’s a bigger problem than most towns being lost, as it puts ISIS forces less than five miles away from Ayn al-Assad air base, where some 320 US ground troops are stationed as “advisers.”
When the US first put troops in Anbar, it set up a lot of red flags, with many warning it wouldn’t be long before those troops found themselves on the front-lines of the war and entering direct combat. It seems that time is getting extremely close.
Pentagon officials confirmed the loss of Baghdadi, but said that so far there were only reports of “ineffective indirect fire” in the area around the base. That fire is likely to get much less indirect as ISIS gets its artillery into the area close to the base.
If our CIA has always been in complete control of the Islomic State, then the game plan must be for there never to be so much as a single shootout between them and the US military.
Some people don't believe the USG "planners" would sacrifice American soldiers to satisfy the plans of Empire. Of course the base where the "Trainers" are stationed is quickly becoming a forward installation. The planners understood this would happen and decided the cost (loss of US troops) was acceptable. To the planners, this falls under the category of "acceptable losses."
With the first US casualty all the spineless Congress Critters will knock each other over to be first in line to sign onto Obama's new war. His new Declaration of War will be passed unanimously.
Hey, it's a good thing we didn't put 'boots on the ground' or anything like that, right?
Then again, this has the potential to be a small-scale version of Khe Sahn if we're lucky- or a small-scale Dien Bien Phu if we're not so lucky. I suspect that very soon, everything that can fly and drop bombs or missiles will be in the air for around-the-clock sorties to keep ISIS at bay- and I also suspect the public-relations spinmeisters are already figuring out ways to explain all the American deaths if this gets to be a 'Broken Arrow'- overrun unit- situation.