The Obama Administration continues to poke the ISIS hornet’s nest with a stick today, escalating airstrikes against targets around the valuable Mosul Dam. Everyone agrees the strikes won’t be decisive in the war against ISIS, but they’re definitely getting the US noticed, in a bad way.
Once content to focus on targets in Syria and Iraq, ISIS is now threatening to attack Americans at any time and any place in the world, and vows “we will drown you all in blood.”
The administration has used the “threat” of ISIS as a pretext for its war, but the reality is that the threat is almost entirely a function of the US having thrust itself into the war in the first place.
It isn’t even just ISIS, though surely making America a target of the biggest and best-funded Islamist faction on the planet wasn’t the wisest of moves. Other jihadist groups, like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) are also stepping up calls for strikes on the US, citing the Iraq strikes.
Jihadist groups the world over are putting themselves back on a US-centric path because of America’s new involvement in the Iraq war, and will likely enjoy an influx of recruits with such a new, high-profile target.
I think now the government can finally proclaim "Mission accomplished".
A friend and I were having lunch last week where we discussed Iraq.
He mentioned how (evil) ISIS is, and even equated the organization
to the Nazi movement during the 1930s in Europe.
I reminded him that the Nazis were responsible for carnage that left
50 million humans dead, 6 million of the Jewish faith murdered, and
Europe in shambles. There is no comparison.
Second, there would be no ISIS today if it wasn't for the phony war
Bush and his neocon henchmen launched in 2003. The USG is directly
responsible for the destruction of Iraq. The people of this shattered
country deserve better than the crap they're getting now.
Oboomer's air strikes, and continued dumping weapons into Iraq/Syria
has only made matters worse. It turns my stomach knowing somebody
actually gave this guy the Nobel Peace Prize.
Obviously the Nobel Committee felt a dire need to redefine "peace."