US warplanes expanded the range of their airstrikes in Iraq once again today, targeting ISIS southwest of Baghdad in what officials are saying is part of a “new phase” of more aggressive strikes on them.
Centcom described the strike as part of an attempt to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS, and confirmed attacks on vehicles near Sinjar in the nation’s northwest as well.
Since President Obama’s Wednesday speech, announcing a planned expansion of the war into Syria, there have been multiple predictions of an escalation of the war in Iraq as well, which seem to be panning out.
Yet Centcom insisted only that the attacks are an expansion “beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions,” which isn’t true, since several past US airstrikes in Anbar and Nineveh Provinces were launched primarily to help Kurdish and Iraqi troops on the ground as well.
Officials have suggested the first attacks inside Syria may not come for weeks, but that more escalations inside Iraq can be expected in the coming days.
The ISIS is the last kind of mankind from 500bc, they don't deserve to exist in 2014. They should be eliminated by the Kurdish, Iraqi and the Iranian government.
An oil rich nation is having a civil war, a three-state solution being the perfect solution, yet Empire USA arbitrarily starts dropping bombs here, there and everywhere. Making negotiation, dialogue and settlement a near impossibility is our Empire, high time we put out of it’s misery such a cannibalizing and self-serving vampire.
"Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy."
Actions speak louder than words, Mr. President. And so far sending airstrikes against a dispersed and hidden target – like ISIL – consumes a lot of firepower, for minimum results.
Vietnam taught us that.
Which raises the question: Is Obama really going after ISIL, or is he just pretending to?
Check out today's article and find out Obama's strategy – or lack of it – for dealing with ISIL.
http://www.survivopedia.com/svp-obamas-isis-speec…