The Obama Administration is continuing to escalate its ISIS bombings today, with the Pentagon reporting 20 different air raids in the last 24 hours, mostly centered around northern Syria’s Aleppo Province, where ISIS is contesting the Kurdish town of Ayn al-Arab.
The escalation coincides with Britain joining the air war with strikes of its own, and comes as the Pentagon reiterated that “no one should be lulled into a false sense of security by accurate air strikes.”
“We will not, we cannot bomb them into obscurity,” noted Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby, insisting that the war wouldn’t be easy or quick, and that the media was creating unrealistic expectations of a victory by airstrikes.
Yet the White House continues to insist the war will exclusively amount to airstrikes, at least from the American perspective, and has been touting the strikes as a great success. It seems that the narrative of an easy, if not quick, war is being advanced by them as well.
Despite this, ISIS continues to adapt to the increases in airstrikes, moving their valuable US-made vehicles to less conspicuous sites and not leaving troops standing around out in the open.
With little territory changing hands because of the airstrikes, and the Pentagon insisting they aren’t going to lead to victory, the question is looming of what, if anything, they’re accomplishing. Whatever it is, with ISIS adapting, there’s going to be less and less “progress” from more and more strikes in the months and years to come.
Yes USG can bomb its way to victory over Saudi barbarians if they bombed ISIS, if they go after EU/Turkish Erdogan regime Mafiosi oil black market when they buy ISIS stolen syrian and Iraqi oil, if they ask for the Iranian government to start bombing ISIS, if they truly helped Iraqi governments and syrian governments with logistic and intelligenc, ISIS would be defeated in two months time. Rest is politics, as usual for the US warmachiney to profit while syrian, Iraqi, Kurdish people are suffering.
What are they accomplishing? They are fanning the flames and continuing the talk to scare the American people into committing American ground troops to another useless and unwinnable war against Islam. Oh, and they're spending millions and millions of American taxpayer $$$$ on MIC armaments. Have you looked at the stock markets for the defense sector lately? Check out the charts for Northrop Grumman (NOC) for just the last 3 months.
The first season of The Crusades ran for 250 years or so.
No reason whey season 2 should not do the same.
Winning? Not a good plan if you want to go on raking in the royalties running sequels.
Apart from the fact that bombing is very expensive and largely ineffective, there is the courage factor. ISIS rebels are courageous – they are admired even by their enemies for fighting hard and putting their lives at risk.
The knights of the religious orders (Templars, Hospitallers etc.) were exceedingly violent and cruel but we remember them for their fighting ability and their courage.
It is politically expedient to have zero casualties but no war was ever won by political expediency.
The fact that bombing is very expensive and largely ineffective is the whole point.
The purpose of the "ISIS crisis" is to "prime the economic pump" to keep employment artificially high while rewarding cronies at the same time, by keeping defense contractors building Tomahawks, bombs, JDAM kits, replacement aircraft/parts, etc.