ISIS controls most of Iraq’s Anbar Province, and also most of the capital city of Ramadi, but has long let provincial officials more or less alone there, while expanding elsewhere in the nation.
Today that looks to be changing, as ISIS fighters attacked provincial governate offices today, along with a police headquarters in the area, fueling a backlash from local tribal fighters.
Reports from provincial council officials say that the local mosques in Ramadi were issuing a call to arms from the tribal factions for everyone to resist the ISIS expansion in the city.
How big of a response the tribals will receive remains to be seen, but ISIS has been particularly heavy-handed in wiping out tribes that are resisting their rule.
War — Go all out or get out
The Islamic State, be it benevolent or otherwise, is an Empire as it has no choice but to use brutal imperialism to achieve the expansion it needs to avoid a downfall. For when it comes to such a violent form of government, “Security can be achieved only by expansion.”
And being surrounded by such aggressive brutality as Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Syria and all the military might of Empire USA, to judge it’s true morality the Islamic State would first have to be at peace with all its neighbors.
The US broke Iraq and now we're supposed to believe that they are responsible for fixing it. NO! Get out and let the people of Iraq repair it to what Saddam had made it before the phony and trumped up war. Because if not then it's only going to cost hundreds of thousands more lives of innocents.