Two weeks ago, the battle for Manbij was supposed to be all but over, with US officials openly bragging that the ISIS fighters within had “nowhere to run” from the advancing US-backed rebels, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The offensive is going poorly since, however, with no real progress in the last 10 days, and ISIS launching multiple counterattacks, over the weekend recovery surrounding villages and today attacking the SDF forces in the city on three different fronts.
ISIS was supposed to be the ones who were surrounded, but after getting some fighters out into the surrounding area, officials with the SDF are talking about having been “evicted” from parts of Manbij, though the reality is that the city itself never really fell from ISIS control.
Manbij is seen as strategically important to ISIS, as the main route between Jarabulus, on the Turkish border, and their capital of ISIS. The SDF have been contesting ISIS territory in northern Raqqa Province for over a month, though apart from trading some villages, nothing decisive has resulted.
Western wars of aggression keep on generating more and more vengeance, a blowback called terrorism is increasing in direct proportion and you who are super good at mathematics should be able to tell us at what point in time Western governments will have to start begging for mercy?
June 30, 2013 World Military Spending
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http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending
September 17, 2014 US Pursues *134** Wars Around the World
The US is now involved in *134* wars or none, depending on your definition of war …The White House spent much of last week trying to figure out if the word “war” was the right one to describe its military actions against the Islamic State.
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35654/US-Pursues-134-Wars-Around-the-World/