ISIS is continuing to push its offensive against the Kurdish border town of Ayn al-Arab, and reports on the ground say they’ve been more successful than previously suggested.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ISIS as seized more than 350 villages in the area in the last 16 days, and displaced at least 300,000 people from Ayn al-Arab and the surrounding area.
They continue to get closer to the town, too, despite large numbers of Kurdish militia fighters opposing them. On Monday, they were reportedly 5 km from town. On Tuesday they were 3 km away. This morning, they are said to be only “a few hundred yards” away.
Ayn al-Arab would give ISIS a long, contiguous border with Turkey. The bigger deal would be the psychological impact on the Syrian Kurds, however, who had been successful in defending the town in the past, but seem to be losing ground now in the wake of ISIS offensives.
LOL.
The United States military struggled for years to occupy and control Iraq while for years the violence spiraled out of control. They needed surges and still it took them almost a decade to even begin to get a handle on the situation in Iraq.
………….but ISIS? Why hey, they just roll into town with they're Toyota jeeps and 350 towns (350!) fall to thier complete control. The Iraqi military which we trained for years and armed with the most modern weaponry just flee in complete panic for their lives?
ISIS has no aircraft, satellites, drones, or Cruise Missles…they have little or no formal military training and their command and control structure is altogether unclear. I don't even know the name of thier leader? Do they have a leader?
Is it just me, or is anyone else out there now quite buying all this? I admit I'm a conspiracy theorist and therefore crazy……but I'm far from stupid!
I can't buy it either. It flies in the face of every single lie and fabrication that US AmeriKa Inc, has expected me to seriously choke down in the last 13 years. You can't lie like a rug and then expect any sane, thinking person to believe you IF you tell the truth once in awhile. Your credibility is already shot to hell.
The number of lies told are too many to be excused:
No WMD in Iraq to justify the invasion and occupation. No mass slaughter in Libya to justify the murder of Gaddafi, no WMD attack in Syria to justify an invasion, no Iranian nukes, etc, etc,
Someone benefits from this, some racist Chosenite supremacist state with nukes, WMD, very happy all these nearby enemies vanquished and their nations reduced to anarchy, but let's blame it on oil and the Arab Spring ™ instead of the obvious.