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The ISIS is winning, because the CIA and the NATO want it to oust Bashar al Assad. If the NATO is serious about defeating ISIS, then it can be achieved by one small step. Just seal the Syria-Turkey border. ISIS is getting its Jihadi reinforcements through that border. If the Syria-Turkey border is sealed, then ISIS will run out of manpower in a few months and will be easily defeated, as it is not that successful in recruiting local Sunni Arabs. But the defeat of the ISIS will indirectly help Assad, and therefore the CIA will never allow it.
They are winning because they have the more compelling narrative. We don't like to admit it, but there is a huge movement toward Islam. We think we can shoot a powerful idea to death, but the people we are fighting are more committed than we are, and actually believe in the morality of what they are doing. By comparison the rest of the world has no consistent position or policy. Those who know war could see this coming when we announced we were going to "liberate" Iraq.
Obama is solely responsible for ISIS and it's murderous rampage.
Obama causes misery and despair wherever he ventures whether at home or abroad.
Spreading and enabling murder, strife and hate wherever his effeminate petty self inserts himself.
Obama causes misery and despair wherever he ventures whether at home or abroad.
Spreading and enabling murder, strife and hate wherever his effeminate petty self inserts himself.
Why ISIS is winning, and how its foes can reverse that success
(CNN)A combination of Iraqi forces has converged on Ramadi in an effort to reverse ISIS' stunning success in seizing the city.
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al Abadi, promised a counter-attack "within days" as Baghdad seeks to address the most humiliating episode in its war with ISIS since the fall of Mosul nearly a year ago.
ISIS -- in both Iraq and Syria -- has had a successful month. Its capture of Ramadi and Palmyra in Syria are due to its tactics and structure, and the weakness or exhaustion of opponents, as well as support or acquiescence among enough Sunnis in both countries. It may also have benefited, according to some analysts, from cynical power-plays in Baghdad.
Even so, taking Ramadi and holding it are two different things. Evidence from previous battles suggests that ISIS doesn't 'do' defense as well as offense, and it is still vastly outnumbered by Iraqi forces. But the longer ISIS fighters are entrenched anywhere the more difficult they are to expel, and the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) clearly aren't capable of the task alone.
In Syria, the seizure of Palmyra gives ISIS access to the main roads to Homs and Damascus, and nearby gas fields. It also confirms a shift by ISIS to focus on territory held by the Assad regime in west and central Syria, after a series of defeats at the hands of Kurdish forces supported by coalition airpower in the north.
'Shock and awe'
The term was coined in 2003 to describe the technological power of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But it can equally be applied to the way ISIS behaves on the battlefield, striking the enemy with massive explosive force.
Back in February, Kurdish commanders near Mosul told CNN how ISIS had sent more than a dozen fuel tankers converted into massive vehicle-borne suicide bombs against their positions. A similar tactic was used to break the resistance of Iraqi security forces (ISF) in Ramadi.
Michael Knights, an analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who has spent much time in Iraq, says it's "unsurprising that the ISF in Ramadi finally cracked when struck with a hammer blow -- namely, twenty-eight suicide car bombs in three days, including at least six massive fifteen-ton armored truck bombs in a single attack."
There were also rumors that thousands of ISIS fighters had come to Ramadi from Syria, likely spread by ISIS' adept use of social media to sow fear.
There is another psychological dimension to ISIS' threat: enemy soldiers know that they will be killed in cold blood if captured -- probably in gruesome fashion. At Tikrit last June, around Hit earlier this year, in Palmyra in Syria last week, enemy soldiers and other adversaries have been mercilessly dealt with. Summary executions -- en masse -- are part of its mode of warfare. After seizing a Syrian military base near Raqqa last July, it beheaded dozens of Syrian soldiers, posting videos of the barbarity.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, it has now begun a similar reign of terror around Palmyra, executing hundreds of captured soldiers and regime sympathizers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/28/middleeast/isis-how-to-stop-it/
(CNN)A combination of Iraqi forces has converged on Ramadi in an effort to reverse ISIS' stunning success in seizing the city.
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al Abadi, promised a counter-attack "within days" as Baghdad seeks to address the most humiliating episode in its war with ISIS since the fall of Mosul nearly a year ago.
ISIS -- in both Iraq and Syria -- has had a successful month. Its capture of Ramadi and Palmyra in Syria are due to its tactics and structure, and the weakness or exhaustion of opponents, as well as support or acquiescence among enough Sunnis in both countries. It may also have benefited, according to some analysts, from cynical power-plays in Baghdad.
Even so, taking Ramadi and holding it are two different things. Evidence from previous battles suggests that ISIS doesn't 'do' defense as well as offense, and it is still vastly outnumbered by Iraqi forces. But the longer ISIS fighters are entrenched anywhere the more difficult they are to expel, and the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) clearly aren't capable of the task alone.
In Syria, the seizure of Palmyra gives ISIS access to the main roads to Homs and Damascus, and nearby gas fields. It also confirms a shift by ISIS to focus on territory held by the Assad regime in west and central Syria, after a series of defeats at the hands of Kurdish forces supported by coalition airpower in the north.
'Shock and awe'
The term was coined in 2003 to describe the technological power of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But it can equally be applied to the way ISIS behaves on the battlefield, striking the enemy with massive explosive force.
Back in February, Kurdish commanders near Mosul told CNN how ISIS had sent more than a dozen fuel tankers converted into massive vehicle-borne suicide bombs against their positions. A similar tactic was used to break the resistance of Iraqi security forces (ISF) in Ramadi.
Michael Knights, an analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who has spent much time in Iraq, says it's "unsurprising that the ISF in Ramadi finally cracked when struck with a hammer blow -- namely, twenty-eight suicide car bombs in three days, including at least six massive fifteen-ton armored truck bombs in a single attack."
There were also rumors that thousands of ISIS fighters had come to Ramadi from Syria, likely spread by ISIS' adept use of social media to sow fear.
There is another psychological dimension to ISIS' threat: enemy soldiers know that they will be killed in cold blood if captured -- probably in gruesome fashion. At Tikrit last June, around Hit earlier this year, in Palmyra in Syria last week, enemy soldiers and other adversaries have been mercilessly dealt with. Summary executions -- en masse -- are part of its mode of warfare. After seizing a Syrian military base near Raqqa last July, it beheaded dozens of Syrian soldiers, posting videos of the barbarity.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, it has now begun a similar reign of terror around Palmyra, executing hundreds of captured soldiers and regime sympathizers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/28/middleeast/isis-how-to-stop-it/
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