Stop ISIS. Act decisively

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Stop ISIS. Act decisively

By Heine Strømdahl, 05-05-15

The current plan to defeat ISIS seems woefully bad. It is a plan/strategy that depends much on the "Iraqi Army". US Marines liberated Falleluja in 2004 and could do the same in Mosul in a week or two. But the current White House administration doesn't want to fight open battles and liberate - say Mosul - with its own US troops, instead President Obama is sitting in his comfortable stuffed chair in the White House and waiting and hoping (and perhaps even praying) that someday the Iraqi Army finally will rise to its feet and start liberating Iraq from the claws of ISIS.

In the meantime this miserable loser's strategy to defeat ISIS - ”Let's wait and hope and pray that one day somehow ”The Iraqi Army” will move into action ” - carries a high human cost and allows ISIS to

1: Carefully select and train hundreds or thousands of children to be suicide-bombers.

2: Carefully select and train many women to be the same – remember ISIS has female brigades too.

3: Kill lots of people in the areas subjected to their evil domination. And by the way: Decapitation and torture still seems to be very popular among ISIS henchmen. And there is no reason to believe that ISIS suddenly will bring a halt to these devilish practices.

4: Oppres, murder and manipulate/brainwash people in the areas they control. Not to mention all the other kind of miseries that follows with an occupation by such an entity.

The most recent example is the reported yet still unverified killing of 300 Yazidisⁱ

At the same time this passive stance allows for the stockpiles of ”The Iraqi Army” to be slowly filled. But these weapons will never be used against ISIS. (They may however one day end up being used against the kurds – in a scenario similar to that which took place in august 2014: ISIS ”stood at the gates of Erbil” with advanced US weaponry in its hands. Only after a phone call between US Vice President Joe Biden and Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani on the night of august 6 did President Obama finally authorize airstrickes. ⁱⁱ )

Here is the problem – from my perspective :

”The Iraqi Army” isn't an army. It is a sham, a circus, a tragic and miserable spectacle. They will not fight against ISIS. They WILL not fight against ISIS. They shy away//run away from fighting if they can see any possibity to do so – and the few battles they actually have fought against ISIS have been with mixed results – or even worse perhaps: they have performed poorly on the battlefield.

Questions to be answered honestly:

Do they have any real leadership in ”The Iraqi Army”? A leadership the soldiers trust?

Do they have any fighting spirit at all?

When will ”The Iraqi Army” finally be ready for real battle? In 2035? In 2045? In 6800?

Nobody seems to know.

And we haven't even begun to talk about Syria.

But one thing we do know:

Nobody in the Obama administration is talking candidly and honestly about it - they are still dreaming and hoping and waiting and praying for a resurrection of the dead Iraqi Army.

In the meantime ISIS continues it's reign of terror in the areas under their control, jihadists and extremists from all over the world are emboldened by the relative succes of ISIS: they flock to Syria, they lay plans for terrorattacks in Western cities, they seek to carve out new territory in countries in Africa, they kill over 150.000 christians a year according to OSCEⁱⁱⁱ – and we continue to have millions of people living as refugees or IDPs in Iraq and Syria and the surrounding countries, while hundreds or thousands of other refugees continue to seek towards the borders of Europe on a daily basis.

The only bright spot on this map are the kurds in Rojava in North Syria: Their forces are equipped with very simple means and assisted only with the limited effects of airstrickes. Yet the men and women of the YPG/YPJ are still fighting ferociously and they are actually defeating ISIS and pushing them further away from their region. They need our help.

”In the last few months we have watched in horror as ISIS sympathizers have attacked innocent people, businesses and governments in at least the United States, Canada, France, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.  Even as we’ve watched wanna-be jihadists travel to and from America and Europe on western passports to fight in the ISIS jihad themselves.

Their propaganda machine is causing mega-corporations like Google and Twitter to struggle to keep up with the amount of jihadist propaganda showing up online every single day, and, shockingly, one study recently noted that one-in-five Arabic language tweets in the United States and the United Kingdom referencing ISIS were in “support” of the organization.

The fact is, we will deal with this crisis there or we will deal with it here.

Not dealing with it seriously is simply not an option.

We expected Syria would fix itself as well.

And what did it get us?

ISIS.” ⁱ

Stop ISIS. Act decisively ⁱⁱ

ihttp://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/16/has-christian-holocaust-begun-when-will-west-wake-up-to-isis-threat/ , by Johnnie Moore, 1603-2015.

iiVasiliki Scurfield: See https://www.change.org/p/number-10-downing-street-barack-obama-jean-claude-juncker-stop-isis-act-decisively?recruiter=288981129&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_term=des-lg-share_petition-custom_msg&fb_ref=Default

ihttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32565809

ii Senior Kurdistan Official: IS Was at Erbil’s Gates; Turkey Did Not Help. http://rudaw.net/english/interview/16092014

iii whereas according to OSCE data the number of Christians killed every year is over 150 000; http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B8-2015-0369&language=EN https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/07/statement-president