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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.
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
