One of the most stupid things

[Busybody]

No, I'm not, because I'm NOT suggesting we DO NOT kill ISIS members or Al Qaeda or Taliban or any other violent Jihadist.

JBJ made an idiotic, irrelevant comparison of the post-Civil War South, and two post-WWII Axis Powers to current military efforts in the War on Terror. My comment was directed solely to that comparison.

his point was correct


we treated the ENEMEY as the ENEMY and NO HOLDS barred

now we cant and wont even say the name pf the enemy and treat them as if they had legit issues with us and BLAME others as equal threats

STRONG HORSE

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yeah, well, we don't have to anyway. Again, all their neighbors hate them. The Kurds hate them. The Turks hate them. The Iraqi Shi'ites hate them. Most Iraqi Sunnis hate them. Assad hates them. All other Syrian rebel factions hate them. The Egyptians hate them. The Israelis hate them. The Saudis hate them. Iran hates them. Hezbollah hates them. The Yezidis hate them. The King of Jordan really hates them. After that recent business in Libya, all the region's Christians must hate them to the degree Christian love allows. Even al-Qaeda hates them. Practically everybody who does not hate them has already rushed off to join them (in Syria, and in Egypt and elsewhere) -- but not nearly enough have. They can't hang. Soon as even one or two of those neighbors get their acts together, ISIS will be gone like the dust a Muslim washes off his hands before prayers. And those neighbors, being rather closely emotionally invested in the whole matter and bearing personal grudges, will perhaps not be quite so nicely scrupulous about the laws of war and accepting surrenders as American regular troops would be. Which should satisfy you, Box.

And it looks like that's starting now.

Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - Some 30,000 Iraqi troops and militia backed by aircraft pounded jihadists in and around Tikrit on Monday in the biggest offensive yet to retake one of the Islamic State group's main strongholds.

Government forces have battled their way north for months, notching up key victories against IS, but Tikrit has been their toughest target yet with the jihadists having resisted them several times.

Commanders voiced hope the operation would be a step towards the recapture of Mosul, the jihadists' main hub in Iraq.

"The army, federal police, Popular Mobilisation (volunteer) units, and the sons of Salaheddin's tribes are performing the duties of liberation in the largest operation against Daesh since June," said a senior army officer on the ground, using an Arabic acronym for IS.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The battle for Tikrit is still raging.

Iranian commanders are helping to co-ordinate the operation, which is not backed by US-led coalition air strikes.

Iraqi Air Force helicopters and warplanes have conducted strikes since the offensive was launched on Sunday, but it is unclear whether Iranian aircraft have also been involved.