The good
news is the some of the Arab states are on ISIS getting a wake-up call
Monetary aid
to ISIS from Qatar and Saudi Arabia is beginning to fall
The bad news
is that ISIS controls 11 oil fields in Syria and Iraq
At least 3
million a day is a lot of funds to further their barbaric attacks
What strategy
we have is with the no boots on the ground vowed totally shackled
But in
addition to the airstrikes the international community needs to deliver a
financial tackle
Since we do
not want to destroy the fields that Iraq will ultimately need
A campaign
to interdict the ISIS tankers must proceed
If the
tankers from the fields we cannot detect
If we cannot
turn the tankers into flaming wrecks
Time for the
no boots on the ground mantra to reject
Assemble a
force with armor strong enough to from the fields ISIS eject
General
Dempsey appeared before a Senate committee with words he did not mince
Hearing them
I am sure Obama went into full on wince
If the
military advisers, air strikes and coalition forces to destroy ISIS fail
ISIS not
destroyed, much less even remotely curtailed
The General
indicated he would strongly urge boots on the ground
To in our
national interest bring these barbarians down
4 airstrikes
a day compared to 3,000 a day in the Gulf War will not an army defeat
Nor from Mosul,
the oil fields or huge chunks of land in Iraq ISIS unseat
Increasing
the airstrikes will be a public relations Gaza déjà vu
ISIS placing
civilians in harm’s way as the scenes of dead children from bombs grew
Call it
mission creep or better yet the consequences of Obama having all troops withdraw
If he does
not have the stomach for this, as a leader in the world we may see our last
hurrah
© September
16, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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