ISIS has travel plans
The US reports that ISIS has lost 25% of the territory it once held. Although I hope this is true, I’m not at all sure I believe them, and they sound a bit shaky about it themselves:
…a U.S. assessment…determined that Kurdish fighters are responsible for the majority of the territory retaken from ISIS in northern Iraq.
“We assess ISIL’s front lines have been pushed back in northern and central Iraq,” Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said at a Pentagon briefing today, referring to the militant group also known as ISIS. “ISIL no longer has complete freedom of movement in roughly 25 percent of populated areas of Iraqi territory where they once operated freely.”…
Warren said the term “freedom of movement” equates to losing territory “if they don’t have freedom of movement they don’t control it.”…
“Their caliphate is in the process of shrinking,” Warren told reporters, noting that areas represented in the assessment were of populated areas that had been taken from ISIS control.
But he cautioned that the assessment was “not an exact science,” pointing to what he described as the “fluid battleground” inside Iraq.
Note the emphasis on Kurdish fighters. As for Iranians, Warren denies that we’re working with them although there’s an “alignment of some interest between ourselves and Iran” in fighting ISIS. Note, also, how Warren uses the PC, administration-approved term “ISIL,” which is not what the group generally calls itself and ignores its Syrian connection.
ISIS wants you to know that it doesn’t consider itself on the wane at all. Whether this is mere bravado or not I have no idea, but there’s no question in my mind that this is what they would like to do and that they are making plans to do it. The only real question is whether they are capable of carrying out those plans, even if only through terrorist acts. There is little doubt that they are right about the craven nature of the West (what they call “the Crusaders”). I’m not sure they’re right about Israel (what they call “the Jews”):
“The Jews and the Crusaders are scared and weak,” said al-Adnani.
The weak and the cowardly cannot achieve victory,” he stressed, emphasizing they were cowards for not declaring their war is against Islam and the Sunnis. He also belittled the West’s effort to kill senior ISIS commanders and fighters, saying death does not concern them and only fuels the fires of jihad…
On the other hand, we ”“ with Allah’s help ”“ want Paris, before Rome and Islamic Iberia and after we blow up the White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower before Paris, and Rome,” he warned.
Adding to the list of achievements, al-Adnani threatened that ISIS had massive goals. “We want Kabul, Karachi, Riyadh, Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Cairo, Sana’a, Doha, Abu Dhabi, and Amman. The Muslims will return to power, to be the vanguard and lead in every place.”
This reminds me, strangely enough, of a Leonard Cohen song. A Leonard Cohen song?, you ask. Yes, entitled “First We Take Manhattan” and written in the late 1980s. Artists sometimes have a sense of where things are going before they go there. Whether ISIS actually has a chance of accomplishing its aims in the West, it has already wreaked terrible havoc and sown widespread fear in the Middle East.
Cohen understood the general ISIS impulse way back when (not the specific Islamic one, although there are hints of that, too), before most of its fighters were even born:
I think it’s a remarkable video, especially if you consider it was made in 1988. Here are the words. A few stand out:
I’m coming now, I’m coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
I’m guided by a signal in the heavens
I’m guided by this birthmark on my skin
I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin…Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you’re worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don’t have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin…
“Warren uses the PC, administration-approved term “ISIL,” which is not what the group generally calls itself and ignores its Syrian connection.”
Quite the contrary: ISIL specifically refers to the LEVANT, i.e. Syria all the way to the coast… PLUS Lebanon… PLUS Israel.
Yep, al Baghdadi covets them all.
ISIL was adopted by Barry only AFTER the MSM had centered itself on using ISIS as the term of art for al Baghdadi’s caliphate. Go back and review the Pentagon press briefings during the ‘transition’ — when both the Pentagon and the MSM were hopping back and forth using either or both sobriquets.
‘Tis but an indication of how vain Barry is. He wants to control the propaganda right on down to the wordage.
This is what a Goebbels dictatorship would’ve sounded like: all warcraft by word smith.
{ Goebbels is the fellow who ginned up IRON CURTAIN — not Winnie. He placed it in his diaries — which Churchill was given the translation long before their release to the general public. Hence, most accounts — even now — place the term in Missouri. }
blert:
Somewhere I had read it was because the term “Syria” (the “S” in “ISIS”) was absent, and he didn’t want to call specific attention to his Syrian fiasco.
but I see that it could indeed be more.
Extra points for the Cohen connection.
I’m extremely doubtful that the Kurds have taken back territory from ISIS. The Kurds haven’t the firepower to push back ISIS, as they’re limited to small arms. There have been news reports that Obama has refused to upgrade the Kurds weaponry.
If ISIS has lost ground, it’s because of Iran’s involvement. And it’s entirely in keeping with this administration’s duplicity that they would credit the Kurds, in order to deflect attention away from the gains that Iran is making. Obama and the Left do not want American’s remembering Netanyahu’s pointing out that, thanks to this administration, Iran now effectively controls four capitals in the M.E.
Reportedly, the Israeli left now leads in the polls, if that turns out to be accurate and leftist traitors are elected in Netanyahu’s place, it is a declaration that the majority of Israel’s have decided to commit suicide. You can’t get more weak than that.
As for ISIS versus ISIL, calling them ISIL is an implicit acknowledgement of their claim to the Levant and, an implicit declaration that Israel’s existence is illegitimate.
For a couple of years after 9/11 I was hoping that the Muslim Ummah could become a force for moderation in Islam. Some Muslim experts talked about the Ummah tending to side with the “Strong Horse.” In fact, that was one of Osama bin Laden’s talking points. He planned for al Qaeda to become the Strong Horse. With our abrupt withdrawal from Somalia after the Mogadishu event, he believed, with good reason, that the U.S. did not have the stomach for gut wrenching, prolonged combat. ISIS is merely following bin Laden’s lead. They intend to become the Strong Horse. The young men (and some women) of the Ummah are flocking to them, which pretty much confirms the idea that the Ummah tends to back the Strong Horse.
Obama and the progs have a quaint, naive idea that being weak and even-handed with Islam will win them over to moderation and tolerance. Much as they believe kindness and tolerance of anti-social behavior will transform black communities.
My go to strategy has always been – Peace through superior fire power and the will to use it. We’ve got the firepower. What’s lacking is the will.
As for ISIS versus ISIL, calling them ISIL is an implicit acknowledgement of their claim to the Levant and, an implicit declaration that Israel’s existence is illegitimate.
You sound like someone engaging in ongoing high level strategy and diplomacy.
The reality is quite different, is it not.
What you wish to call it is very different from the things you attempted to ignore in the past and how powerless you are to do anything about it, relatively speaking.
What’s lacking is the will.
The Leftist alliance and their Islamic Jihad auxiliaries have plenty of willpower to use their firepower on you and others. But that’s not what people were thinking of, was it. They were thinking of enemies outside, while ignoring the enemies inside, as usual.
After you’ve been to Manhattan, why would you WANT to go to Hartford…?
😀
Puts me in mind of when LC was wrong… not everybody knows.
BTW, with regards to ISIS/ISIL/Al Queda
You might consider this “endless” stream to be a method of identifying and killing the more fanatical and violent adherents of Islam, by getting them to stupidly get together in numbers too small to be a true force for change.
I have no evidence to support that, but it is ONE side effect of the whole shebang.
And it’s not the first time it has happened in history, by any means.
So I would suggest that, even though Teh One is an utter tool here, it’s not beyond the intellect of some of the Rich Bastards to figure this out, just as I have, and have the power and connections to do something to foment it.
}}} And it’s not the first time it has happened in history, by any means.
BTW, the best example of this is the cowardice of the French.
I maintain that that cowardice is a direct result of the Napoleonic Wars, which killed a really huge percent of the militant part of the French gene pool, rendering them into the mewling ineffectives they are today.
Only the ones who held back, who found excuses not to go to Waterloo, to Moscow, survived and put their genes into the Frogs that followed.
George Pal:
I have always seen the lyrics of that LC song “Everybody Knows” as ironic, or at least partly ironic. In other words, I think he’s saying something like this: everybody spouts the usual line on these things, but is it all really true, or is most of it (or at least some of it) just people following the party or PC line?
If you look at the actual lyrics—all of the lyrics, that is—I think my interpretation is correct. Leonard Cohen has never been one to talk about politics much if at all. He is purposely enigmatic, and I think the song has a double meaning. It sounds straightforward to those who think they “know” what “everybody knows.” But it’s not straightforward at all, IMHO.
Some of the lyrics that seem clearly ironic, or mocking, for example:
J.J. Says:
France’s Prophet
Sucks to be Paris and Manhattan.
Neo-neocon,
I’ll go along with partly ironic as per the lyrics you quote, on the other hand, the lyrics previous to where you start seem expositional:
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes, everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
…
George Pal:
But that’s my point. How do you know those earlier lyrics are meant to be taken straight?
LC is not a political singer, and he is not a simple thinker either. He is a master of innuendo, and I’ve studied some of his interviews as well. From what I gather, he does not share those sentiments in the song in a straightforward way. It is my opinion that they are said at least somewhat ironically, as in “you all think it’s just this simple, don’t you?” and that the later lyrics—the ones that are clearly ironic—are a cue to his real attitude. I think his real attitude is, “things are seldom what they seem. What we think we know, we don’t really know.” That fits in with his personality and philosophy as I see it.
Which reminds me of another song:
If words have meaning, then their proper usage has importance. In this case, the implicit assumption that Israel has a right to exist. Call them ISIL and you’ve already started to abandon that position because you’ve yielded to their premise.
“What you wish to call it is very different from the things you attempted to ignore in the past and how powerless you are to do anything about it, relatively speaking.” Ymarsakar
Exactly what things did I ignore in the past? Hmm? Specifics please.
As for my being powerless to do much about it, other than write, speak and vote for my representatives, what power does the average citizen have, other than that? We can not all be the fulcrum upon which the lever derives its leverage.
What power do you have to do anything about it? That is, other than the same?
Neo-neocon,
I yield to your knowledge of the singer, and your point. Though, for me, the lyrics had always struck me as augury of personal dread, i.e., a paranoia of sorts, i.e., things are so bad, so balled up, so dark… and it’s all about to fall on me – ’cause everybody knows, that’s how it goes.
Then again when Cohen sees “The Future” he sees…. at the end….
“There’ll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There’ll be phantoms
There’ll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You’ll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin’ to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin’
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby:
it is murder “
To most ironic and folish contributing to the enamy of humanity propaganda. Saying ISIS has travel plans is just some uniformed unreal of all truths and realtirs,
With huge investment in intelligence and othe tools like ANS screeing with militry on the ground in the land of the enamy all that telling here ISIS has travel plans?
What nonnces
Japan,
Unfortunately, your lack of fluency in English makes it hard to understand what you have said. But anyone who cavalierly dismisses ISIS’ capabilities is a fool. 19 men with just box cutters killed 3000+ Americans and, if they had been on a later flight, the death toll would have been at least 10 times that.
Geoffrey Britain
Its not sham been Eng. not my native language.
But looks you the point. Have said that you either from another plant or you in deep sleep with ISIS or ISL creation from been a baby to adulthood… So from Syria for regime change across Turku now have 3rd Iraq land.
Did you follow US force in the region how many air strike a day?
Go and do your homework Mr cavalierly …..
Japan, I repeat, increase your fluency in English if you wish to have a discussion, otherwise you will find yourself ignored.
Nothing I said implied shame that English is not your first language. That is your insecurity speaking. I simply advised you to increase your fluency so as to be better understood.
I’ve been aware of ISIS as soon as they started making the news in English and took them seriously from the start and have followed their progress.
The American air strikes are a bad joke and for appearances sake only. I’m up to date on my homework. Nothing I’ve said regarding ISIS could be taken as dismissive. As for yourself, “if the shoe fits, wear it”.
Geoffrey Britain thank you for your words
Going from reports from the British Independent, I gather that the Kurds are supported by sorties from the USAAF which limit the mobility of ISIS, so that it is not so much that ground has been retaken as that ISIS no longer has the ability to move troops which is giving the Kurdish Peshmerga the strength to defend their territory.
Meanwhile the assault on Tikrit is being undertaken by Shi’ite Militias advised, if not actually led by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, supported by some local Sunni militias siding with the Shi’ites due to obscure grudges. I presume the US is staying out of this because it is a sectarian campaign which will culminate in some gruesome civilian casualties should it be successful.
Sorry the West, Kurds’ Fight is Not Your Fight
kurdistantribune.com/2015/sorry-west-kurds-fight-not-your-fight
Caedmon Says:
March 15th, 2015 at 5:16 am
Going from reports from the British Independent, ….
If you’re willing to believe your lying eyes…
The ENTIRE Tikrit ‘project’ is Iranian commanded.
For photographic evidences — visit the Long War Journal.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/
Al Quds has totally taken over — be of no doubt about that.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/03/in-pictures-shiite-militias-operating-near-tikrit.php
Check out these snaps. ^^^^^^^^^^
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