Some suggest that US President Donald Trump’s detailed account of the operation, likening Baghdadi to a dog who died ‘whimpering and crying’, may in fact embolden his followers to launch brutal revenge attacks.
@TomSea You can't play "whack a mole" unless you can get the moles to pop their heads up.
With the speculation and euphoria now over, it is helpful to recall the numerous warnings of military and intelligence chiefs in the Middle East regarding the futility of a ‘guns blazing’ approach in battling radicalised armed groups. Hard-power operations, the US stock in trade since 2001, may be spectacular and symbolic but are ephemeral and usually counterproductive particularly as the ideology of these groups calls for armed struggle and sacrifice. The ‘hard power’ approach does not defeat the ideology; rather, hard-power operations validate the ideology. Iraqi Kurdish intelligence chief Lahur Talabani lamented in November 2016 that ‘there is no effective effort in place to fight the ideology.’
We iz da wurld.....
We iz da peep-pulls...
Group hug,group hug! Let's just hug the hatred and the violence out of them! Yeah,that's the ticket!
‘We can lose Daesh, in terms of the structure, shape and form they are in right now. But as we saw with Jund al-Islam, which morphed into Ansar al-Islam, as with the case of al-Qaida, we can try and fight these guys militarily, but they always come back stronger in another form,’ he said.
Ok,so let's treat them like the human disease they really are,and kill them all off anywhere and everywhere they are found,and start a secondary program to quietly let the ruling ragheads understand that they,their families,and their bank accounts are NOT going to be exempted unless they get on board with our program.
What the idiots in the "Ah think tanks" keep overlooking is this IS a "top down movement". The average ISIS/whatever raghead foot soldier has the IQ of a cockroach and slightly less education. They are TOOLS,not thinkers. The way to stop this,as well as every other war when you stop and think about it,is NOT to kill foot soldiers,but to shut down the financing and remove the leadership. Once they stop being fed and watered,the typical raghead will drop his empty AK,and start walking home to his visit with his favorite sheep.
This will break the Bush Crime Family hearts,as well as the hearts of other prominent US Politicians,but the Saud Royal Family is at the heart of this,and examples need to be made to impress the younger generations and make them understand it is no longer business as usual. Want to get their attention? Start freezing and seizing bank accounts and assets in the west. Make them goobers understand there will be NO more partying and good times in the west away from the sight of the Mullahs and the devout,and that unless and until they decide to play along,the rest of their lives will be spent in Arabia because they will be detained and their airplanes and anything else they have with them will be seized and they will be returned flying coach with a discount airline. Or a slow boat that leaks. Or maybe not at all,depending on who they are. They might just cease to exist with no explanations,but maybe a few rumors about being ground up as dog food or fed to hogs.
