A simple Idea- ISIS catspaw

Kept the thought going

Look at Iraq-
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Saddam for all his faults and crimes
stood in the way
First gulf war gave evidence to american behavior

used to remove his power structure


Lybia-
Gaddafhi

Strong man who stood in the way


Afghanistan-
Taliban catspaw (in this mode)
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Then look to the issues listed here
muslims in france's behavior
UK sex scandal


their would be a simple way to test this
send in unknown men and women

Start beheading Islamic members of ISIS

I'd say there is long term planning but not on the side we'd like or are used to.

Benghazi is a good example. What was that? An attack on a Dipo compound? An attempt to capture a US Ambassador alive? A try at stealing hardware being stored there? Whatever the target at Benghazi? That wasn't the only major lesson of that day and week.

It was regional unrest alright..and they gloss right over that like coordinated and controlled unrest over several nations and an entire region is a normal occurrence. It started on command ...flared about half way through..on command..and it ended on command. Benghazi and the regional unrest right afterward was a nice operational test, early on. Could the elements in different places coordinate on ANY level and be successful?

Their first long term test for what is coming today...was successful. So successful, the morons running this nation at the moment didn't even consider the purpose, outside the obliteration of whatever pissed them off SO badly about the specific mission in Libya.

I swear we assume the other side are simple minded and ignorant, when they use very different tactics, but use tactics proven over a millennia of time for success. It sure beat us in two nations..and counting.

ISIS dates back to about 2011, but the vacuum that has allowed them to flourish is the result of the Iraq War and removal of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

In a sense, the US still supports ISIS, in that they are the only credible threat to the Assad regime in Syria, but otherwise I don't really see any upside to the West from ISIS. On the other hand, apart from their publicized brutality and threats to our allies in the region, we don't have much reason to get rid of them, because they aren't really a threat to the West, either, and attacking them would be playing into their hand, particularly if a battle is lost at Dabiq. If they didn't take hostages and publicly and brutally kill them, we'd probably have nothing to do with them, but theologically, they have to do that stuff because it's what their interpretation of Islam commands them to do, and it brings their prophesied confrontation with "Rome" all the more closer.