Video purports to show ISIS militants beheading 21 Christian hostages

Elcarsh, they are a disciplined military force, I cannot say the same of some of the others in the region.

Do I believe that they'll conquer..... Not a present but let them grow and continue to consolidate their gains, militarily, economically and spiritually. If they continue to recruit other Islamist groups around the world under their banner with all fighting a "global Jihad", then yes, hell yes.

The idea that ISIS is but 20,000 strong is false, I think Al Jazzera is closer to the mark at 200,000 in the Syria / Iraq region. If you agree Boko Haram and Tripolitania Province of the Islamic State in Libya are ISIS allies and potential member states, then I think you could double the size estimate.

Now, the above are just the groups that are set up and visual, within each country with substantial Muslim populations there are agents, adherents or wanna be converts to IS. These, in countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc. will create instability and effect the outcome of any conflict, insurgency or invasion.

I think IS is going after Jordan next, it's the path to Israel and the Lavant. Watch for it.

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Labour

 

The constant beheadings and releasing the videos of these beheadings is simply done for one purpose and one purpose only, psychological warfare. Their version of psy warfare is to instill fear in the general populace. This takes up resources and spirit to fight them.

To combat their psy warfare, we have two options:
1. We target the leader's families and kill them, and I mean all of them. Or.
2. We target the fighters in the safe zones and fire bomb them as much as possible.

The only problem with either strategy is whether or not our allies would accept such a strategy. If they do, espically Egypt, Jordan, Iraw, and Iran, then all of our allies need to share intelligence and operational paramenters.

 

I agree

 

who ever said the problem was gonna go away, they need to be destroyed, they are killing\torturing innocent people for no valid reason, they need to be eleminated

This is what Obama has to say about ISIS


""Now let’s make two things clear: ISIL is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda’s affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria’s civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

In a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape, and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. In acts of barbarism, they took the lives of two American journalists — Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff.""

http://mashable.com/2014/09/10/obama-address-isis-isil-islamic-state/

 

violent Religious fanatics are like a cancer and must be destroyed

 

Although I was adamantly against our whole Iraq adventure, even as it took place beginning in earnest in autumn of 2002, I must point out that it was actually the clot of Saudi *******s who started it, with their acts of crashing jetliners into buildings in the United States. Oddly enough, Saddam Hussein had nothing whatever to do with that, and the Sunni murderers of 9/11 fame would very likely have been hanged, or worse, if they had fallen in Saddam's hands. He was NO friend of terrorists of any stripe....

Poor stupid "W" Bush was badly advised and counciled by nearly every intelligence agency in the world that Saddam was about to come forth with nuclear weapons -- you remember all the furor about "yellow cake", etc. He went with the advice, and here we are, still up to our ass cheeks in Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East. But to simply blame the whole thing on "a Republican" is wrong. In one manifestation or another, it's been going on since the end of World War II. And, when these savage, murderous idiots aren't killing us "infidels", they fall back to their default pastime of killing each other!