Iraq: Out of the desert into Mosul (closed)

[carl]

Here is something I can agree with:
http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.u...aq_crisis_note

As the article notes, they can only maintain their territorial gains if they can build an army beyond what they have now (estimated at 10,000). Recruiting through propaganda will be key. We should offer them no moral victory by being the target of western aggression.

Aggressive, expansionist and murderous organizations like ISIS don't require actions by us for either good or ill to score propaganda points. If there is something small there, they'll make it bigger. If there is nothing there they will make it up or they will slaughter innocents as a provocation. This particular group of takfiri killers doesn't want us to leave them alone. They want us-convert, dhimmi or die.

That's what I figure anyway.