Mosul, Tikrit, etc.

[Kat Kid]

Read an article this weekend about how ISIS raises money.  The article said that ISIS is the wealthiest terror org ever and that they basically run like the mafia as far as their financial schemes/organization works.

The article said that they have 11 refineries under their control, are selling $110/barrel oil for $25-$60 per barrel on the black market, and are grossing upward of $3M/day.  They are involved in all kinds of other stuff too: drugs, sex trafficking, etc.  It also went on to say that they have been willing to purchase hostages from other gangs in the region.  Evidently, that is how they got a hold of the beheaded brit. 

Now, Iran just refused our offer for them to supply boots on ground.  So, we are basically up to walking on this whole thing, or booting up ourselves at this point, right?  I mean, everyone else has said "no".

Is there anyway we could mindfuck Putin into trying to prove something in Iraq?

Right.  Except for the fact that they are commanding/controlling land the size of Maryland.  Suddenly, $3M/day sounds pretty pud.

[CNS]

So, our boots, then?

[CNS]

Also, is it pud?  I mean, I doubt they are improving roads, bridges, or providing free/reduced lunch.  This isn't an org that is doing crap for the citizens that aren't isis fighters, right?

Also, I am pretty sure the three mill was just oil.

[michigancat]

There's gotta be a reason no one in the region is really doing anything about ISIS (other than Assad, I guess). Right?

[CNS]

Other than guns vs no guns, you mean?

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

 

There's gotta be a reason no one in the region is really doing anything about ISIS (other than Assad, I guess). Right?

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[michigancat]

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/09/15/obamas-new-war-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Dish%29

[renocat]

We should rethink dethroning Assad in Syria.  Every time we help get rid of these dictators we get chaos and deminted nuts trying to kill us and to take over the world.  Choosing the lesser of two evils like was done in the cold war.

[Dugout DickStone]

We should rethink dethroning Assad in Syria.  Every time we help get rid of these dictators we get chaos and deminted nuts trying to kill us and to take over the world.  Choosing the lesser of two evils like was done in the cold war.

Yeah bush really screwed up

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Obama has fostered the most egregious series of eff ups in the ME imaginable. The entire place is on fire.

[puniraptor]

Obama has fostered the most egregious series of eff ups in the ME imaginable. The entire place is on fire.

What if that was the goal? Pretty dece job then?

[CNS]

ISIS.  We shoukd bomb their oil refineries.  Supposedly they have eleven, or so, od them.  Bomb the crap out of them. Cut off a bunch of their money.  War won.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Obama has fostered the most egregious series of eff ups in the ME imaginable. The entire place is on fire.

What if that was the goal? Pretty dece job then?

Then he should be tortured and then executed

[Dugout DickStone]

don't a lot of folks in the ME think our whole goal is to destabilize to prevent consolidation of power, cooperation etc.?  Now that we are melting all of Canada's sand into oil we can just BID over there.

[CNS]

French guy just beheaded, apparently.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/24/world/africa/algeria-france-hostage-beheading/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Spracne]

don't a lot of folks in the ME think our whole goal is to destabilize to prevent consolidation of power, cooperation etc.?  Now that we are melting all of Canada's sand into oil we can just BID over there.

Maine is v close to Canada, though.  Seems risky.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

don't a lot of folks in the ME think our whole goal is to destabilize to prevent consolidation of power, cooperation etc.?  Now that we are melting all of Canada's sand into oil we can just BID over there.

I don't know anyone who thinks that, which is good, because it's one of the dumbest things I've read.

[renocat]

SoS John Kerry said a few days ago fighting climate change is comparable to fighting ISIS in urgency.  This must of scared the hell out of them.  They called Kerry the Uncircumsized Old Geezer.   What has he been doing behind the scenes for them to know such things.  I would feel better if they called him Son of Satan or Killer Kerry instead of UOG.