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credit: Chris Britt
Wackydoodle sez: Aid and comfort, aid and comfort, awk! |
The UK's MPs maybe willing to have their air forces join the bombing campaign, but this stark statistic shows the depth of the problem confronting western military leaders: Three thousand Europeans have joined the jihadist crusade. The CIA estimates ISIS may have up to 31,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria where the organization has declared a caliphate in the parts of the two nations it controls. This large nunber of obstensible Europeans will give the terrorists the capability of launching terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the bombing campaign that has launched over 200 hundred strikes:
Generally accepted is the conclusion that
air power alone will not reduce ISIS. Proxy forces to replace a
nearly useless Iraqi army will be necessary to reclaim lost territory, and right now there is no coordinated plan among countries willing to become involved in the crisis. Meanwhile, the important border crossing of Kabane on the Turkey-Syria border in under attack by the jihadis.
