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2015-11-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Raqqa under French strikes: Life in the ISIS de facto capital

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Posted by badanov 2015-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 "locals have been split between approbation and resentment over the anti-ISIS strikes by French fighter jets."

The problem is that we can only win if the local civilians, fake and real, start to fear the West more than they fear ISIS. Only then will the West be able to impose its will on the enemy.

Any Western action in Syria that is constrained by the same self-defeating ROE that governed the interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq will end in a similar humiliating political defeat.

So far all of this looks like a farcical reprise of the 9/11 war which the West lost.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-11-18 01:21|| 2015-11-18 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 hear, hear

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-18 02:05|| 2015-11-18 02:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I still think they should have nuked the place as a demonstration of intent. It's like the joke about training a donkey - first you have to get it's attention.

Posted by SteveS 2015-11-18 02:09|| 2015-11-18 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Intense airstrikes by the French warplanes????

These guys are just dreaming

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blogs/michael-j-totten

Posted by BernardZ 2015-11-18 08:40|| 2015-11-18 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Agree BZ, the word 'intense' wasn't used properly in that sentence. But the French dropped more bombs this week than did the USAF.

Posted by Steve White 2015-11-18 09:13|| 2015-11-18 09:13|| Front Page Top

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