http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isis-battle-plan
It looks like hard-fought gains will have to be hard-fought for once again. It is currently unclear who will do it, since many in the Iraqi Army and police have abandoned their posts. I also don't know when it will happen, but eventually someone will have to fight. A lot of someones.
And a lot of them will die doing so. They'll either die or die trying, as they try to retake Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and Fallujah, Ramadi, and Tikrit. All of these cities have fallen to the islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. Samarra, home to the important shine to Shia Muslims, the al-Askari mosque, is also now under attack by the ISIS Sunni jihadis. That is also where Iraq's surviving security forces in the area have retreated. Time will tell.
As a result of the rapidly-evolving situation, someone else may have to draw new lines on a map - for example, the National Geographic Atlas team may have to make a few edits to line-work in the Middle East region. That is, if all those other someones died and were ultimately unsuccessful in trying to defeat ISIS, who has made huge territorial gains in northern and western Iraq as well as Syria.
Without the ability to exert influence on the regional outcome, all Americans can do is hope that Baghdad will not fall to ISIS. Let's hope that in six months time Baghdad will still be on the "better" side of a new map line. Let's assume that Baghdad will survive, and pivot to something specific in order to illuminate possible future realities:
Such 'progress' was made possible 2 years ago by the Commander-in-Chief of American Progressives. That's Progressives for you - fucking over common people from which they publicly seek support and pretend to champion, yet privately loath, and the audacity to blame the other side of the political aisle for their own gross incompetence. Yep, they've been practicing pompous, out-of-touch elitism since 1912.
However, if their 'stupidity' remains unchanged despite the harsh realities of the results, which we will continue to see unfold in the months and years ahead, there must come a point at which it will become hard to argue that their 'stupidity' wasn't on purpose. See image of the stained glass window at the London School of Economics (birthplace of Fabian Socialism).
Heating up world up, so they can reshape it, by acting as wolves in sheep's clothes. If this is true, and their organization hasn't abandoned their founding principles, are they the ones at work in the Middle East at present? If so, are they working to benefit our interests.....or their own? Who stands to lose the most? One thing is certain - in the Middle East, women stand to lose the most. Men can retain their freedom so long as they nod and sway in approval of the ruling power.
And for us, western serfs, what will be our fate against forces which seek to heat things up? I argue the same thing as people in the Middle East. Political leaders seek to divide us more and more each day. We'll be fine if we nod and sway in approval of those in power.
But if we don't agree with their rhetoric, if we persist in our demand to be treated as citizens, refusing to live in serfdom, I think there will come a day when their costume comes off...and the Western ruling power elites begin to show themselves as the wolves they truly are.
It looks like hard-fought gains will have to be hard-fought for once again. It is currently unclear who will do it, since many in the Iraqi Army and police have abandoned their posts. I also don't know when it will happen, but eventually someone will have to fight. A lot of someones.
And a lot of them will die doing so. They'll either die or die trying, as they try to retake Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and Fallujah, Ramadi, and Tikrit. All of these cities have fallen to the islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. Samarra, home to the important shine to Shia Muslims, the al-Askari mosque, is also now under attack by the ISIS Sunni jihadis. That is also where Iraq's surviving security forces in the area have retreated. Time will tell.
As a result of the rapidly-evolving situation, someone else may have to draw new lines on a map - for example, the National Geographic Atlas team may have to make a few edits to line-work in the Middle East region. That is, if all those other someones died and were ultimately unsuccessful in trying to defeat ISIS, who has made huge territorial gains in northern and western Iraq as well as Syria.
Without the ability to exert influence on the regional outcome, all Americans can do is hope that Baghdad will not fall to ISIS. Let's hope that in six months time Baghdad will still be on the "better" side of a new map line. Let's assume that Baghdad will survive, and pivot to something specific in order to illuminate possible future realities:
Women, living in Baghdad, on the "good" side of a new boundary line, despite the territorial onslaught into their country by Islamic Jihadists, will hopefully find the courage to continue reaching for a western notion of equality in society. Women on the other side of the line, however, will not have the luxury to think about equality; they'll be thinking about their lives. They'll simply be hoping for much more basic things. For example, their main issue, beyond staying alive, might be that the new ISIS government secure a 5% conviction rate for men who pour acid on women for minuscule offenses of religious non-compliance. You see, they may be forced to accept that acid pouring on women for major offenses is legal, but might hold out hope for limiting such acts as punishment for lessor crimes against Islam. To them, such a compromise would be a new definition of 'progress' - similar to parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Such 'progress' was made possible 2 years ago by the Commander-in-Chief of American Progressives. That's Progressives for you - fucking over common people from which they publicly seek support and pretend to champion, yet privately loath, and the audacity to blame the other side of the political aisle for their own gross incompetence. Yep, they've been practicing pompous, out-of-touch elitism since 1912.
However, if their 'stupidity' remains unchanged despite the harsh realities of the results, which we will continue to see unfold in the months and years ahead, there must come a point at which it will become hard to argue that their 'stupidity' wasn't on purpose. See image of the stained glass window at the London School of Economics (birthplace of Fabian Socialism).
Heating up world up, so they can reshape it, by acting as wolves in sheep's clothes. If this is true, and their organization hasn't abandoned their founding principles, are they the ones at work in the Middle East at present? If so, are they working to benefit our interests.....or their own? Who stands to lose the most? One thing is certain - in the Middle East, women stand to lose the most. Men can retain their freedom so long as they nod and sway in approval of the ruling power.
And for us, western serfs, what will be our fate against forces which seek to heat things up? I argue the same thing as people in the Middle East. Political leaders seek to divide us more and more each day. We'll be fine if we nod and sway in approval of those in power.
But if we don't agree with their rhetoric, if we persist in our demand to be treated as citizens, refusing to live in serfdom, I think there will come a day when their costume comes off...and the Western ruling power elites begin to show themselves as the wolves they truly are.
