The alliance of the US, the Saudi Arabia and the UAE had pounded the ISIS strongholds on either side of the border of Syria and Iraq, through numerous air sorties. It's commendable that countries like Jordan have also joined the alliance to fight the curse, that the outfit is all about, despite the enormous danger of backfire from the terrorists upon their countries!
France has since joined in after their tourist was beheaded despite pleas to free him. England is poised to join the coalition in due course.
The inhuman attitude of the terrorist outfit came once again to the fore, when it publicly executed the Iraqi woman lawyer, Samira Salih al-Nuaimi for her Facebook posts that were critical of its destruction of religious sites in Mosul. She was taken away from her home on 17 Sep, tortured relentlessly for five days and executed!
What sort of beasts are they? Stories abound as to how they seize young girls and subject them to the worst forms of sexual assault. Don't these guys have their mothers and sisters and haven't they been groomed to respect women? How've they grown up to be the monsters that they are?
My take.
Will aerial assaults, by themselves, be enough to finish of this deadly band of guys? They'll have no compunction to use the poor, unsuspecting civilians as shields from being identified and targeted and later on use the very same pictures to show as to how innocents had been killed by the allied strikes, to score brownie points with the rest of the world.
Eventually, 'boots will have to be deployed on the ground' - a euphemism for the army columns - to mop up the last of the deadly 'virus' and consolidate the success of the airstrikes. But will the governments, including that of the US, risk it because of its attendant military casualties? And mind you, Obama had come to power on his relentless anti-war criticism against George Bush's deployment of the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with a promise of pullback of all forces from foreign soil!
Tailpiece.
There is no half baked solution to tackle terrorism that has become rampant in almost every part of the globe. It has to be done collectively to pool the resources for concentrated application relentlessly at the targets to maximise the destruction of evil!
France has since joined in after their tourist was beheaded despite pleas to free him. England is poised to join the coalition in due course.
The inhuman attitude of the terrorist outfit came once again to the fore, when it publicly executed the Iraqi woman lawyer, Samira Salih al-Nuaimi for her Facebook posts that were critical of its destruction of religious sites in Mosul. She was taken away from her home on 17 Sep, tortured relentlessly for five days and executed!
What sort of beasts are they? Stories abound as to how they seize young girls and subject them to the worst forms of sexual assault. Don't these guys have their mothers and sisters and haven't they been groomed to respect women? How've they grown up to be the monsters that they are?
My take.
Will aerial assaults, by themselves, be enough to finish of this deadly band of guys? They'll have no compunction to use the poor, unsuspecting civilians as shields from being identified and targeted and later on use the very same pictures to show as to how innocents had been killed by the allied strikes, to score brownie points with the rest of the world.
Eventually, 'boots will have to be deployed on the ground' - a euphemism for the army columns - to mop up the last of the deadly 'virus' and consolidate the success of the airstrikes. But will the governments, including that of the US, risk it because of its attendant military casualties? And mind you, Obama had come to power on his relentless anti-war criticism against George Bush's deployment of the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with a promise of pullback of all forces from foreign soil!
Tailpiece.
There is no half baked solution to tackle terrorism that has become rampant in almost every part of the globe. It has to be done collectively to pool the resources for concentrated application relentlessly at the targets to maximise the destruction of evil!
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