ISIS / DAESH is going to be a long ongoing fight. This isn't like the days of the A-Team where you get a Hannibal Smith, B.A. Barracus, and friends fly over there and kick their asses and ******* a bunch of them, and after an hour smile with a cigar in your mouth saying "I love it when a plan comes together?"
They work from a different mindset much longer than an hour TV show, and longer than a 4 or 8 year election cycle. Thanks to Qutb they had about an 80 year head start hating America and that can't be wiped away just by killing a bunch of them. In fact you would be verifying Qutb and help sell more of his books and inspire future generations explaining to them why their Dads, Uncles, Cousins, Grandfathers, etc. are all dead before their time. Next to the Qu'ran just about any of Qutb's writings is the next best seller in the Middle East which would be in the library of just about any terrorist there as it was sold and as well received as Harry Potter books are now in the West.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb )
When Trump did send the troops there the belief at that time was that DAESH's territory was seized and others were in control like the Iraqis thanks to America's help, but also recognize people there don't really trust America despite hate-filled Qutb's writings. America used Iran as an ally against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. And Hussein once warned how he had to rule with a cruel hand as America does not understand their mindset. He even had problems with his own sons that he tried to *******: Uday and Qusay.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein )
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uday_Hussein )
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qusay_Hussein )
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https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/world/middleeast/30saddam.html )
Similarly America used Iraq to fight Iran during the hostage crisis with Carter from 1979-81 against the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis )
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini )
Syria is a wasteland, not sure if it still is, after Assad slaughtered his population and inspired any survivors to flee and become refugees in Europe, if they could reach there. But as of this moment what goes on there I have no earthly idea. Maybe your personal investigations know better
@Zwing, but I'd wager America knows what goes on through satellites and maybe a few troops there. But as I suggested earlier people there know in relatively recent memory how their nation is just a pawn to America. Behind the scenes, under the cover of night, DAESH could run things, who knows? Perhaps when you travel the souqs there again
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souq ) you can uncover first hand intelligence with your superior mastery of a variety of dialects of Arabic that you undoubtedly possess
@Zwing where you unravel mysteries that American intelligence can't? Plus like a chameleon you are instantly able to pass as a trust worthy Muslim where they are instantly at ease communicating with you not knowing your true purpose. James Bond and Jason Bourne would applaud you
@Zwing.
Syria itself was a powderkeg for several thousands of years literally from days of the Bible as Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Turkemens, Assyrians, Armenians, Circassians, Mandeans and Greeks. And religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Isma'ilis, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, Yazidis, and Jews at one point resided there so there were countless wars fought in it's history too.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria )
There is such a state of flux with a variety of activity of different peoples vying for some kind of order there getting the news from that region of the Middle East is very unreliable. Look at that Ukrainian jet that was shot down? They thought it was safe for a commercial jet to take off when it wasn't.
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https://www.cp24.com/world/iranians-shot-down-airliner-western-leaders-declare-1.4759609 )
Again it is curious how you had access to such accurate information
@Zwing yet you decided to keep it secret? When you do your foreign travels there again be sure to share your first hand information next time. What you shared could be obsolete next week. If Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Russia, or whoever else decides to bump them off and they become the next ******* to contend with? And the POTUS is only good with the information he/she works with? As I said Saddam Hussein had difficulty maintaining power unless he used cruel ******* to exterminate his enemies and then future embittered generations fill the void and seek revenge against his previous Ba'athist Party as seen here as an example:
( If Trump was truly a dictator the above video would be his instant solution to impeachment by the way
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Similarly there will be reluctance sharing ideal accurate information with Americans as it is well known among them that she played both Iran/Iraq even within my own lifetime, so from their perspective why trust giving reliable intel to America? Syria is a special case as it is under MrPutin's protection where he is friends with Assad. Plus the seeds of mistrust Qutb sowed around 80 years ago is growing a forest of doubt, mistrust, and hate that America has difficulty now to wipe out.
It is a battle to win over hearts and minds. And Trump is doing the best he can just as prior Democrats like Obama and Bill & Hillary Clinton tried yet their results were not any better over there either.
GO Trump GO
