(July 30, 2017 at 11:25 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 30, 2017 at 6:36 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: Shouldn't have voted for the shit who'd fuck you over for a few brass tacks. Yes, I know he promised to force one of your religious ideologies on everybody else, but is destroying the world a price worth paying for theocracy.
Um I didn't vote for Trump if that's what you are implying
Does anyone know what the status is on Isis? Are they hurting, continuing to grow, losing the war, etc?
Their pretensions of forming a state have been crushed. In fact, their greatest victory was the start of their defeat. The problem with capturing cities is that if you fail to hold them then you no longer look like a winner - you look like a loser and they never had any hope of standing up to any modern army with complete air supremacy in a straight up fight. By taking Mosul they screwed themselves although to be fair they didn't take Mosul so much as the Iraqis gave it to them without a fight. The actions of the Iraqi army at Mosul in 2014 were shameful. They ran like rabbits from a force they outnumbered 10-1. You'd think we would learn by now that you can't expect a mercenary army to fight but then again, we never learn.
As an actual army, ISIS is finished. They will go back to doing what they do best. Pin prick terror strikes. Expect enough civil strife inside Iraq to give them plenty of targets.
