Alwaght-Why has the US Air Force not been able to wipe out the ISIS terrorist group which at the beginning was largely equipped with conventional small arms not to mention state of the art Toyota pickup trucks?
From the very beginning, this air campaign has NOT been directed against ISIS. The evidence confirms that ISIS is not the target.
The air raids are intended to destroy the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria.
If they had wanted to eliminate the ISIS brigades, they could have “carpet” bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks, when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June.
The answer is pretty obvious, yet not a single mainstream media has acknowledged it.
The Syros-Arabian Desert is an open territory. With state of the art jet fighter aircraft (F15, F22 Raptor, F16), it would have been –from a military standpoint– “a piece of cake”, a rapid and expedient surgical operation, which would have decimated ISIS convoys in a matter of hours.
Instead, what we have witnessed is an ongoing drawn out six months of relentless air raids and bombings, and the terrorist enemy is apparently still intact.
The ISIS is not only protected by the US and its allies, it is trained and financed by US-NATO, with the support of Israel and Washington’s Persian Gulf allies.
News articles by prominent British and American news outlets like the Daily Beast’s “America’s Allies Are Funding ISIS,” the London Telegraph’s “How ISIS funded, trained and operating in Iraq and Syria,” and the Daily Mail’s “Cameron tells European leaders to ‘be good to their word’ and stop funding ISIS with ransom payments,” give explanations ranging from outright admissions that Saudi, Qatar, Jordan, and Turkey are directly arming, funding, aiding and abetting ISIS, to descriptions that read like an immense money laundering operation, to ridiculous claims including “ransom payments” and “robbed banks” have been behind ISIS’ regional rise to menace.
According to Retired general Wesley Clark, ISIS was created and funded by our “closest allies.” As the General said: "ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies… to fight to the death against Hezbollah." Which friends and allies, he did not say. However, he did suggest that it has become a “Frankenstein monster.”
Moreover, German Development Minister Gerd Mueller accused Qatar back in 2014, of financing ISIS terrorists. “You have to ask who is arming, who is financing ISIS troops. The keyword there is Qatar – and how do we deal with these people and states politically?” said Mueller, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the center-right Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.
Yousaf al-Salafi – allegedly the Pakistan commander of ISIS or Daish – has confessed during investigations that he has been receiving funds through the United States. “During the investigations, Yousaf al-Salafi revealed that he was getting funding – routed through America – to run the organization in Pakistan and recruit young people to fight in Syria,” a source privy to the investigations revealed to Daily Express.
Military analyst Colonel James Hanke, editor for Veterans Today noted the following:
“There is a clear divergence of purpose here. Watching ISIS operate, it is clear they have received far superior training than that given the Iraqi Army, training the US spent several hundred billion dollars on. The secret training camps in Jordan, established three years ago, but now “gone dark,” are staffed with elite Special Forces. There is strong evidence that the core of ISIS capability is tied to these bases in Jordan and “black budget” facilities known only to the likes of Senator John McCain, soon to take over as Chairman of the all-powerful Senate Armed Services Committee.”
Sources citing the Jordanian bases used to train ISIS also note that wounded ISIS fighters transit Jordan for treatment in Israeli hospitals. Moreover, though ISIS fighters are clearly being transited through Turkey, likely a new American trained batch numbering 2000 are “in the works,” it is also clear the majority are coming through Israel regime and Saudi to US training facilities in Jordan.
The West does not desire an end to the massive state-sponsorship of ISIS via its own allies, namely Saudi, Qatar, Turkey, Jordan, and others.
It appears instead that the West and its partners are pursuing a dual-track strategy of inflaming the region with barbarism and violence so appalling, global public opinion will desperately beg for military intervention by the United States and its allies — a military intervention that the West has been unsuccessful selling to the world via any other pretense.
The Daily Beast (a media company formerly owned by Newsweek) notes, in a story entitled “America’s Allies Are Funding ISIS”:
A key component of ISIS’s support came from wealthy individuals in the Persian Gulf States of Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi. Sometimes the support came with the tacit nod of approval from those regimes ….
“The US Treasury is aware of this activity and has expressed concern about this flow of private financing. But, Western diplomats’ and officials’ general response has been a collective shrug,” the report states.
The same issues which drove war and terrorism in the West Asia in the 1930s and 1940s are still driving it today
The US is bombing Iraq again in order to protect the major oil center in Erbil.
The war in Syria is also largely about oil and gas. International Business Times noted last year: Syria controls one of the largest conventional hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Mediterranean.
Syria possessed 2.5 billion barrels of crude oil as of January 2013, which makes it the largest proved reserve of crude oil in the eastern Mediterranean according to the Oil & Gas Journal estimate.
ISIS has been selling smuggled Syrian oil in Turkey worth $800 million, according to Ali Ediboglu, a lawmaker for the border province of Hatay from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).
Yavuz, a political analyst and former military officer who taught at Turkey’s military academy, insists that Turkey, which has NATO’s second-biggest military after the United States, could at least do more against the illegal border trade. At a minimum, it could boost the number of troops it has patrolling the 900-kilometer frontier.
Yavuz said that the smugglers had helpers in Turkish villages on the border and that people involved in the illegal trade felt so safe, they did not even hide their activities. “Pipelines are no longer built during the night, but in broad daylight,” he said.
It was American journalist Serena Shim, recently killed in Turkey, who discovered Sarin gas being transited from Georgia to Al Qaeda backed forces near Aleppo. Before her death, she had filmed ISIS fighters being transited into Syria by the Turkish government.
After all, there is evidence that the U.S. and its allies have wanted to break up the nations of Iraq and Syria for decades. And ISIS has done so.
