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Re: Iraq insurgents take Saddam's home town in lightning advance
With ISIS telegraphing expanding the war to Jordan it is entirely predictable at this point that their goal will be, in roughly this order (slightly revised by ISIS given the trouble they have encountered with an equally brutal regime in Syria):
1 - Iraq
2 - Syria
3 - Jordan
4 - Israel
5 - Turkey
6 - The rest of the ME.
By #6 there will be no Islamic country standing in their way. It is all downhill from Israel.
Granted, this group of neanderthals has been skating in Iraq because of the inherent advantage of being an Islamic military that forgoes the commandment to not attack other Muslims, and their brutality has shot fear through the Iraqi military. But ISIS shows a weakness against Assad in Syria when faced with someone willing to match brutality, and are almost assuredly unable to take advantage of most of the spoils of war in Iraq. So when this 19th century throwback army decides to turn its sights in a top notch supremely trained westernized army in Israel it will likely stop there.
I don't think these backward barbarians have a concept of the destruction Israel, or any western ally, has at their disposal. The lightly armored shock army would be stopped in its tracks by just a few coordinated volleys of Israel's 48 MLRS batteries.
With ISIS telegraphing expanding the war to Jordan it is entirely predictable at this point that their goal will be, in roughly this order (slightly revised by ISIS given the trouble they have encountered with an equally brutal regime in Syria):
1 - Iraq
2 - Syria
3 - Jordan
4 - Israel
5 - Turkey
6 - The rest of the ME.
By #6 there will be no Islamic country standing in their way. It is all downhill from Israel.
Granted, this group of neanderthals has been skating in Iraq because of the inherent advantage of being an Islamic military that forgoes the commandment to not attack other Muslims, and their brutality has shot fear through the Iraqi military. But ISIS shows a weakness against Assad in Syria when faced with someone willing to match brutality, and are almost assuredly unable to take advantage of most of the spoils of war in Iraq. So when this 19th century throwback army decides to turn its sights in a top notch supremely trained westernized army in Israel it will likely stop there.
I don't think these backward barbarians have a concept of the destruction Israel, or any western ally, has at their disposal. The lightly armored shock army would be stopped in its tracks by just a few coordinated volleys of Israel's 48 MLRS batteries.