US Airstrike Hits the Caliph of ISIS!

[jordan179]

According to Al-Arabiya News, "Fate of 'critically wounded' ISIS chief unclear', an American airstrike has seriously injured and may have killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the vermin in human form who heads the self-proclaimed Islamic State, famous for torturing and murdering civilians for the glory of God and entertainment value.  This happy event

Comments

[anonymous]

Assad created ISIS. Why are we helping him?

[jordan179]

I am not sure that your first statement (Assad created ISIS) is factually correct and at present ISIS is extremely hostile to the Assad regime. While it is true that fighting ISIS indirectly helps Assad, the main reason why we are fighting ISIS is because ISIS is fighting both America and an American ally (Iraq). Are you saying that we must let Iraq fall and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis be gruesomely murdered by ISIS just to avoid indirectly helping Assad? Does that prioritization of goals really make sense to you?

[anonymous]

Iraq is little more than a puppet of Iran. Let them fall.

[jordan179]

... resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the torture of hundreds of thousands more? Why are you so willing to see innocents die en masse?

Furthermore, this would also result in ISIS conquering Syria and Iraq, and thus being in a position to launch more wars. Why do you wish to see this outcome?

Seriously, Andrew Marston of Marshfield, MA, do you want an aggressive, warlike Islamic Caliphate to be restored? If so, why? Do you just like watching Arabs die?

[eta_ta]

and thank you very much for this report

[xiphias]

I hope so. The problem, of course, is that "leadership" in these sorts of organizations seems to be very amorphous, and, while hitting someone like that DOES make a difference, it's not a "cut off the head and the snake dies" situation.

Still, it's happy news.

[jordan179]

Al-Baghdadi made a specific claim by naming himself "Caliph," namely, to be the rightful and rightly-guided successor of the Prophet. If he dies soon after declaring himself Caliph, accomplishing very little, it throws the legitimacy of his regime into question.

That's the flip side of believing in the insh'allah. If Al-Baghdadi dies, it means that it was not God's will that he triumph -- nor, by implication, that his movement triumph.

[xiphias]

I hope you're right. But I'm not certain. When I look at religious extremists of any stripe -- heck, to a lesser extent, even NON-religious extremists -- they often respond to the failure or death of the God-appointed leader as demonstrating an insufficient commitment to the cause, and double down on fanaticism.

[ford_prefect42]

http://omnifeed.com/article/www.funnyordie.com/articles/5cc00e2b09/leaked-cia-memo-we-must-arm-the-one-syrian-rebel-we-can-trust-nate

[silent_o]

snrk

[silent_o]

Sic Semper Jihadus