Again, a Caliphate has happened before, so what’s the big deal? The Iranians were ‘revolutionary’ however it seems the generations after 79’ mellowed.
What “allow”? They’d fight ISIS to resist it, of course. The question is whether they’d win.
Could you give some reason you think it’s remotely possible? I mean Jordan’s military is 10X the size of ISIL and has an airforce. Jordanians would be defending their homes and ISIL is mostly foreigners. Do you know some weapon ISIL has up it’s sleeve?
Bear in mind, also, that Israel will be fighting right alongside Jordan.
Sad news, the man who was judge and ordered Saddam’s execution has now been executed himself.
I think clearly that there is a Sunni rump state being carved out of Syria and Iraq. I do not see any way in which the Iraqi government could bring itself to reconcile with its Sunni compatriots.
From the above link:
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Well, don’t forget, in any potential future where ISIS threatens Jordan, it has already consolidated its rule over northern Iraq and all of Syria and probably Lebanon too. I don’t expect that future to come, but if it does Jordan would have something to worry about – and, for all I know, ISIS might find sympathizers inside Jordan. Certainly they would if they added Palestinian liberation to their agenda.
You think Russia is going to let ISIL take over Syria? Not a chance.
Russia? What can they do about it?
They have a rather sizable military or so I hear.
Yes, but it is a long, long time since they deployed it to any zone not on or within their borders. That would be a big game-changer; other countries might not like it, the Ukraine situation has made things there too tense already.
Obama is asking Congress for $500 million to train and arm “vetted” Syrian rebels.
This is shaking out into a multi-sided war like the Lebanese Civil War. The U.S. is still against Assad but also against ISIS. Iran is for Assad but against ISIS. And so on. It’s hard to see how that can end well.
Do you think all the nations of the world are going to let ISIS or anything like it take over any large tract of territory anywhere?
Tikrit is described as a ghost town as ISF troops and Shiia volunteers launch a counter-offensive to retake the city. If the populations in these ISIS captured towns in the proposed overall terror-driven caliphate are able to leave - then the terrorists have no one to terrorize and to hold hostage against being bombed back to hell,
Maybe these thieves and killers have indigenous support in some towns they siezed but in not seeing it much in Iraq.
The ‘coward militants’ were unable to take the refinery near Baiji.
http://www.chronicle.co.zw/iraqi-military-battles-for-control-of-tikrit/
Have you seen the headlines the past week and a half.
The ‘terrorists had seized the oil refinery’ over and over and over. Now that they apoarently have not - the government keeping control over the refinery is buried down deep into stories about other events.
Are you kidding?
You think Jordan’s Bedouin army would allow their chieftain, a descendant of the prophet to be deposed?
They’re far larger, better equipped and better trained.
With the obvious exception of the Israelis, they’re the highest regarded military in the area.
The Hashemites are vastly more popular amongst the Palestinians now than they used to be in the 60s and when the PLO tried to overthrow them they got spanked.
Beyond that, Al Quaeda has never been popular or trusted by the Palestinians.
With all due respect, your fears are unjustified.
Although it might be stated as a formality, it will no doubt resonate with alot of people in the Middle East, and seems the Sunni in that area are being used a launching pad for ideological principles. Slow clap to Saudi Arabia for funding this madness.
I can only hope that for the foreign members of this barbarism, that they realise what a hollow vision they’ve come to realise.
Cite?
Everything I’ve read is that the regime itself in Saudi Arabia has been trying to support the non-Al Qaida portion of the rebels.
So while I am sure a few Saudi billionaires fund whoever they damn well please, I doubt your columnists claim of “tacit nod of approval” from the regimes.
Well it would be quite easy for that Saudi government to stop the tap of money going to these guys wouldn’t it, so why doesn’t it go after them more forcefully?