am concerned that underestimating isis / isil / folks flying black flags and same standards may lead to losses not only of oil, gas, water, and wheat, but as one might inadverdantly puncture bad cancer during an operation requiring pinpoint care, leading to spread that would require a lot of boots on the ground when such boots are busied elsewhere
should the loss of population centres happen, and as hearts and minds are lost or paralysed, difficult - remember, at some juncture a nuke or two could be lost, and when / if so, ebola would be a preferred plague
also problematic is that for anyone interested in tee-ing up biological warfare, the need for a fancy lab is no longer necessary, and am imagining that there are plenty of delivery modes available, some walking on two legs
if the black-flagged folks have the 400+ million they supposedly captured at the mosul bank vault, then that would buy a lot of walking legs
the issue of the caliphate is not that a war cannot be won against it. the issue is the all-in cost.
not good.
there are ignoramus cretins who would believe isis / isil is not a global threat, and such simply cannot fathom how many pairs of ebola-enabled legs several million can buy |