{"id":62830,"date":"2015-11-16T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62830"},"modified":"2015-11-16T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:26:35","slug":"france-and-their-merciless-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62830","title":{"rendered":"France and their “merciless response”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, the French president promised that the attacks in Paris on Friday night would earn ISIS a “merciless response” from the French people. So, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, they dropped 20 bombs on ISIS last night;<\/p>\n

For France, the strikes were a major escalation in its air campaign. While involving far fewer aircraft than the U.S. used in the opening night of the American-led strikes in Syria last year, the bombing campaign was a significant use of the combat power France has in the region.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s strikes followed a U.S. decision to expand intelligence sharing with France in support of the retaliatory bombings of Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, let me get this straight; the US knew where these targets were on Thursday, but they hadn’t taken action? See, that’s not how you fight these animals of ISIS. When you verify a target, you destroy it, right then. You don’t wait around until it gives you a political advantage to destroy it. Also, the US hasn’t been sharing targeting information with the French until now? WTAF? And, by the way, 20 bombs is not “merciless” – unless the media misinterpreted the president’s speech and he meant that he wasn’t going to say “merci”.<\/p>\n

So, while France was dropping their twenty bombs on actual ISIS personnel, what was the US doing? According to AFP<\/a>, they took out 116 fuel trucks – not a very cost-effective endeavor.<\/p>\n

Strikes by the US-led air coalition fighting the Islamic State group destroyed 116 fuel trucks used by the jihadist organisation in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Pentagon said the trucks were destroyed in a single strike on Sunday near Albu Kamal, an IS-held town in Deir Ezzor province along Syria’s border with Iraq. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“Our spokesperson Colonel (Steve) Warren previously stated that we were going to start going after ISIL’s financial abilities,” the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

“This strike was part of that strategy to start degrading their financial ability.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unless those fuel trucks were bound for Europe and to be used a bombs, I have to ask “why?” Sure I understand how cutting their supply systems makes fighting against ISIS easier for the peshmerga and Iraqi troops, but, so does killing huge numbers of ISIS soldiers. Obviously, if we know where the fuel trucks are, we know where the staging areas for ISIS soldiers are located. The war won’t end until all of the ISIS troops are dead. Every last one. Destroying fuel supplies worked against mechanized units of the Germans in World War Two, but it will do little to stop the foot soldiers of the Islamic State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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