Originally Posted by
Ransom
You were absolutely correct Peter. ISIS didn't last long.
You did hit some nails on the head. Outcomes in Syria never reached a level of vital national interests to the United States. US covert military operations were never required in proving you correct. In fact 6 months before the Islamic State unleashed it's terror attacks in Paris, your claim that they were hardly any threat at all and that there were many other terror groups we should focus on turned out to be spot on. You were also correct when standing me corrected. You'll remember, I tried to link to investigations in each of every one of our 50 united States of America of ISIS activity right here in this country.....and you correctly reminded me that these intelligence agencies often must inflate the threat matrix to ensure their full funding. You were the Member here who taught me, Pete, that these heads of agencies coming to Congress warning us that the Islamic State was indeed a threat....was merely a funding agenda.
Too fluid to tell. As we know, many 'affiliate' or declare allegiance to ISIS but doesn't really mean ISIL coordinates or controls events within or outside the ME. Terror cells often take credit for jihadist attacks, it aids a great deal in recruitment. You'll remember ISIS had a quite successful recruitment campaign even right here in the US much of it due to their success on the battlefields in the ME. Actually, I don't know if you'll remember that or not. You'll remember, you never took their recruitment abilities seriously, intel concerning such threats had 'full funding' at its' source.
I'm just so sorry Peter. The entire ISIS issue, our level of involvement, the threat matrix they presented.....was your biggest swing and miss on this forum. To date,