Wednesday, November 18, 2015

What Defeating ISIS Would Look Like

Via David

Image Credit: Getty

Here, at night in the heart of the caliphate, the only sound was the laughing of the ISIS fighters lounging about in the safety of their capital. The screams that had pierced the air when the jihadis had captured the Syrian city of Raqqa on the northern bank of the Euphrates were gone; those infidels who had not been butchered had fled.

But there was a rumble in the sky, but not like from one of the few American jets that would occasionally drop a bomb and then depart. No, this was deeper and more distant. The jihadis stopped talking to listen, puzzled. Then they and their world were torn apart.

The first wave of 12 B-52H’s emptied their bays of 750-pound dumb bombs directly over the heart of Raqqa, followed by a second wave, then a third. Crack Air Force ground crews were waiting back at the base in Saudi Arabia, and rearmament took less than two hours. Then they headed north again. In 24 hours, Raqqa ceased to exist.

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4 comments:

  1. Heh.

    Hard to argue with dumb bombs; especially when they keep raining down from the heavens.

    Cause they don't leave much to argue about.


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  2. Again, the very first strike would be the nuking of Mecca and Medina. I would also add some napalm along with the dumb bombs. As for the above described, I would also have the Engineers come in with bulldozers to level the place flat.

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