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The Bolt Report is a weekly hour of rational political debate in the dominant GreenLeft ocean that is mostly the Australian media.
ISIS is about as “contained” as Hitler was in 1939.
If the coal endowed countries of the world ramped up GTL, a big chunk of their finance & support would dissapear.
Containing a threat has always been rather dangerous. When you think they are contained you tend to relax a little. This relaxation will be while the threat generally is working to become uncontained or going in a different direction, like the terrorist attacks.
Read this morning that we (US aircraft) destroyed an ISIL convoy of oil being delivered. Over 100 tankers destroyed carrying oil. As Trump called for, destroy their access to funding.
www.military.com/daily-news/2015/11/16/us-a10-attack-planes-hit-isis-oil-convoy-crimp-terror-funding.html
I think you are on to something Warwick.
Obviously ISIL is not “contained” in the sense that they are still able to launch atrocities. But that is different from winning a war.
For a roundup of the situation on the ground in Syria, with emphasis on brutal but effective Russian intervention see:
www.strategypage.com/qnd/syria/articles/20151113.aspx
Mind you, the journos are now focused entirely on the terror, and are giving Obama a hard time about it, see Bolt again this morning:
blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/white_house_journalists_turn_on_their_weak_president/
A grave mistake being made in the Middle East is to think that what is on Facebook and Twitter is the whole story. I doubt the ISIL body count is anywhere close to that of Assad and the Allawites. Yemen is as bad but we hear hardly anything about what is going on there.
Taking sides in an ethno-religious conflict is a very bad idea. If you bomb Sunnis in the ME, you shouldn’t be surprised if they attack you in retaliation.