Obama refuses to destroy known ISIS media propaganda centers: is the real reason to eliminate collateral civilian casualties?

2015-12-17T00:36:43-05:00

Last week, the first Chinese-language Islamic State video was launched calling for Muslims to “wake up.”

The most recent English-language video mocks the suicides of soldiers returning from war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“You claim to have the greatest army history has known. You may have the numbers and weapons, but your soldiers lack good will and resolve,” the voice says in English. “Still scared from their defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, they return dead or suicidal, with over 6,500 of them killing themselves each year. So while you go around cooking the facts on the results of your military airstrikes, we continue to haunt the minds of your soldiers and sew fear into their hearts.”

According to the Times, critics on Capitol Hill question why the administration would choose not to strike once it discovered the sources of the digital messages – essentially allowing the propaganda to continue. The videos are used in recruitment efforts across the globe.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/14/us-has-mapped-isis-propaganda-centers-but-wont-lau/

U.S. has mapped ISIS propaganda centers but won’t launch military strikes

In a secret project tied to the overall U.S. campaign against the Islamic State, intelligence officials have spent months mapping out known physical locations of media safe houses where the extremist group’s operatives are compiling, editing and curating raw video and print materials into finished digital propaganda products for dissemination across the Internet.

Response by CSM Carl Cunningham made Dec 17 at 2015 12:56 AM

2015-12-17T00:56:32-05:00

We will never know the real answer. I try not to think about it.

Response by PO3 Brad Phlipot made Dec 17 at 2015 12:57 AM

2015-12-17T00:57:32-05:00

Payback is a Bitch, ISIS news flash your next, we will not make any attempt to scare you we will incinerate you, your homes, your hideouts and any and all movement on the ground, very soon you will discover the might of Americas resolve and you will have no place to hide. Soon you will be engulfed in fire.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Dec 17 at 2015 3:44 AM

2015-12-17T03:44:57-05:00

It is amazing that this administration thinks that keeping hardened terrorists in GITMO is a powerful recruiting tool for the terrorists and wants to shut it down - while allowing the actual recruitment centers to continue operation.

This administration appears to be hobbled by its own partisan propaganda.

Response by SGT Jerrold Pesz made Dec 17 at 2015 9:51 AM

2015-12-17T09:51:21-05:00

I don't think that Obama has any desire to destroy ISIS.