Take a look at this ISIS map. It shows their initial territorial objectives, not unlike Mein Kampf laid out Adolph Hitler's lebensraum goals for the first phase of his war for eventual Nazi global conquest. And the Islamic State is no less ambitious: half of Africa, Spain, Portugal, the Balkans and southeastern Europe up to the Danube, Turkey, the Caucasus, the entire Middle East, a goodly chunk of southern Russia (in addition to the "'stan" countries), India, and significant slice of western China as well. Without taking the time to tally up the square mileage involved, I'd say that's territory approaching, if not exceeding, the size of the continental United States. Which is doubtless in the next phase of ISIS's conquest timetable.
Silly? Impossible? Well, they've taken much of north and west Africa, the Sinai Peninsula, the horn of Africa (Somalia), they're in Yemen, they control most of Syria and Iraq, and now they are supplanting - or assimilating - the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan:
New photos purport to show ISIS fighters training at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, in what may be yet another sign of the black-clad jihadist army's expanding reach.
The pictures, obtained by a Pakistani journalist earlier this month and published by the military blog The Long War Journal, show apparent ISIS radicals training, marching in formation and brandishing heavy artillery.
So-called analysts, displaying "the Generals' Folly" of always fighting the last war, persist in dismissing ISIS's break-neck (no pun intended) expansion, showing only that they don't understand what is really happening. This is not a conventional war of aggression as was fought in the past. Twenty-first century wars are fought on many fronts - social media most especially - besides the battlefield. And even the battlefield isn't one of any rules or honor or the most minimalist displays or allowances of humanity. It is dirty, it is brutal, it is savage, it is bloodthirsty, it is viscerally shocking, and it is meant to terrify and quail the "infidel" enemy into quivering submission and surrender. It is, in other words, precisely the type of war at which the soft, decadent, culturally self-gutted West, and most especially Obamerikastan, sucks. Which is why the Islamic State is fighting it.
It isn't that the Islamic State is invading Afghanistan or anywhere else; it's that their "brand" is spreading around the world like a virus, a plague, filling up the "empty vessels," and those not sufficiently overflowing, literally with Satan's seed:
Foreign militants fighting under the black flag of ISIS are conquering territory in northern Afghanistan, terrorizing residents and outmatching the Taliban's brutality, villagers and local officials told NBC News.
The development suggests ISIS is expanding its sphere of influence beyond the Middle East and North Africa, and are moving into areas previously controlled by the Afghan Taliban.
Most of the fighters hail from Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the Caucuses — and are even more brutal than the Afghan Taliban, according to local lawmakers, police and residents interviewed by NBC News....
In addition to its campaign of terror in Iraq and Syria, ISIS's media arm announced in January that the group had designated Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan as the province of Khorasan — the name given to a historic area covering part of modern-day Iran, Afghanistan and India.
ISIS is the strong horse of the Global Jihad. They are in the ascendancy. They have accomplished more, conquered more territory, slaughtered more infidels, than al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban, et al combined, in not even a year and a half. Is it any wonder that they are spreading, unchecked, absorbing one jihadist network after another? And given that trend, and the accelerating decline of the West, and especially Obamerikastan, if you were an objective alien observer, would you bet against the Islamic State reaching its initial territorial objectives? And all the ones to follow?
And is it not a simultaneously hilarious and cruel irony that the dwindling residual U.S. military presence is being dragged, kicking and screaming, back into the spiraling fighting in Afghanistan, no matter what King Hussein has decreed?
Exit question: Care to take odds on how soon O will order a complete emergency withdrawal from Afghanistan, regardless of circumstances on the ground, regardless of timetables, agreements, or anything else? I'd say by Memorial Day is not out of the question.
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