An ISIS leader, fill in latest name here, was on the real
Blacklist, not the TV show.
Should we expect a downturn in ISIS activity, or as Andrew
Cockburn shows in the “Kill Chain” is it more likely to result in a “surge” in
terrorist activity?
Or does the fact that a Reuters’ photo that shows what could
be two persons going up a hill mean that it is a Sisyphean struggle except that
there is more than one Prometheus?
Put more simply, is it “whack-a-mole?”
The raid not only dominated the mainstream media but also
Tweeter, though as usual there were cynics.
Marty Susman Tweeted: “This reminds me of the supposed body count in
Vietnam, if we added up the supposed killed North Viet Nam troops…”
That recalls the apocryphal
story about the world’s biggest computer being asked in 1970 when the Vietnam
War would end at the current ratio of Vietcong and North Vietnamese being
killed. It replied: “1969.”
Some Tweeted that more
attention be paid to an ISIS offensive had resulted in the capture of important
buildings in Ramadi.
U.S. military talking heads said the biggest city in western
Iraq may fall.
Some reports made it sound like a victory in a playoff game.
Some alternative media noted that the FBI had been very quick
to rule out terrorism in the Philadelphia Amtrak derailment. Certainly if ISIS
was involved they would have claimed responsibility on social media.
Allah forbid that they should ever decide to go completely
underground and leave us guessing.
ISIS had promised harsher attacks on U.S. soil and that the
next six months would be interesting.
ISIS
ACCOUNTANT KILLED
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