This just in, ISIS has a new leader!!!!!! Oh no Donny????

[pwb]

What now?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Donnie's moment in the sun has been lost.....

Back to square one.

[albacore]

2. ISIS/AlQueda/Taliban/Whoever.... they have a deep bench.

You can't kill an ideology by killing one man.

I said the same thing when US forces got Bin Laden.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. "they have a deep bench."

OMG that is the perfect term.

For several decades, how many times have we have heard "The U.S. has killed 'the number2'... <click> 'the number 2'... <click> 'the number 2'..."

[DeminPennswoods]

7. The reason to attack the head of the organization

is because the successors, however many there may be, are not usually as competent as the deceased leader.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. I remember reading something a few years ago

that described how these organizations actually create their "leadership" structures so that they don't completely fall apart if a high-level person is lost. I.e., they set up multiple cells that are separate from each other and operate semi-independently, each with a "head". And then those "heads" individually reported to the central person for marching orders but are generally unaware of what the other cells are doing. However any one of them could take over as part of some sort of succession plan, if that single central leader had been killed, and in some cases, the replacement ends up being a trusted family member of that leader who is aware of those other cells.

So that is where all these "#2" people were coming from.

[IcyPeas]

4. he said Isis has been defeated 100%.

[abqtommy]

5. snark on: If only some intelligent political or military leaders could have seen this coming!

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[UTUSN]

6. K&R