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Warpy

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1. BBC has been describing the rush to retake western Mosul

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2017, 10:32 PM

Feb 2017

as happening at Blitzkrieg speed. After years of pushback, it seems DAESH is finally hitting that wall of exhaustion. Even their most ardent supporters in the population have run out of enthusiasm after experiencing the reality of the harsh, 13th century rule of the New Caliphate. Most other people just want it all to be over so they can rebuild, reopen their shops, tend to their fields.

DAESH will have to start to negotiate soon, hoping for a piece of any government they can get.

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ISIS driven out of Mosul airport by Iraqi forces with American air support. [View all] applegrove Feb 2017 OP

BBC has been describing the rush to retake western Mosul Warpy Feb 2017 #1

I wonder if they have run out of jihad-derall (that middle east version of speed applegrove Feb 2017 #3

The Saudis got ahold of the stuff and tested it in a lab Warpy Feb 2017 #4

I don't know anything about illegal drugs. It may not have been speed. applegrove Feb 2017 #5

Oh, yeah, it was speed. Warpy Feb 2017 #6

Thanks. applegrove Feb 2017 #7

but Drumpf edhopper Feb 2017 #2

My brother helped with that. smirkymonkey Feb 2017 #8

Congrats to him. It is no way near over. May the people of Iraq and Syria get some peace applegrove Feb 2017 #9