BREAKING: US Has Begun Airstrikes in Syria Against ISIS

[Caretha]

110. How do you feel

about the US basically standing by while ISIL removed the US Taxpayers' paid for Iraq War weapons & took them to Syria?


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/15/isil-captured-52-us-made-howitzers-artillery-weapo/

ISIL captured 52 U.S.-made howitzers; artillery weapons cost 500K each
By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times - Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Sunni radicals with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may have captured as many as 52 U.S.-made M198 howitzers in their march across Iraq in June.

“They shouldn’t have too much trouble shelling large area targets like a city if they have sufficient ammo,” Jeremy Binnie of the British military consultancy HIS Janes told McClatchy news service Monday.

The artillery weapons, which cost roughly $500,000 each, include GPS aiming systems.

Mr. Binnie told McClatchy that the Islamic terrorist organization would have a difficult time figuring out exactly how to use the technology’s pinpoint accuracy, but that members would still be able to do significant damage. Each howitzer has a range of 20 miles and can fire two rounds per minute.

In addition to the stolen artillery weapons, ISIL is also in possession of 1,500 armored Humvees, McClatchy reported.

That ain't even the half of all the weapons and equipment they toted from Iraq to Syria. Could we have taken out those supply lines and destroyed these weapons. Sure we could have, but we didn't. Now think boys & girls why would that be?

Even little ol me, even though I'm not a military strategist or General or hell...I don't even work in one of those Pentagon think tanks could have figured that one out - simple, destroy the weapons before they fall into the hands of the bad guys.