I don't understand what you think would happen. Ok, we have satellite images showing the Islamic State. Now what? Infiltrate ISIS and do what? Clandestinely kill 50,000 soldiers? Again, the problem here is not a lack of information. We know where they are, we know what they're doing. We can't indiscriminately bomb them out of existence because it would be grossly immoral. We can't put boots on the ground and invade because we just spent 13 years doing that in Iraq...and it created ISIS. So we just do little drone strikes here and there, bombings here and there, and provide weapons and aid for people fighting ISIS (which often ends up in the hands of ISIS). This is a very complex mess that can't be solved by just taking satellite pictures or "infiltrating" ISIS.
Why kill all of them when you can kill those who control it. After that most of them will get confused and you use the old 'divide and conquer' tactic.
The whereabouts of the leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, are unknown. But that's basically the strategy the US used in going after Al-Queda (you might remember that playing card deck system they used for most wanted). ISIS' top command personnel is largely made up of officers from Saddam Hussein's toppled regime though, so they're no slouches, they know how to move in silence. It's very difficult to effectively destroy a large force like ISIS from the air. They had to actually sweep Afghanistan and Iraq with ground forces to root out Al-Qaeda. No one is willing to go through that again, especially when there's no guarantee that the aftermath will be any better. Can't go poking around a hornet's nest and expect not to be stung.
I...don't know all that. I find American negligence and hubris to be very perfectly reasonable causes of this mess though.you think this is accidental?
"We're funding rebels to fight 'terrorists' who just so happen to be against one of the few Leaders in the world not controlled by a Rothschild bank...
Just like Libya...
Just like Iraq...
Just like so many others... THIS time it's different huh? All just a coincidence
Taliban.
