Guardian: Reports " The loss of the city and its surrounding gas fields, which supply electricity to much of the Assad regime’s strongholds in western Syria, is another strategic defeat that could expose Homs and Damascus to the terror group’s advances. "
Lets Get Real:
The recent success of IS in Iraq and now Syria shows that air bombing alone does not work with IS, as the New York Times pointed out yesterday, when there is a sand storm in strategic places such as Ramadi IS will move, the Western airforces are stalled on the ground. The US must have a rethink of its IS strategy, of course this depends on POTUS, if Obama hopes to pass the issue on to his successor he might be out of luck, history can strike when it wants, not the other way around, the tail end of the Obama Presidency can not be that he LOST IRAQ to IS and was afraid to change his mind, history is not forgiving of weak Presidents. The US as stated by this blog as others needs ground troops in Iraq, that is the only way to WIN, otherwise you have failure.
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