figure it out on their own?

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She claims in her latest article that that keeping enemy prisoners of war and civilians as slaves during war is justified in the “great prophetic Sunnah (teachings of Mohamed) containing many divine wisdoms and religious benefits” in Islamic traditions.

“As for the slave-girl that was taken by the swords of men following the cheerful warrior then her enslavement is in opposition to human rights and copulation with her is rape?! What is wrong with you? How do you make such a judgment? What is your religion? What is your law? Rather, tell me who is your lord?’ Allah has opened the lands for His awliya [supporter], so they entered and dispersed within the lands, killing the fighters of the kuffar [non-believer], capturing their women, and enslaving their children,” the author says while admitting that the terror group has looted villages and kidnapped women.

The latest article comes as the terror group has been enslaving and sexually abusing the women – particularly Iraq’s minority Yazidi community it captures and justifies the horrendous sex crimes as Sunnah.

http://www.khaama.com/forced-sex-is-not-rape-isis-jihadi-bride-claims-9444

off awhile ago.

It seems to me the US would like very much for someone else to do the heavy lifting,
and they need to at least acknowledge in Iraq, after all that money on military equipment and
training it was ineffective..so I get what Iran is complaining about. Put Humpty Dumpty back together
for us.

Maybe we have admitted that much and I missed it.

I think you have it about right.

We have a choice between the continuation and expansion of this chaos and getting in bed with people we have been doing our best to annoy for decades: Iran, Russia, Syria and stiffing our old friends: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt.

And even then there is no guarantee we will be able to put the lid back on, is there?

the outlook seems bleak, at best.

Although it is wise to utilize the alleged true evil doers, Iran, Hamas, Hezbullah,
but even then you have the issue of how does the US force Iraq to feel motivated
as do the Kurds...who have had some success against ISIS.

I would like to think this disaster of Bush's will shift our foreign policies to the sane
level and never be repeated...what a fucking mess.

Thanks for the links.

It is a threat to all the Sunni powers in the area though, and I think that is beginning to occur to some of them.

If it is allowed to stay there it will become a sort of bandit state, I think.

Butt covering from all & sundry. But this is usual when the led refuse to follow and the leaders must explain why.

Meanwhile the jihadis could care less, they want revenge.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq and Iran pushed back Monday against U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter's criticisms over the fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State group, with an Iranian general going as far as saying America had "no will" to fight the extremists.

In Baghdad, a spokesman to Iraq's prime minister suggested Carter had "incorrect information," while Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds forces in Iran's Revolutionary Guard, offered his own assessment of American forces.

The war of words over the loss of Ramadi, amid other gains by the Islamic State group in recent days, lay bare the fissures among countries that have become allies of convenience against the militants. And as Iraqi troops continue to flee their advance, governments across the world are questioning whether relying on Iraqi troops and militiamen on the ground alone will be enough to stop them.

The criticism began Sunday, when Carter told CNN's "State of the Union" news show that Iraqi forces "vastly outnumbered" the Islamic State group, but still "showed no will to fight" and fled their advance on Ramadi.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISLAMIC_STATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-25-07-52-22

Major General Qassem Soleimani, chief of the elite Quds Force in Iran's Revolutionary Guard, has said the US military and its Allies are failing to take the fight to the Islamic State, with Iran consequently left as the only power with a presence in the region to fight the militants.

"Today, there is nobody in the fight with [the Islamic State group] except the Islamic Republic of Iran," Soleimani was quoted by Iranian news outlets as saying on Monday, adding that nations next to or supported by Iran are involved in the battle, but that the US "didn't do a damn thing" to stop the Islamic State's advance on Ramadi.

The US does not have the will to tackle the militant's advance, concluded Soleimani, in remarks which come after US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter accused Iraqi troops in turn on Sunday of having "no will to fight" in Ramadi,

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150525/1022532836.html

Senator John McCain on Sunday attacked the president for citing climate change as a threat to national security, suggesting that the Obama administration’s focus on environmental issues was detracting from the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

The comments by the Senate armed services committee chairman were part of a rotating blame game over the Memorial Day weekend about who is responsible for recent gains by Isis fighters, who last week took control of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and the Iraqi city of Ramadi.

“There is no strategy, and anybody who says there is, I’d like to hear what it is,” McCain said, appearing on CBS News. “Because it certainly isn’t apparent. Right now we are seeing these horrible reports , in Palmyra, they’re executing people and leaving their bodies in the streets.

“Meanwhile the president of the United States is saying that the biggest problem we have is climate change.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/john-mccain-mocks-obama-for-calling-climate-change-a-threat-as-isis-advances/

Doha: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Sunday rejected claims a US-led coalition air campaign against the IS group has failed following advances by militants in Syria and Iraq.

Speaking in Doha, after a meeting between foreign ministers of the GCC and European Union (EU), Khalid Al Attiyah, Qatar's foreign minister, conceded that military action alone was not enough.

"The coalition is not failing but the air campaign is not enough," Attiyah, who was representing GCC countries at the meeting, told reporters.

"There are so many steps which we have to cooperate and coordinate together. To date the campaign against terror is effective.

http://www.timesofoman.com/News/52130/Article-GCC-denies-US-led-coalition-air-campaign-against-IS-militant-group-has-failed

The uneasy international alliance against Islamic State militants has descended into acrimony as allies traded accusations that a lack of will to fight led to the fall of Ramadi last week.

Iraqi and Iranian officials reacted angrily to remarks from Ash Carter, US Defence Secretary, that Baghdad’s forces had been beaten by a far smaller force because they lacked motivation.

Tehran responded saying America had not done “a damn thing” to prevent the alliance’s worst defeat in its year-long battle against the militants also known as Isil.

But a British former general echoed the comments by Mr Carter, saying rebuilding Iraq’s army could take a generation and sending more international troops to help it fight Islamic State forces will not solve its "will power" problem.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11628351/Generation-needed-to-rebuild-Iraqi-Army-says-British-general.html

Wishful thinking.

Iranians will demand their government spend a windfall from the lifting of economic sanctions on improving the quality of life at home, limiting the degree to which a future nuclear deal could fund Tehran's allies on Middle East battlefields.

Since 2012, Iran has given support worth billions of dollars to regional allies, funding and arming mainly fellow Shi'ite Muslims in conflicts that have taken on a sectarian dimension. Its enemies say lifting sanctions will provide it with the means to do even more.

Within months of financial sanctions being lifted, Iran will be able to collect debts from overseas banks that may exceed $100 billion, mostly from oil importers whose payments have been blocked, diplomats and analysts said.

But with the budget strained by last year's heavy fall in oil prices, and public expectations of improved socio-economic conditions in the event of a deal, the authorities will face pressure to invest new funds at home.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/25/us-iran-nuclear-funding-idUSKBN0OA0Z720150525