Remember ISIS? They’re Shooting Their Fleeing Comrades Now

Posted by | March 12, 2015 23:00 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Tommy Christopher Top Stories War & Peace

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Remember when ISIS was the terrifying Islamic Godzilla…that was going to kill us all? Ever since the specter of Hillary Clinton’s email reared its Republic-threatening head, you hardly ever hear about them anymore, but they’re still out there, and things have gone from bad to worse for them.

Just one reporter, The Associated Press‘ Nedra Pickler, found time this week to run between the Hillary/Iran letter snowflakes to ask about the formerly Most Important Threat Ever. Of course, it was mainly to ask if ISIS getting their balls beaten off in Tikrit is somehow bad new, but it gave White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest to provide an update on just how badly things are going for ISIS…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

33 responses to Remember ISIS? They’re Shooting Their Fleeing Comrades Now

  1. AAASuperPatriot March 12th, 2015 at 23:34

    As the guys are running away and their former ISIS comrades are shooting at them, I wonder if any of them think, “OK, I deserve this.”

  2. tracey marie March 12th, 2015 at 23:38

    don’t link to them…everytime multiple ads, videos and pleas for money pop up

    • AAASuperPatriot March 12th, 2015 at 23:59

      I made the mistake of linking to ISIS once. Lots of Jihadi spam.

    • Hirightnow March 13th, 2015 at 10:23

      Adblocker plus. (But disable it for alan.com, of course…)

  3. fancypants March 12th, 2015 at 23:42

    I don’t think the sanctions put on iran are hurting them much
    maybe its their bad behavior and lack of friends

    • AAASuperPatriot March 12th, 2015 at 23:45

      ISIS and Iran are enemies.

      • fancypants March 12th, 2015 at 23:52

        I don’t recall ISIL ever attempting to attack iran since they fear no one. Nor do I recall iran punishing ISIL for their destruction of Muslim mosques and the religion it represents Those godless freaks !
        funny how that all works out

        • AAASuperPatriot March 12th, 2015 at 23:58

          I’m not sure I follow your drift. But it’s been widely reported that Iran is attacking ISIS/ISIL.

          But I think even ISIS isn’t dumb enough to attack Iran.

          • Jaz March 13th, 2015 at 00:47

            Tim Lister for CNN writes,”A CNN team that’s seen the offensive at close quarters noted that Iraqi
            army commanders appeared to be taking a subordinate role to leaders of
            the Shia militia, notably Hadi al Ameri, leader of the Badr
            Organization. Iranian military advisers are on hand, and highly
            influential on the battlefield.”

            http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/11/middleeast/lister-iraq-iran/

            Pretty interesting read. Fully explains the incompetence of Iraqi forces even after they received 20billion dollars to organize an army.

          • fancypants March 13th, 2015 at 01:01

            why not ? they claim to destroy anything that’s Muslim not associated to islam. Is iran all islam ?

        • wpadon March 13th, 2015 at 09:27

          I am under the impression that geography plays a part in your observation. The movement was founded in Syria and expanded into northern Iraq as a ground movement. They did not attack Iran simply because they had not reached Iran, like they had with Turkey. The Iranian involvement grew after the Iraqi forces shown their inability to stand and fight. ISIL is no more Godless than the “right to life” movement here in the states.

          • fancypants March 14th, 2015 at 12:19

            Nothing wrong with my geography at all As a matter of fact there was plenty of opportunity for isil to invade iran (see map ) and chose to stay in other countries. The map also suggests that iran is protected more then any other country around it I wonder why ?

            • wpadon March 14th, 2015 at 14:34

              Looking at the map you provided, the Peshmerga stood between ISIL and Iran. The lack of roads, perhaps two of them, into Iran from northern Iraq would also pose a problem for a group that relies of wheeled vehicles for mobility. To move into Iran, ISIL’s flank would be exposed to assault from the Peshmerga and the Iraqi security forces.
              Saudi Arabia enjoys far more protection, second only to Israel in the Middle East.

              • fancypants March 14th, 2015 at 14:56

                which doesn’t answer the question Why does iran get all the protection when they have an army to do that ? it doesn’t add up

    • rg9rts March 13th, 2015 at 02:22

      Irani and Iraqi troops are fighting ISIS together…read the news

  4. jybarz March 12th, 2015 at 23:43

    If they are fleeing and get executed, who then gets the 72 virgins already booked for them?

    • fancypants March 12th, 2015 at 23:48

      a few must have come back to life on the battlefield
      it’s going to be a real heartbreaker

    • William March 13th, 2015 at 02:20

      “who then gets the 72 virgins already booked for them?”
      Good question, maybe the virgins just hang around the star trek convention until needed.

      • jybarz March 13th, 2015 at 05:08

        If these are the virgins, they’d probably want their money back. Might even want to be rerouted do to hell instead.

  5. rg9rts March 13th, 2015 at 02:21

    It’s all fun and games till you have to pay the piper

  6. bahlers March 13th, 2015 at 04:52

    And in other Middle East News that actually is a legitimate threat, Iran now has an intercontinental ballistic missile cable of delivering a nuke 3,000km. Unless multiple news outlets and the wiki are spreading propaganda.

    • OldLefty March 13th, 2015 at 08:08

      Iran is less a threat than many others there like N Korea and Pakistan.

      But please cite your source.

      In 2002, India and Pakistan were “on the brink”.

      Tony Blair went to defuse the situation and also to sell each country more weapons,
      “The same time that the prime minister and the foreign secretary have been over in India trying to play a role as a peace broker in the Kashmir crisis, we’ve also in effect been acting as an arms broker,” says Andy McLean of the London-based think tank Saferworld. “And the government has been directly pushing the sale of jets which we will know could be used both directly in Kashmir and also will be used to train Indian pilots to fly much more deadly fighter jets which could also be used in Kashmir and potentially which could be used to carry nuclear weapons.”
      http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/28/arms.sales/index.html?related

      http://www.pakdef.org/forum/topic/2365-britain-pushes-india-military-jet-sale/

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2012255.stm

    • arc99 March 13th, 2015 at 10:29

      The Iranian “nuclear threat” is the biggest hoax since Saddam’s WMD’s.

      Not saying that it is a hoax that Iran might be working on a nuclear weapon in secret. The hoax is the belief they would use a missile to deliver a nuclear warhead to Israel, and in the process wipe out every living soul on the Palestinian West Bank and distribute a toxic radiation cloud over Jordan whose capital Amman is only 70 miles away from Tel Aviv.

      The Iranian BS is like the red menace out of the 1950’s of my youth. It is nonsensical right wing hysteria. You guys may have scared me when I was 10 years old with talk of commies lurking on every street corner. But like the song says, I won’t get fooled again…

      • bahlers March 14th, 2015 at 05:29

        http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soumar_%28missile%29

        I never had the pleasure of living through that nightmare (thank God). But from what I can tell, this could be a real problem for Israel, Europe, etc. We may not be on the brink of nuclear war like in the 1950s-1990 but we are certainly on a teater totter of conflict in the Middle East. Blow back from Reagan, maybe. Blowback from a bunch of stuff, maybe, hard to tell what makes people do what they do.

    • StoneyCurtisll March 13th, 2015 at 20:53

      Bullshit.

  7. Warman1138 March 13th, 2015 at 06:37

    The new ISIS battle cry…….RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

  8. StoneyCurtisll March 13th, 2015 at 20:52

    ISIL better enjoy their caliphate now…
    Cause it’s not going be be around much longer.

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