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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I seem to recall that ISIS had published a bombed out building that she was supposed to be held in, and Jordan came back and said, nobody bombed that building.
the execution by burning of the Jordanian was the first mis-step in what was a pretty successful public relations campaign. Sure ISIS will still be able to recruit the stupid, the angry and the ill-informed, however they had just managed to get the UAE to halt their campaign, and signs of cracks were showing in the coalition, and the operational tempo of the air strikes was sharply dropping. Now its increased basically 10 fold, and there's a good chance that Jordan will eventually put a heavy formation on the ground that ISIS won't be able to combat.
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Couldn't agree more about this.
Jordan would have wanted to stay out of things for fear of mobilizing extremist and religious elements in their own population. That video was so barbaric, ISIS lost a lot of Jordanian sympathizers.
I see Jordan now taking the opportunity to liberate a part if Iraq and reassert Hashemite rule. That liberated part of Iraq will probably include an oil field.