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Aug 18, 2019, 5 tweets

ISIS Khorasan are a bunch of slack jawed hillbillies from Pakistan who have no problem murdering innocents. This Pakistani-imported Maoist nihilist shit is getting old. The Afghan people, its military, Scotty Miller and his team need our full support. cnn.com/2019/08/18/pol…

We don't need to hide in forts and built giant bases with Burger Kings. We just need good people on the ground who force multiply the locals and take the fight to where they sleep. recoilweb.com/cru-222-afghan…

The goal of ISIS is to suport Sunni interests against other sects. Their franchise and training model is easy to finance, they pay more than al Qaeda but we have years of experience (1899 - today) in battling these groups. We just always ignore the basics and build out every war.

ISIS is easy to kill before they get entrenched. Harder once they hide among the civilians. This is why it was easy to annihilate most of the first ISIS franchise in 21 days around Achin. But big armies and big bombs can only support targeted ground ops. afghanistan-analysts.org/the-battle-for…

ISIS in Afghanistan is simply force projection. there is no public support for ISIS nor is there any logical end state. Again we have the tools, but we need the commitment to see it through. Killing each and every member of ISIS is an ugly business. afghanistan-analysts.org/the-battle-for…

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