Iraq and ISIS Discussion

I saw the 60 minutes piece last night. It made me rage and my heart go out to those who are suffering.
 
The economics of Daesh:

Waiting for his job interview, the young Syrian was impressed by the array of high-end camera equipment, video-editing pods and overall organisation in the offices of his prospective employer. The salary, five times that of a typical Syrian civil servant, was not bad either.

“They offered me $1,500 a month, plus a car, a house and all the cameras I needed,” says the one-time tailor in his late 20s. “I remembered looking around the office. It was amazing the equipment they had in there. I remember thinking, these people can’t just be getting their money on their own. There has to be a state behind this.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/34e874ac-3dad-11e4-b782-00144feabdc0.html
 
I saw the 60 minutes piece last night. It made me rage and my heart go out to those who are suffering.

One thing they never brought up.....what would have kept ISIS from forming.....Keep Syria (Assad) in power. The more dictators that fall, the more problems we have in the region....IMHO
 
One thing they never brought up.....what would have kept ISIS from forming.....Keep Syria (Assad) in power. The more dictators that fall, the more problems we have in the region....IMHO

You really think so? I am not so sure.
 
The economics of Daesh:

Waiting for his job interview, the young Syrian was impressed by the array of high-end camera equipment, video-editing pods and overall organisation in the offices of his prospective employer. The salary, five times that of a typical Syrian civil servant, was not bad either.

“They offered me $1,500 a month, plus a car, a house and all the cameras I needed,” says the one-time tailor in his late 20s. “I remembered looking around the office. It was amazing the equipment they had in there. I remember thinking, these people can’t just be getting their money on their own. There has to be a state behind this.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/34e874ac-3dad-11e4-b782-00144feabdc0.html

They have a massive amounts of money from robbing banks, to selling crude oil. One robbery alone got them 500 mil (USD).
 
I'm going to go with GBU-57. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is.

ETA: If not that, then some other bunker buster. However, I'm sticking with the larger -57 if the fighter jet can be used as a reliable scale item.
 
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