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In reply to the discussion: Everyone hates ISIS....So what do you want to do about it ? [View all]Warpy
(111,245 posts)in bombing their oil depots and refineries. That's where their funding has largely been from, that and a few of the more rabid Wahabs in the House of Saud. I also suspect he released oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to start knocking prices down, something the non-rabid Wahabs in the House of Saud have been complicit with.
Unfortunately, every drop of oil is bought and sold about ten times before it gets to a refinery and several times after that, so there is no way to track a tanker full of oil to its origin. Had there been, I think the world would be acting as one in leaving those crooks sitting in a sticky oil patch with no way to get rid of it.
One thing executing the Japanese journalists has done is demonstrate to the world that ISIS are nothing but a bunch of overly armed brigands whose only use for the rest of us is as ransom bait. If we fail to generate millions in ransom money, they execute us for the crime of being alive.
All the west can do is try to cut off their funding, something that is being done via low prices and strategic bombing of facilities. It's up to the rest of the Muslims to repudiate these war lords, isolate them, and eliminate their ability to poison the young with their violent perversion of Islam. I wish them luck in that endeavor.