ISIS Inc.

I picked an article by Fox News on the terrorist organization ISIS (actually ISIL). I chose Fox because its mostly all I get what with only having an antenna. ISIS has become a huge story. We first heard about them several months ago trying to take over Iraq from the North, capturing a vital fresh water damn / power plant, and generally being a nuisance. We started bombing missions on ISIS compounds and training camps, carried out by US Fifth and Sixth Fleet. We were told they were just a bunch of pushovers and would be dealt with quickly. Of course, that was not true. We are again spending millions of tax dollars to fight a terrorist group that would rather destroy the lives of innocent people just going about their lives - and our allies in the area (Turkey) don't really want to help. ISIS is not the push over we first thought. They are stealing roughly a million dollars a day in oil, sex slaves, bank deposits, and even from grocers and vendors in the areas they control! If people don't give over money, they are threatened, either by having their homes and businesses damaged, to having relatives kidnapped and killed. The oil is hitting the black market, giving ISIS millions in laundered funds - and eventually a lot of that oil is reaching American shores to be used by us. Its near impossible to track. The best we can hope for its to try to freeze their accounts and assets, and hopefully make it near impossible for ISIS to bank anywhere. I believe this article is trustworthy not because it has Fox News stamped on it ( that does help), but mostly because the Associated Press contributed to the article, meaning most if not all of this information is available to other news outlets.  This is just my opinion, but I believe public opinion is starting to shift again, as I think Obama wishes. He even admitted he and his cabinet and many of our allies underestimated ISIS. We are going from a support role to a more active role against ISIS, possibly with a ground offensive which means more tax dollars spent on another war, and more kids sent to fight - and die. I hope more can be done to avoid another ground war, but we will have to wait and see.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/23/us-islamic-state-oil-sales/