re: ISIS is not a threat to the U.S.

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How is it exactly that this number has tripled in two weeks? Everytime I used to see it here it was noted as $1 million a day. And I also have to wonder what currency they are really trading in, etc.

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Houston Chronicle from this weekend

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Also read this morning that we are hitting some of their oil resources to shut a bunch of this shite down

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It boggles my mind. They had captured large swaths of Iraq and Syria, the U.S. and western allies weren't stopping them because everyone is so war-weary, they were generating tons of $ from their stolen oil wells and they were well on their way to establishing a caliphate - which was their stated goal.

Then they started cutting people's heads off. They goaded us into a fight. This pretty much guarantees that we're going to attack and destroy their oil (as you point out) and put them on the defensive (where they have to fight in open - can't blend in to population). Some say it was for recruiting. I would think you could recruit better with $3 million/day living in relative peace than living in caves and being constantly shot at.