Can someone answer this question please?

[world wide wally]

How does ISIL keep advancing on major cities like Baghdad ad Korbane if they are being bombed?

I have seen photos of them marching down the road in broad daylight, yet the fighter planes can't find them?

If someone can explain this...I am all ears.

[femmocrat]

1. I wondered the same thing.

Are they not bombing the convoys? I thought those drones could see an ant on the ground.

[CJCRANE]

2. Good point. If they have enough heavy weaponry, artillery and vehicles

to take a town or attack a city, that implies they have stuff that can be targeted.

[arcane1]

3. If I were conspiracy-minded, I'd venture that the air strikes are deliberately ineffective.

Therefore making "boots on the ground" appear more necessary

[Cali_Democrat]

4. A fighter plane flies thousands of feet in the air at a very high rate of speed

Hard to target a single person and/or a small moving vehicle like a pickup truck.

The planes are more suited for hitting fixed targets like buildings.

Simple.

Where my money?

[world wide wally]

6. No radar of any kind? No drone survellience?

[AngryAmish]

5. They mostly use civilian vehicles

Teucks and minivans. Hard to tell who the bad guys are from 50000 feet.

They dont wear uniforms.

This is so stupid. We are doomed to lose. The only way to win is unthinkable to us. Then why fight this stupid war?

[SomethingFishy]

7. I have been asking these questions for weeks...

This whole thing seems insane to me. They say ISIS, ISIL, ISSA whatever the fuck they are called today, has 30,000 members.(probably up to 50 by now thanks to us) Yet we are shitting in our pants like they are the next coming of Hitler. I was reading a list of the US military capabilities and the whole thing is ridiculous. We have more small armored vehicles than they have people in their entire army. We have 1 tank for every three members of ISIS. We have enough small arms that we don't even need fucking bullets, we could just drop them from the sky and conk people on the head with them...

Bambie Vs Godzilla, except Godzilla is crapping in his pants. Bambi's coming to Tokyo to get him don't ya know...

[world wide wally]

9. I like your scenario

[Warpy]

8. Obviously they've got a great ground game and a lot of local support

which means that either they're not the mad dog butchers the media are claiming they are or local populations are supporting them only because they're the first really credible opposition to being overrun by the west that they've seen in nearly a century.

[kentuck]

10. There is no army to stop them.

It seems like Turkey, the Kurds, and Iraq would be discussing how they can each send troops in from three different directions to counter them? And surround them. Look for a surrender. I mean, how many battalions are we talking about here??

[onethatcares]

11. they're using the same

convoys that moved the WMDs out of Iraq prior to the initial invasion.

They are protected by a cloak of invisibility that allows them to move through the space/time continuum without being seen by
any one but Condi Rice and Dick the Impaler.

Sheeesh, what other reason could there be?

[arcane1]

12. Let's not forget this absurdity:

[onethatcares]

13. see, it's all perfectly logical

you just need to have a pair of x-ray specs and even Ray Charles can see what's going on.