claim they were the ones who brought down that russian airliner with 224 people onboard. isis says they did it. yes. they did bring down a russian airliner, but they also struck at president sisi in egypt because that was a strategic blow against egypt s economy. it cuts off their tourism dollar flow. so what is the real goal of isis right now? they ve got their own problems in sinjar as we just heard from nick paton walsh. they ve got a battle under there with the peshmerga, the kurdish fighters, u.s. special operations forces they re on the ground helping coordinate u.s.-led air strikes against isis. but isis is moving in all sorts of directions even as they fight goes on. that s right. isis is consolidating its grip on the territories it has. it s going to try to prove its ability to hold sinjar, i would presume. it s working against the egyptians in sinai. it s also working against the egyptians through its forces in libya. and so this is a cancer on the
i think the op iks are really off. hopefully the week will correct as the dollar flow that need to be out there in the public. i agree with you, the optics don t look good. i was just thinking, down the road, one of the states that got remarked is i can see a scenario you already have, the gop house could be at odds with one of theirs prized governors meaning christie. you have, michael, republicans in missouri who feel like the money that s going to go to irene might come from efforts to with of disaster in joplin and elsewhere. i don t think the republicans over all are in a good spot right now. i don t think the president is either. after the debt ceiling, and numbers went down for each side and republicans looked like they were willing to blow things up
money will come from or how we re going to pay for it. that s not what people want to hear when they ve just lost their home or the life of a loved one. i think the op iks are really off. hopefully the week will correct as the dollar flow that need to be out there in the public. i agree with you, the optics don t look good. i was just thinking, down the road, one of the states that got remarked is i can see a scenario you already have, the gop house could be at odds with one of theirs prized governors meaning christie. you have, michael, republicans in missouri who feel like the money that s going to go to irene might come from efforts to with of disaster in joplin and elsewhere. i don t think the republicans over all are in a good spot