Are we making a serious attempt to deny income to ISIL?
They use that income to produce slick recruiting videos, pay their jihadists, purchase supplies, and fund terror around the world. With enough funding that terror will ultimately evolve from guns and bombs to chemical, biological, and possibly nuclear weapons. Money is a key ingredient. If we fail to act, time is on their side.
The good news is that we could eliminate at least half of ISIL’s revenue by simply stopping th…eir sale of petroleum. In a highly publicized raid following Putin’s 
revelation that the U.S. was doing nothing to attack the oil infrastructure, our airplanes took out a number of empty tankers. Rather than ask questions about why we have had no such subsequent attacks, our news has devoted hundreds of hours to the latest outrageous comments by Trump. Questions about our rules of engagement and what we are doing to financially strangle a massive terrorist organization seem to not be important.
Administration sources have explained our unwillingness to previously target tankers both as considering those tankers to be civilian infrastructure and therefor off limits and as not wanting to cause pollution. Bear in mind that we willingly sell coal to China, where it can be used as a polluting cheap source of energy that allows China to manufacture products so inexpensively that we cannot compete. That kind of pollution is apparently ok, but blowing up oil tankers that fund terrorism is not. Meanwhile, the Russians appear to be willing to attack convoys that have been unmolested by us as we continue to hamstring our military and continue our preoccupation with political correctness.
***Gary A. Howie MSc, PhD*** is a business owner/rancher and a Life & Liberty News contributor
