This is very intriguing!

If this is true:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistani-Taliban-declare-allegiance-to-Islamic-State-and-global-jihad/articleshow/44345966.cms

where do the Afghan Taliban stand.

Given that the Pakistan Taliban is an offspring of the Afghan Taliban, where does mother really stand. It was this mother that nurtured Osama ben Laden and al Qaeda. Interestingly IS is an offspring of al Qaeda.

I was only recently informed that the US has been battling IS since 2003. If this is true, it does not speak well of the military strategy of the US in its aim to defeat IS.

It is also necessary now to ask whether it is sound logic for the US under President Obama to leave Afghanistan? Today he is battling IS in norther Iraq and Syria. Yet in Afghanistan he has left it to its fate guarded by its army that it is training with the help of NATO and Canada.

We know that the US was and is also training the Iraq army. This army showed its training, mettle and steel in combat when IS forces confronted it. The Iraq army fled.

This does not speak well to the quality of US military training, does it?

Do you get the faint tinge of a smell that the US is in a bad mess in the Middle East.

If IS wins in Syria it will join hands with Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah of Lebanon. When that happens, they will be in the northern borders of Israel. America must prevent this at all cost. There is no US president that will ever allow this to happen.

When every precision guided missile probably cost 5 to 10 times that of Rolls Royce, you can see the mounting cost to the US, UK, France, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The latter four nations will have to pay for the missiles they dispense on IS as they will have to buy them from the US. .

However, the place really to buy these missiles is Russia or China or Japan or North Korea. The purchaser will get the best bang for the buck.

If in 5 years the US and its allies have not emerged victorious in the field then we know that the victor will be IS. So, let us revisit this matter in 2019/2020 - if I am still alive then by the grace of God..