ISIS claims Ramadi, but they've done this before

, 2015 by MOTHAX

Hard to see any upside to this at all, except that the capture of Ramadi may be temporary, as this CNN report makes clear:

Im at a loss to explain how this is happening, but quite clearly we aren't doing as well as the military seems to be reporting.  If we have air assets on hand, and these ISIS guys have to cross deserts to get where they are going, it seems fairly simple.  But on the heels of bagging the ISISFINANCE guy, some better news would have been awesome.  

Instead we get this:

BAGHDAD — The last Iraqi security forces fled Ramadi on Sunday, as the city fell completely to the militants of the Islamic State, who ransacked the provincial military headquarters, seizing a large store of weapons, and killed people loyal to the government, according to security officials and tribal leaders.

The fall of Ramadi, despite intensified American airstrikes in recent weeks in a bid toSAVE the city, represented the biggest victory so far this year for the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate, or Islamic state, in the vast areas of Syria and Iraq that it controls. The defeat also laid bare the failed strategy of the Iraqi government, which had announced last month a new offensive to retake Anbar Province, a large desert region in the west of which Ramadi is the capital.

“The city has fallen,” said Muhannad Haimour, the spokesman for Anbar’s governor. Mr. Haimour said that at least 500 civilians and security personnel had been killed over the last two days in and around Ramadi, either from fighting or executions. Among the dead, he said, was the 3-year-old daughter of a soldier.