Jordan is apparently increasing its participation in the coalition bombings of ISIL in Syria as revenge for the horrendous burning alive of the captured Jordanian pilot. Up to now, ISIL has not focused its attention on Jordan, preferring to concentrate on exterminating helpless religious minorities and raping 13 year old girls and such. But this most probably will now change. Can little Jordan handle what is to come? They are a tiny country with no natural resources and already home to several million refugees from multiple regional conflicts. Some of those long term refugees may feel life under ISIL offers a better future than the ones they currently face. Can the monarchy survive? Can their relatively small military repel a full-on, sustained ISIL attack? I would expect the mega car bombings to begin soon, targeting the royal family and the military leaders. Civilians won't be spared either.

If Jordan as we know it collapses, things suddenly go from bleak to utterly disastrous. It's difficult to foresee any scenario where this situation ends well. I pray I'm wrong.

I visited Jordan back in the 90s and enjoyed it - sure wouldn't be thinking of going just now though.

dont think its a "tiny country" ? also don't think, they have no real army, nor that they are poor there.

when they were attacked, Israel/US would support them, imo.

You got to love a country were the King rides a Harley. IS will keep pissing people off and eventually most will be killed like the dirty dogs they are, but a core will go underground and use the coward tactics that Islamofascists have been using. (and be funded by the Saudi's and Iran) Wake up world, its a HOLY WAR, and we are losing.

potty wrote:dont think its a "tiny country" ? also don't think, they have no real army, nor that they are poor there.

when they were attacked, Israel/US would support them, imo.

Jordan is 111th on the list of countries by land area. Maybe not exactly tiny like I wrote, but it's not very big either.

not poor there?

Jordan GDP - per capita (PPP): $6,100 (2013 est.)

http://www.indexmundi.com/jordan/gdp_pe ... pp%29.html

You think Israel and the US are going to put ground troops into Jordan? God I hope not, although it is being discussed often in the news. That would be insane. ISIS would get a million new recruits overnight to fight the "Jews and Crusaders" on Muslim land. The American people should have had it with overseas military adventurism. It took over a decade to crawl out of Iraq and Afghanistan with nothing to show for it. Plus, they can't afford it.

Jordan has had special security arrangements with the U.S. for decades and has a strong treaty and very stable boarder with Israel. Jordanian troops regularly train in the U.S. with their U.S. counterparts, and Jordanian, Israeli and U.S. intelligence are in regular, if not well publicized, communication and cooperation. Jordanian airstrikes in Syria and Iraq are coordinated with coalition (i.e. U.S.) military command. What IS has done against Jordan is turning the Jordanian people against them (as well as even some of the most fundamental Muslim clerics) just as the Jordanian people turned against Al-Queda after the 2005 hotel bombings which killed a lot of Jordanians at a wedding party. Jordan may not have conventionally defensible boarders but they are masters of diplomacy and alliances. Jordan, even though it is a small country is a kingpin of the middle east. It is one of the few countries in which its leader can come to the U.S. and have a private conference with the U.S. President (no matter who they are at the time), at any time they want. A small country, but a big power. They will only come out of this stronger and more united.

Who let ISIS into Sryia back in late 2011 early 2012?

To turn a blind eye on your boarder policy with Saudi and open the flood gate to poor into Syria is just sweet justice to me.

Fuck em. Keep on waving the middle finger to the world Assad and the Syrian people. My thoughts are with you everyday.

Past time for the US government (and everyone else) to investigate the Saudi connection to radical Islam. Read the book El Saud to get a perspective on how the Brits drew up the borders and put the Saudi tribe in power. On one hand the Saudi royals make nice to America and on the other hand they finance radical Islam and radical Wahhabism. A balancing act that one day will come back and bite the Saudi royals in the butt.

If there is a supreme being, he/she has a real warped sense of humor as he/she gave the as*holes in the world most of the oil. The Saudi's and the Texans.