Posted on 03/11/2015 10:47:29 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Secretary of State John Kerry told members of Congress Wednesday that “we have the capacity” to “knock out ISIL,” but “we’re not going to get suckered into that.”
“The enduring transformation that has to take place here is not going to take place if the United States just comes in and were to knock out ISIL and that’s it, go away. Not gonna happen,” Kerry said during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a hearing about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
“We could do that, actually. We have that capacity, but we’re not asking to do that, nor are they [other Middle Eastern countries] asking us to do that, because I think they understand that the implications of that would be actually to aid in the recruitment to create a bigger problem than we face today,” he continued.
Kerry was responding to questions from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who expressed concern that a large-scale ground combat initiative by the United States could effectively pit the West against the Islamic State and end up bolstering the terrorist group’s recruiting efforts. At the time, the committee was considering President Obama’s request for authorization to use military force against the Islamic State.
“I’m looking for metrics in terms of, if we all agree with the proposition of this needs to be a region policing itself with the assistance of the United States, tell me what that means in terms of what ground troop levels could be appropriate or inappropriate,” Kaine said, pointing out that the United States is responsible for 80 percent of the 2,800 airstrikes conducted so far against the Islamic State.
“The airstrikes is not the region with the United States helping out a little bit. We’ve done 80 percent of the airstrikes. The airstrikes is U.S.,” Kaine continued.
“This has got to be the region’s fight against its own terrorism, and if they’re willing to be all-in, then we should help, but if it gets to the point where we have to contemplate a significant number of ground troops, it almost means that it’s been lost from the beginning if the region won’t weigh in to battle their own terrorist threat,” Kaine said.
“There’s sort of no amount of ground troops we could put in Iraq or Syria to win the battles there. We can keep Americans safe here, but we can’t create a recruiting bonanza for ISIL,” he added.
“If it’s just us, that’s how they grow, and that’s what they want, and we’re not getting suckered into that,” Kerry said in his response.
Kerry also hailed the coalition of other Middle Eastern countries allied against the Islamic State, saying that “the best thing that can happen here is in fact what’s happening now.”
” the implications of that would be actually to aid in the recruitment to create a bigger problem than we face today,” he continued.
Translation: If the enemy sends reinforcements we’re going to throw in the towel.
Unreal.
He feels morally obligated to allow murder, torture, large scale upheaval and other Hell-on-Earth to continue just so social evolution can occur naturally.
I can’t believe a traitor is Secretary of state. Actually I can considering who is POTUS. God knows or the Devils knows what these two slimebuckets are doing behind everyones back.
The most incredible statement ever made by an American Secretary of State is, “the best thing that can happen here (Iraq) is in fact what’s happening now.”
Welcome to foreign policy, Obama style
Good grief. I used to think Kerry was just a traitor, and now I think he’s crazy, to boot.
He and his boss actually believe they are triangulating, and that Iran will defeat ISIS and become the new big player in the ME. I’m not sure how that’s going to help Barry and Kerry, but I think that’s what they want. Minimize US power and influence, and give it to Iran.
The worse the islamoNazi terrorist gang, the more O and jfk support ( arm, fund, defend, promote) it.
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Kerry is looking for metrics; ISIS is looking for victory and a caliphate.
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The US has the spy capacity to do something useful. Instead of spying on its own citizens how about working with countries to stop people from going to Syria to ISIS? We could stop the "regime change stuff that's caused previously unimaginable chaos and death. We could use our abilities to protect Christians and other minorities and protect heritage sites. Those kinds of things would win the US allies in the court of world opinion.
This administration has no morals. And the DC crowd by not doing something to stop ISIS and to stop Obama's destruction of civilization is part of the problem.
The man is a blithering idiot.
Hey Ketchup Boi, Hillary, and your boss turned the region upside down and you expect them to now fight off ISIS?
Thankfully, Eqypt rejected the Obama & Hillary supported muslim brotherhood puppet, but Libya is now one big ISIS training state!
I asked on another thread, what part does Iraq play in Imam Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran?
Having said that, it's probably a good idea to fight these people through proxies. It's not our job to be military welfare provider to the world. Better 10 dead Iraqis than 1 dead American. Supply them with whatever air support they need, but let them fight the high-casualty ground engagements.
This always has been about surrendering the US to Islam.
Crucifying innkcent Christians, incinerating captured people in cages, and all sorts of mass slaughters in cities and towns — all just fine with obama kerry and conrades. We won’t get “suckered” into doing anything decent or changing our support, funding, ATMs supplies for the worst islsmonazi terrorists we can find (muslim brothers. Hamas. Palestinians. AlQuaida. Iran! Hezbellah. Turkey’s new islamofascist regime. Et etc Etc). Comment: no wonder decent people all over the world despise USA now)
Does anyone else watch this feed as a source? I use it as sort of an early-warning radar, for stuff to follow up on to determine veracity, so I don’t accept everything that pops up there at face value, of course:
https://twitter.com/NewsOnTheMin
That noted, there’s an item that reads:
“White House Cannot Confirm Reports on #US Advisors Allegedly Aiding #ISIL http: //bit.ly/1ESEJgn @SputnikInt”
‘US Advisors *aiding* ISIL? What?
I believe the real traitor is Obama. Kerry is a self-serving fool and a tool.
Genghis Khan has nothing on Kerry’s evil of promoting
worldwide rapine, beheading, crucifixion and slavery.
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