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SECDEF MATTIS: WORKING TOWARD MERCILESS ANNIHILATION OF ISIS
unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com ^ | 20MAY17 | Faye Higbee

Posted on 05/22/2017 7:36:02 PM PDT by vannrox

SecDef Mattis: Working Toward Merciless Annihilation of ISIS

SecDef Mattis: Working Toward Merciless Annihilation of ISIS

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Posted May 20, 2017

People have asked about the Pentagon’s strategy for defeating ISIS. On Friday, SecDef Mattis responded: “merciless annihilation.” (Which is totally a Mattis response.) The Pentagon is looking to stop ISIS fighters from scattering like cockroaches back to other countries after they lose their caliphate. He stood shoulder to shoulder with General Joseph Dunford, and Presidential Envoy to the ISIS Coalition Brett McGurk to explain the strategy to the Pentagon Press Corps.

“The foreign fighters are the strategic threat should they return home to Tunis, to Kuala Lumpur, to Paris, to Detroit. Wherever. By taking the time to deconflict, to surround and then attack, we carry out the annihilation campaign so we don’t simply transplant this problem from one location to another.” James Mattis

President Trump reviewed the Pentagon report that was created after the DOD was ordered to complete a review of Obama’s previous strategy. Two things changed, according to Mattis: Trump delegated authority to the “right level to aggressively and in a timely manner move against enemy vulnerabilities.” The second thing was changing the tactical method from an “attrition fight” which simply shoved ISIS out of areas, to surrounding and destroying them.

Transplanting trouble

One of the difficulties with the attacks against ISIS has been if they escape and disperse into the rest of the world after the loss of territory. Returnees who attempt to go back to their country of origin and continue the fight are concerning, lest they manage to spur the formation of jihad networks in those countries and carry out attacks.

Those who are classed as “operational” jihadis are extremely dangerous. These are the ones who are dispatched back to their countries, or to new ones, and conduct attacks, whether as a group or the lone wolf style based on orders from the remnants of ISIS.

Then there are the jihadis who became disillusioned with ISIS, but still support the Caliphate and want to mentor young people in the ways of radical Islam. There are some disaffected jihadis as well, those who cannot return to their original countries.

That merciless annihilation

When Mattis was asked if the US will stay indefinitely in Syria, he said, “I’m not willing to sign up for that. We’re there to drive ISIS to its knees. … There’s got to be a political solution to the larger issues there. It’s not going to be U.S. troops at the point of a gun making that happen.”

The issues of stabilizing regions that have been ‘liberated’ and taking down the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria are formidable obstacles that are being addressed.

But if anyone can come up with a plan to drive ISIS to its knees, it’s General James Mattis.

“Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.” Gen. James Mattis before he became SecDef

 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: isis; mattis; trump; war
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RIGHT ON!
1 posted on 05/22/2017 7:36:02 PM PDT by vannrox
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Bump


2 posted on 05/22/2017 7:41:59 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: vannrox

Take no prisoners and I’ll believe it.


3 posted on 05/22/2017 7:42:14 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: vannrox

They only respect power.


4 posted on 05/22/2017 7:42:28 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: vannrox

Nuke ‘em ‘til they glow.


5 posted on 05/22/2017 7:43:40 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: vannrox
"“Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.” Gen. James Mattis before he became SecDef"

Sounds like the 'Rats need to be surrounded and annihilated...

6 posted on 05/22/2017 7:44:27 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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I love that plan. Apparently so does Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt.


7 posted on 05/22/2017 7:44:28 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: vannrox
If Trump doesn't run again I hope Mattis does !

Mad Dog 2020

8 posted on 05/22/2017 7:44:47 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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Nuke them.

Kill every last one of them.


9 posted on 05/22/2017 7:48:52 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: Newbomb Turk

McCain’s creation


10 posted on 05/22/2017 7:50:01 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: vannrox

Sec. Mattis, please consider having Congress sign out Letters of Marque and Reprisal.

Old farts like me with a lot of fight left in them would love a chance to rain private security company death down on those scumbags...

It’s worked before.

Regards,

A Marine.


11 posted on 05/22/2017 7:50:33 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Jet Jaguar

This is a good thing....right?


12 posted on 05/22/2017 7:52:10 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (proawaki)
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To: Carl Vehse

And shoot’em in the dark!


13 posted on 05/22/2017 7:57:13 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Newbomb Turk

I see what you did there.


14 posted on 05/22/2017 7:58:22 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: Dead Corpse

SEMPER FI!!!!
This old man can still count the pine cones on a tree at 500 meters.


15 posted on 05/22/2017 7:59:48 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: vannrox

Now that Mr Twinkie is out of the WH, maybe we can dump the PC-ness and let the pros handle the wars. Politicians have killed more soldiers with their “surgical” wars than would have died had we let the generals do their job. War is messy no matter how you fight it. Get it over with as quickly as you can.


16 posted on 05/22/2017 8:03:04 PM PDT by econjack
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Does this include a Berlin 1945 style encirclement and destruction, with all surviving enemy penned up for 6 months as we weed through them one by one. And then we will have decades of hunting down the SOBs who go back to normal life?

These guys met the Nazi behavior standard in every way.

It will be yet another epic failure in the middle east if we allow them to scatter back to their homes in Europe.


17 posted on 05/22/2017 8:04:12 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: 5th MEB

Oh-rah!


18 posted on 05/22/2017 8:04:44 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Parley Baer

Maybe the Saudis will stop funding ISIS?


19 posted on 05/22/2017 8:06:58 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: econjack
"War is messy no matter how you fight it. Get it over with as quickly as you can."

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." - William Tecumseh Sherman.

20 posted on 05/22/2017 8:13:16 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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