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State Dept: We’ve Been ‘Looking At’ a Long-Term Strategy Against ISIL For a Year
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 8/13/14 | Staff

Posted on 08/13/2014 6:45:59 PM PDT by Nachum

The State Department claimed Wednesday that they have been “looking at” developing a long-term strategy to fight ISIL in both Iraq and Syria for a year. The United States has stressed repeatedly that its current limited missions in Iraq against ISIL are not long-term solutions. “We are looking long-term at how we fight ISIL,” said State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. Asked by a reporter to clarify, Harf said, “We’ve been looking at that for quite some time. That’s not new.” “We’ve been looking at that for months and months, even before the latest offenses that started in June against Mosul – for, you

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KEYWORDS: dept; isil; isis; obamaisis; obamaislamist; secstatekerry; state; statedept; strategy
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And they have the emails to prove it!

...if only those hard drives hadn't crashed... or something.

1 posted on 08/13/2014 6:46:00 PM PDT by Nachum
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The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 08/13/2014 6:46:19 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

They shouldn’t look at a long term strategy. They should look at an extermination strategy.


3 posted on 08/13/2014 6:47:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Nachum

Well of course they have, that’s why 0bama chose to help arm them.


4 posted on 08/13/2014 6:48:25 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Nachum

In the long run we are all dead


5 posted on 08/13/2014 6:48:55 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Nachum

They need to appoint a few more members to the committee if they want to speed things up.


6 posted on 08/13/2014 6:49:08 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Nachum

Looking at a longtime strategy is not a longtime strategy unless you are an incompetent community organizer anti-American Marxist punk.


7 posted on 08/13/2014 6:49:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Nachum

“Don’t do stupid stuff.” Great plan! That doesn’t even work with your 16 year old kid who is borrowing the car.


8 posted on 08/13/2014 6:50:42 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: Nachum

And we should believe this because...?


9 posted on 08/13/2014 6:50:58 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Nachum

Maybe after all the Christians are killed they’ll finalize their plan


10 posted on 08/13/2014 6:50:59 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Nachum

And they’ll never find it with their head up their a$$.


11 posted on 08/13/2014 6:51:02 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: cripplecreek

>>They shouldn’t look at a long term strategy. They should look at an extermination strategy.

Agreed. All long-term strategies should have a mission statement that includes the words, “End Islam”. In bold! Anything else is only temporary.


12 posted on 08/13/2014 6:52:10 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: Nachum

Didnt they just say that the speed and success of ISIS just 3 months ago took all the US intel departments by complete surprise? Is there something goofy going on in DC?


13 posted on 08/13/2014 6:55:49 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are going to keep on with this bullshit until
millions of people are enslaved or dead.
Fools, the lot of them.


14 posted on 08/13/2014 6:57:09 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Nachum

these people can’t even lie well.


15 posted on 08/13/2014 7:01:03 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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State Dept: We’ve Been ‘Looking At’ a Long-Term 18 Hole Strategy For a Year

there fixed it


16 posted on 08/13/2014 7:01:06 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits n firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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"The State Department claimed Wednesday that they have been “looking at” developing a long-term strategy to fight ISIL in both Iraq and Syria for a year."

Whew! That's a relief. I was worried that no one was looking at developing any strategy.

The next step is to consider beginning a dialog regarding the possibility of holding a meeting to begin to discuss the development of a long-term strategy.

17 posted on 08/13/2014 7:09:47 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Nachum

Marie Harf: Please don’t lie to me, I am tired of being lied to.
STOP; if your lips are moving, your lieing.
Just liker your boss; OBASTARD, if there is air passing by your vocal chords you are lieing!


18 posted on 08/13/2014 7:12:17 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Nachum

They narrowed it down to quaking in their booties, or CINC taking another vacation.


19 posted on 08/13/2014 7:13:41 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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To: Nachum

With John Kerry-Heinz at the helm it will be a “never mind” moment before his mind kicks into 2nd gear.


20 posted on 08/13/2014 7:18:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (His Arrogance would love to replace John Kerry-Heinz but all the trained monkeys turned him down.)
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