Posted on 09/05/2014 8:42:12 AM PDT by shove_it
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday said a growing international coalition was ready and able to defeat the group calling itself the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) within three years. "We're convinced that in the days ahead we have the ability to destroy ISIL," Kerry said Friday in Wales, where he was attending a NATO summit along with U.S. President Barack Obama. "It may take a year, it may take two years, it may take three years. But we’re determined it has to happen."
Kerry's remarks came at the top of a meeting to build an anti-ISIS coalition among NATO allies. The meeting was co-chaired by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and the U.K.'s foreign and defense secretaries, and it included top diplomats from a variety of NATO members.
Kerry adopted a tone far beyond the caution U.S. officials had exhibited over the past week. He said there was "no contain policy" for confronting ISIS, stating equivocally that the U.S. believed the group must be destroyed through the work of an international coalition.
The military strategy toward accomplishing that, he said, would include a mix of blasting the Sunni extremist group from the air while supporting allies on the ground in Iraq and Syria.
"There is no contain policy for ISIL. They’re an ambitious, avowed genocidal, territorial-grabbing, Caliphate-desiring, quasi state within a regular army," Kerry said. "And leaving them in some capacity intact anywhere would leave a cancer in place that will ultimately come back to haunt us. So there is no issue in our minds about our determination to build this coalition, go after this."
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But only if the American sheeple have the gumption to vote out the sorry ilk like Kerry and his boss.
Let's all catch up and see where we are at in 36 months, Jackass.
Why the long face, Mr. Secretary?
When will ISIS wannabe Hasan be ended?
That depends on what the meaning of ISIS is...
-No Worries-
Why so long?
After three years... Kerry will say... I believed it will be three years before I believed it would be longer than that...
The office of the SOS has become a clown's parade ever since hillary!
Even Albright had her moments.
I bet in 2 years they will fly a isis flag for a state dinner at the whitehouse.
And all the ice was suppose to be melted by now... raising sea levels and inundating American cities.
Remember that one?
Kerry’s a puffed-up liberal elite gullible fool. Someone get the hook - get him off the stage.
But the frequent flyer miles are worth it!
John, why don’t you and Hanoi Jane make a trip over to the enemy and stay there.
So why wouldn't I feel a confident sigh of relief when he tells us that ISIS will be destroyed in three years?
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