Knock boots? Nuh uh, not gonna do it Liz. Wouldn't be prudent.
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.”
John Kerry is an idiot serving a demonic president.
Knock boots? Nuh uh, not gonna do it Liz. Wouldn't be prudent.
I agree with all of what you said. PLUS, I think that if we were killing off ISIS by the thousands (which we COULD do), they would not be so popular for recruiting purposes.
They just need jobs. :-)
Wait a minute...isn’t the regime asking for war powers to fight ISIS via congress?
“In other words, Kerry wants to give Iraq to Iran.
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.””
That’s the thing no one seems to be seeing. ISIS became unpopular in the administration when it started threatening Iran. To all intents and purposes, America is serving as the air wing of the Iranian republic in Iranian soldiers leading the conquest of Iraq.
Anytime the US wants to go to war, the administration starts publicizing atrocities. I would suggest that the Facebook wave of atrocities by ISIS was a very successful PR campaign by the administration to have the US public support armed intervention in the ME for the purpose of establishing Iranian hegemony over the entire central middle east.
“I asked on another thread, what part does Iraq play in Imam Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran? “
A very good question. One I’ve been asking myself.
Some people will actually believe that. The real reason is 0 loves them and doesn’t want to hurt them.
We should be sending in troops effective YESTERDAY. But we should not send in troops unless and until we are willing to openly — and without apology or equivocation — send them to fight IN THE NAME OF JESUS and in defense of Christianity.
This is a HOLY WAR and we need to acknowledge it as such. If we do that, then we cannot lose.
Poor Adolph Hitler and the Nazi’s. If only Obama and Kerry would have been in power, they would have succeeded in the Holocaust and controlled all of Europe.
Kerry was a traitor in 1971, actually meeting with NVA representatives in Paris and trying to act as a go-between in the peace talks, while he was yet an officer in the USNR.
He also aided and abetted the enemy on 1971 with that infamous appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wherein he slimed all who wore the uniform in the Vietnam War.
John Fraud Kerry can go to Hell.
Kerry: “I can beat you up”.
ISIS: “Oh, yeah? Go ahead, then.”
Kerry: “My mom told me not to.”
"...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..."Congress to Kerry: Not gonna ask your permission.
Then why is the regime asking for full war powers to defeat isis?
http://www.newsmax.com/PrintTemplate.aspx/?nodeid=629558
Just imagine if we had a Secretary of State saying that about Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan 75 years ago. What would the world look like today?
The capacity to defeat ISIS? Given the DoD’s perverted obsession with transgenderism and “sexual assault,” that’s more doubtful by the day.
Kerry was indeed a traitor in 1971. However, I view him more as a traitorous doofus now rather than a Machiavellian type, like Obama/ValJar. This isn’t a vote “for” JF’nK by any means. He would have been a huge disaster as Prez in 2004.
Because if that were passed, Zero would issue an executive order redefining who and what ISIS is, and send out paramilitaries and other thugs to round up police chiefs, police officers, conservatives in media, and members of the NRA etc.
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