"Say what?"
Posted on 07/26/2014 7:47:19 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
(Reuters) - A top Pentagon intelligence official warned on Saturday that the destruction of Hamas would only lead to something more dangerous taking its place, as he offered a grim portrait of a period of enduring regional conflict.
The remarks by Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, the outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, came as Israeli ministers signaled that a comprehensive deal to end the 20-day-old conflict in the Gaza Strip appeared remote.
At least 1,050 Gazans - mostly civilians - have been killed, and 42 Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have died.
Flynn disparaged Hamas for exhausting finite resources and know-how to build tunnels that have helped them inflict record casualties on Israelis. Still, he suggested that destroying Hamas was not the answer.
"If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse," Flynn said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
"A worse threat that would come into the sort of ecosystem there … something like ISIS," he added, referring to the Islamic State, which last month declared an "Islamic caliphate" in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.
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Yeah, if we destroy the Nazis the communists will take over.
Good point. The Iraqi Gov’t was not blindly opposed to us being in Iraq: They were opposed to us being there & causing irritation and political problems for the gov’t, but not in sufficient capacity to crush troublemakers or reduce the need for Iraqi cooperation with Iran.
The Obama Administration has rid itself of any patriots, both in the various unelected bureaucracies and the leadership of the military forces.
This administration is nothing but an overgrown bunch of pansies looking for their paychecks and pensions. They don’t seem to care a bit for what has been happening to this country for the past half dozen years, while Obama and his handlers have done massive damage to the US.
Gee... it’s a good thing we didn’t have that attitude towards Hitler and Nazi Germany.
“At least 1,050 Gazans - mostly civilians”
Talking points the media keeps repeating.
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Right. ...The Hammas and other muslim terriorist groups are
ALL civilians. They don’t wear unique uniforms to define them as a military force linked to a country in a war.
Blow them all to hell!
Logic is not the “language” of the “progressive”...
You’re standing facing a coiled rattlesnake tjat is rattling frantically. Some jackass standing behind you says if you shoot him something worse will come out. What do you do? I know what I would do. I would dispatch the snake. What could be worse than a bunch of mindless idiots firing rockets at you? Blow the bastards away and deal with whatever comes afterwards.
Nothing is worse than Hamas, ISIS is the SAME.
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