Asked why the U.S. had waited so long to hit fuel trucks, which are highly vulnerable and easily targeted by air, Davis said the U.S.-led coalition has been mindful of civilian casualties and sought to limit damage to Syria’s oil resources to preserve them for future generations.
“We’re balancing that with the fact that this revenue is presenting a clear and present threat to Syrians today, in that it’s being converted into funds which are being used for military equipment, which is being used to kill innocent civilians,” Davis said.
Army Col. Steve Warren, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said last week that the U.S. has learned over time that the militants were quickly replacing or repairing damage to oil distribution centers and other infrastructure. In many cases, he said, within days of an airstrike the targeted piece of oil infrastructure was up and running again.
“We don’t want to completely and utterly destroy these facilities to where they’re irreparable,” Warren said. “So what we’ve done is we’ve used very precise targeting, a very detailed analysis to strike certain parts of these facilities that will cause them to shut down for an extended period of time.”
As Coulter opined, “That event in Paris elected Trump president.”
Rusiian President Trump before elected President of the US
SOME people have discernment and foresight
Amazing isn’t it? And that load of RINO A-Holes at the FOX biz debate laughed when Trump said to go after the oil.
Now that we are cutting off Jihadi oil production, it would be a prudent strategy to build the Keystone pipeline. But our Pariah in Chief will have nothing to do with what is prudent for America,
Oh yes...’money’ the international, UNIVERSAL language!!
So is China.
Trump has said nothing original and a lot of what he has said is not conservative at all.
Going after the oil has been a topic for over a year now.