Posted on 05/07/2016 8:05:17 AM PDT by darkwing104
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, speaking at a discussion with all the service chiefs before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, told the crowd that ISIS “looked an awful lot like something much more than a terrorist group.”
August 2014, the United States looked at ISIS only as a terrorist group and developed a military strategy to take on ISIS as a terrorist group. The Obama Regime--or its Ghost writer Ben Rhodes--mistakenly called ISIS the JV squad, ignoring the possibility that the group was developing an infrastructure and a government. Obama advisors also failed to consider the determination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to create a Caliphate for hardline Islamists. Indeed the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was so hardline that it was disavowed by al-Qaida.
Initial intelligence collection efforts focused on ISIS as a simple group of terrorists, missing the fact that the Islamic State was developing infrastructure and command and control over its territory. It’s likely that the group benefited from the Former Iraqi Sunni Government and military officers ousted from power.
General Welsh pointed out: “They had infrastructure. They had training infrastructure, recruiting infrastructure, financial infrastructure, governance infrastructure. They had what looked like fielded military forces. And they had this terrorist component” This forced the Air Force to change its operation from a tactical interdiction of terrorist operatives to a strategic operation with a purpose to destroy the infrastructure of the Islamic State. The wild card will consist of terrorist sleeper cells, located around the world and probably getting orders via the internet or from couriers posing as refugees or other nationalities who are sneaking into target countries.
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looks “an awful lot like something much more than a terrorist group.”
So does the Saudi Royal family, but that doesn’t change what they truly are.
If such a combined infrastructure exists, existed, etc. then it damned well could be localized, identified and targeted. Nukes. Enough nukes to make them quit.
“Drones aren’t going to win this war. “
To liberals war is uncouth. It’s something that evil Republicans engage in. But with drones liberals can pretend that they aren’t fighting a war. It’s antiseptic, remote and almost never mentioned by their pocket-presstitutes. With drones they can claim to be stopping the enemy without actually damaging the enemy, which, as we know, doesn’t help win wars. (/s)
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They are an Obama think tank of local community organizers?
Whatever ISIS has they have because Bozo Obama stood there watching them grow after creating the vacuum into which they grew.
The JV team...
Now
If only we would recognize Islam as more than a religion.
I heard one of trump folks on TV yesterday equating the strategy we need to use to defeat ISIS as being the same as what we needed to do to defeat Nazism or Communism. Maybe a light bulb has finally gone on in the leadership of this country.
ISIS is just doing what their belief system demands. That’s why Islam and its followers need to be eliminated, totally, within the borders of America, and destroyed down to the ground wherever else in the world they harm Americans.
A political general who touts the White Hut lie.
All the good generals and admirals have been retired. Hopefully, President Trump will call them back and even find a true Conservative one to run with him on the ticket.
I’m hoping that we demand nations actively get rid of terrorists within their borders. If the nation (ex. Saudi Arabia) will not purify itself, then we should hurt that nation as much as possible. We stop the pain when they get their stuff together and remove terrorism from their land.
It’s hard for a country like the USA to fight terrorists hiding in a foreign country. It’s easier for us to fight the government of the foreign country. And when I say “fight” I mean economic and political efforts, not “boots on the ground”. Local governments can more successfully fight local terrorists — they just need us to give them the incentive.
Valerie’s man child says they’re the “JV Team”, and perhaps he means it....considering HIMSELF as a member of the Varsity....
Oh, they’re running ice cream trucks for the kiddies now?
Good thing bammy is leaving office in 2017 or he’d recognize Islamic state as a valid country.
TAC Nukes would do the job as would SADM.
We should have nuked Abbottobad for harboring Bin Laden, too.
Obama, the Coach of the JV Team ISIS.
Hillary, the Grandmother of ISIS.
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