Posted on 02/21/2015 5:16:24 AM PST by Mean Daddy
The United States and its allies have the ability to destroy the Islamic State militants, and can do so without putting U.S. troops on the ground, Rep. Brad Ashford said Friday after returning from the Middle East.
The Omaha Democrat said he was encouraged by what he learned on a weeklong trip to the region that included visits with top U.S. military leaders and diplomats, the presidents of Afghanistan and Iraq and the king of Jordan. Ashford said he was assured by the foreign leaders that while they need the support of U.S. airstrikes, military advisers and trainers, they dont need American ground troops.
They can fight this fight themselves, he said. They can win this battle on the ground as long as they get the support they need.
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He might as well switch parties now.
Geeze. Then this:
Ashford said leaders he spoke with recognized that in the long-term, the Middle East needs economic development, more secular education and other advancements so that young people growing up in poverty are no longer attracted to the militants message.
Jobs! That's the answer! More StopNGo, Seven-Eleven, gas stations, Dollar-Mania......
Damned stupid liberals.
He was a Republican prior to his election to Congress (he just couldn’t get nominated as one), so he switched to Dem.
He’s just trying to show he’s not as stupid as a Harf while at the same time actually remaining as stupid as a Harf.
Every liberal and every demorat alive is as stupid as a Harf.
They Harf to be. It goes with the mindset.
BTW, I wonder how many Jordanian resources are being put into the Harfian idea of a Jihadi Jobs Program.
Harfwits support Jihadi Jobs programs.
Harf the time, even some conservatives earn the title of harfwit. They can’t harf it.
I think I just harfed myself. lol
Here on FR we should have a new hierarchy of alerts:
Medium level alert: Barf Alert
High level alert: MegaBarf Alert
Maximum alert: Harf Alert
That’s GOOD! You da man!
:)
Give me a Harf, Vasili. One Harf only, please.
Ashford is just reflecting Obama's WH policy. NO GROUND TROOPS, PERIOD. Obama will give this a$$hole high praise for this "type of thinking." Does anyone believe this BS?
Why would he be condemned for what he said? He is parroting the party line, i.e., no ground troops.
Kill them and bring them down to their normal size by removing their heads. They aren’t seven foot tall as they are portrayed in their videos.
Oh, one of those.
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