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Posted on 03/08/2015 4:37:23 PM PDT by Nachum
The Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday defended the pace of the air war against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, warning that escalating bombing raids or sending in more American troops would be a mistake.
During a visit to a French aircraft carrier in the Gulf taking part in the air campaign, General Martin Dempsey appealed for "strategic patience" in the fight against the ISIS group in Iraq and Syria, according to AFP.
Expanding the air war could risk civilian casualties and play into the hands of ISIS propaganda, he said aboard the Charles de Gaulle.
"So we have a responsibility to be very precise in the use of air power. And that means that it takes time" to gather accurate intelligence on possible targets, Dempsey said, adding, "Carpet bombing through Iraq is not the answer."
The tempo of military operations also depended on the strength of the Iraqi army and the Baghdad government's willingness to reconcile with an alienated Sunni population, he said.
The conflict could be decided on the battlefield relatively quickly, but military operations were only part of a broader effort, said Dempsey.
"I do think it's going to require some strategic patience," he said, adding that "these underlying issues have to be resolved".
Dempsey spoke in the carrier's hangar alongside his French counterpart, General Pierre de Villiers, who said he shared the American general's view.
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I don’t like this guy. He strikes me as a desk riding cookie pusher
Can anyone here imagine George S. Patton ever uttering the words “strategic patience”?
No Dempsey, YOU are the mistake. Now run along and give Obama another b.job!!
My GAYDAR goes off the chart looking at him.
Strategic patience. An excuse to temporize and do nothing. I wondered what einstein dreamed up that phrase which we heard just last week or so from the Usurper.
“...n a shocking display of its military power, Boko Haram seized and controlled territory in the beleaguered northeastern states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa. *** In responding to the Islamist group, government security forces were also implicated in grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the treatment of Boko Haram suspects. *** Violence persisted, despite the imposition of a state of emergency in 2013 that was renewed in May. The conflict resulted in the death of over 2,500 civilians between January and August 2014, and the displacement of over 650,000 residents within Nigeria as well as more than 80,000 as refugees in neighboring countries...:”
http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/nigeria
Instead of doing less bombing, why don't we devote more resources to intelligence gathering so we can bomb them more?
No, but General George B. McClellan comes to mind.
No one’s suggesting “carpet bombing” and that he frames all airstrikes as “carpet bombing” sounds to me like his agenda really isn’t a concern for further radicalization of people that are already as extreme as they can get... so much as it could be he’s afraid of the political risks, such as a shootdown when we aren’t willing politically to put in the resources necessary to conduct a proper strike with backup and rescue teams able to go in on the ground.
Who exactly is out there fretting over the treatment of Boko Haram? Find them and we'll find the root of the expanding terrorist problem.
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ISIS can’t produce propoganda if they’re all immolated. Just saying.
Fry them with extreme prejudice.
Dempsey has been assimilated. I’m sure he and mike mullen are both deeply disappointed at their luck, that after carefully managing their careers for decades and managing to climb to the CJoS, a pussy like Barack Obama was in the Oval Office when they got there.
What Ivy League, Gender Studies, liberal douchebag dreamed that phrase up..?
The Dempsy Dumbster is off this planet. Bomb those sand coons to extinction
Someone should explain to Dempsey that if you are afraid of of playing into ISIS propaganda you are in fact then controlled BY ISIS.
He’s saying what his boss told him to say.
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