"Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana
Posted on 11/15/2015 9:11:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says the U.S. strategy toward the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS) “is not working.â€
Michael Morell said recent attacks by the terrorist group in Paris and on a Russian passenger plane show it’s time for the U.S. to reconsider its strategy.
“I think it’s now crystal clear to us that our strategy, our policy vis-à -vis ISIS is not working, and it’s time to look at something else,†Morell said on CBS’s “Face the Nation†on Sunday.
He said the U.S. may need to rethink its opposition to Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
“You know, clearly he’s part of the problem, but he may also be part of the solution, right?†Morell said. “An agreement where he stays around for a while and the Syrian army, supported by the coalition, takes on ISIS may be the best result here.â€
He said the U.S. needs to take seriously the sophisticated attacks ISIS has proven capable of carrying out.
“You’ve got a large number of operatives. They have to get explosives. They have to get weapons. They have to communicate among themselves and communicate back to Iraq and Syria,†Morell said. “This is a level of sophistication that we have not seen since the London bombings in 2005.â€
What strategy?
Ya think?
We have a strategy?
Wow, that man, he be a genius.
“What strategy? Tell me what the strategy is and I’ll tell you if it’s working. That’s the problem. They have a strategy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vApBZlaePec
This is the same guy who lied for Hillary and Benghazi.
Well ‘DUH’ no crap....when did this idiot just wake up?
Americans are paying attention now, thank goodness, so what rock has this guy been under?
"Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana
This gentleman is “Captain Obvious.”
This was far more sophisticated than the London bombing. This looks more like the seizure of the Grand Mosque in 1979 or the Nord Ost seizure in Moscow.
A NSS moment.
Kumbaya
One could assume the Obama strategy is to help ISIS, either directly or indirectly.
George Santayana
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Another good one:
The only thing that's new in this world, is the history you don't know.
- Harry Truman
from CBC news:
“The Obama administration is moving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon, administration officials told Reuters on Friday.”
Obama realizes he has only thirteen months left to gather in as many terrorists as he can.
Morell also spent quite a bit of time saying how the government needs to have a backdoor to mobile device encryption.
ISIS is another example of the corrupt, incompetent nature of the DC Political/Media/Business machine. DC cannot even get it act together to exterminate terror group that carved a minor state-let in the ME.
Most obvious examples of things we should be doing.
How is ISIS still funding its activities? Pretty tough to keep a terrorist army together when you cannot buy guns, bullets and food for your soldiers. Why is any activity allowed between the terrorist areas and the rest of the world?
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