Posted on 01/26/2017 6:23:28 PM PST by springwater13
The White House is drafting a presidential directive that calls on Defense Secretary James N. Mattis to devise plans to more aggressively strike the Islamic State, which could include American artillery on the ground in Syria and Army attack helicopters to support an assault on the group’s capital, Raqqa, officials said.
President Trump, who is to make his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief on Friday, will demand that the new options be presented to him within 30 days, the officials said. During the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly said that he had a secret plan to defeat the Islamic State, but he also said that he would give his commanders a month to come up with new options.
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Do you think ISIS is just going to go away????
It’s not a 1000 year religious war
It’s an externally backed mostly non Syrian extreme islamist terror group created in Iraq and sent to topple the Syrian government and destabilize Syria
We set them up, we sent them in to slaughter Assad’s people. It’s up to us to help take them out
They have also outlived their usefulness in Iraq as a destabilizing force necessitating our continued military bases
Mission creep is a serious concern
We need to end it over there so we can send them all back, the refugees.
A10s and F16s.
“We don’t need to get involved in a 1000 year old religious civil war.”
no we don’t, but we can’t allow the cancer of destabilization of that region which was precipitated by Obama and Hillary to grow unchecked. Should Syria and Iraq disintegrate into failed countries ISIS will grow unchecked on the world stage in terms of both power and wealth, with massively negative consequences for the Western world.
HUH Isis is out problem and General Mattis will
come out with a plan to kill these turds.
Trump may consider using our influence in Iraq to help the Kurds gain independence for the area that they have already cleared and control in return for leading the ground assault.
We have the capacity to provide them with incredible real time intelligence and arm them to the max.
ISIS cannot stand against the best fighters in the Middle East if they are “loaded for bear”
I receive daily updates from DoD and yesterday seemed to be a substantial uptick in strikes.
Chuck Norris wears Donald Trump pajamas.
Then leave, with the promise of a return should they try that Shiite again.
Agree. Hard to believe someone could come up with a policy so stupid and even worse, were allowed to enact it. From a security standpoint it’s flat out scary.
No. It will not go away.
It has been around in one form or another for since the beginning of Islam.
Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl
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Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman in his book ‘On Killing’ wrote that artillery fire consistently accounted for the majority of combat casualties throughout the 20th century.
Recognizing that "breaking it" involves killing a bunch of young Americans.
There will be no permanent solution.
There are vastly more of them than us for one thing, plus they are far more fertile than we are.
On top of that, extremists in Islam have been around since its inception.
We cannot kill them faster than they can put new people into insurgency.
The only way for us (and Europe should they come to their senses which they won’t) is to contain them as much as we can in their own lands.
I urge you all to read the history of these regions. It one long litany of ISIS like groups marauding over their fellow Muslims over arcane religious differences. One after the other with only brief periods of what could be called “peace” when a strong dictator could hold onto power for whatever period of time.
Yep. That’s war.
Syria and Iraq are already failed countries (as is Libya and Yemen) and many more on the way.
Sure we can, a city a day. Pretty soon we'll start running out of their cities.
When it comes to blowing things up....we're pretty good at it.
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