Haven’t they been saying that for a long time now?
“Havent they been saying that for a long time now?”
How long did it take Eisenhower to take Paris after D-Day? About three months; but that involved first getting ashore, and then fighting the best army in Europe.
Raqqa, though, is a MAJOR SYRIAN TOWN defended by irregular ISIS troops; So of course THAT will take months and months and months and years and . . .