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Halting ISIS Would Require Attacks in Syria, Top General Says
New York Times ^ | 08/21/2014 | By MICHAEL R. GORDON and HELENE COOPER

Posted on 08/21/2014 1:48:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

WASHINGTON — Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday afternoon that it would not be possible to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria without attacking its fighters in Syria.

General Dempsey, speaking at a news conference with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, did not commit the United States to carrying out airstrikes in Syria, and the Obama administration’s broader strategy for defeating the Sunni militant group remained unclear.

Earlier in the day, the Pentagon announced that American warplanes had conducted six more strikes on ISIS targets in the vicinity of the Mosul Dam in Iraq, destroying three Humvees, another vehicle and several improvised explosive device emplacements. The ISIS fighters are a highly mobile force that may number as many as 17,000 men and can move across the Iraq-Syria border with impunity, according to American military and civilian officials.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; iraq; isis; israel; jayvee; kurdistan; martindempsey; russia; syria; waronterror; yazidi; yazidis
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes


21 posted on 08/21/2014 3:31:48 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: SeekAndFind

Here is the report

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1006045/possible-implications-of-bad-intelligence.pdf


22 posted on 08/21/2014 3:34:24 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Gen.Blather

What I have read Turkey is really concerned with ISIS and were prepared to launch their own air strikes if we did not. ISIS at this moment are fighting theses forces listed bellow.
Syria
Iraq
US
Peshmerga (Iraqi Kurds)
PKK (Turkish Kurds)
YPG (Syrian Kurds)
Hezbollah
Iran
Al Nusra Front (Al Qaeda)
Free Syrian Army
Lebanon
Russia (pilots Iraqi AF)
They seem to make enemies in all directions.


23 posted on 08/21/2014 5:33:18 PM PDT by gusty
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To: Gen.Blather
Obama is personally committed to the Syrian "Rebels," as part of the "Arab Spring" nonsense which has cost the lives of many THOUSANDS of Christians across North Africa and into the ME.

What the Affirmative Action Anus is unable to see through his Muslim glasses is that the "rebels" are jihadist scum who massacre Christians wherever they can find them. That's just as his cousin and ally Raila Odinga's people did in Kenya in 2006.

Assad is not attractive, OK? But he is not going to surrender his country ... and it is his ... to Muslim swine who would obliterate his people, The Christians of one of the oldest Churches of the Gospel in the world, and anyone else they consider an Infidel. The Syrians are an effective force, supported and trained by the Russians to use highly sophisticated weapons and are more or less wiping out the jihadist "rebels."

So, for Obama to crack down on ISIS, which exists in Iraq only because the Syrian Army has chased these disgusting devils out of their country, he would have to work with Assad. An ideologically driven pro-Muslim, Obama cannot bring himself to do that.

24 posted on 08/21/2014 7:02:03 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Only a specific Program, Plan, and Leadership will end the chaos of dysfunctional government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There goes Damascus!
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25 posted on 08/21/2014 7:03:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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26 posted on 08/25/2014 4:37:08 AM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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Take them out in Syria or don’t take them out in Syria? Make up your mind General they’re already on their way to Turkey for protection.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/25/joint-chiefs-chairman-says-isis-not-direct-threat-to-west-wont-recommend-syria/

On their way...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196629/posts


27 posted on 08/25/2014 6:43:41 AM PDT by huldah1776
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