To Defeat Islamic State, Remove Assad

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 10-06-2014 | John McCain and Lindsey Graham

[Bettyprob]

Syrians are already asking why we’re bombing ISIS but not stopping Assad’s attacks on them. Good question.

The airstrikes and other actions President Obama is taking against Islamic State deserve bipartisan support. They are beginning to degrade the terrorist group, also known as ISIS, but will not destroy it, for one reason above all: The administration still has no effective policy to remove Bashar Assad from power and end the conflict in Syria.

Administration officials have called their approach “ISIS first.” As for Mr. Assad, in the words of Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the administration will “defer that challenge into the future.” This is not a luxury we get to choose. And Mr. Obama himself recently said he does “recognize the contradiction” in his own policy—which is that by confronting Islamic State but not Assad, the U.S. may unintentionally benefit the ruler whose ouster he continues, rightly, to demand.

Unfortunately, this is not the only self-defeating contradiction in the administration’s Syria policy.

[matthew fuller]

I think that these guys might be descendants of Ghenghis Kahn. I believe that about one of every 200 Asians have his DNA.

[tomkat]

Kill all combatants

             

[matthew fuller]

I need to correct my previous post. The correct statement is: about one in every 200 MEN are descendants of Ghengis Khan.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan/#.VDSzeFcmsU0