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Former CIA deputy director: ISIS strategy not working
The Hill ^ | 11/15/2015 | Bradford Richardson

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.”

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.”

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.”


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21 posted on 11/15/2015 9:27:26 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeeSharp

This was major & complicated, you are right. France really dropped the ball on this. Part of me wonders if they inside help, given how close they got to Hollande.


22 posted on 11/15/2015 9:28:12 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have a strategy:

Turn Medina into glass, then loudly announce the next terrorist act will result in the annihilation of Mecca.

Repeat as necessary.


23 posted on 11/15/2015 9:29:18 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: RoosterRedux

We should be using the strategy we use on Fire Ants!
Kill them all, including their nests!


24 posted on 11/15/2015 9:29:27 AM PST by GOYAKLA (One wins, when getting more than even!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hes right but as a Hillary operative, here Mike Morell`s role is acting as hitman against Obama.

This is payback for the recently enhanced email investigation.


25 posted on 11/15/2015 9:30:24 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Vic S
The only thing that's new in this world, is the history you don't know.

Excellent quote, one I had not heard.

Thanks for posting it.....and welcome to FR!

26 posted on 11/15/2015 9:31:48 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: GOYAKLA

27 posted on 11/15/2015 9:33:43 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: PghBaldy

Yep. Directly and indirectly.


28 posted on 11/15/2015 9:38:26 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As long as America continues to cower in the corner, we’ll be okay. Until we run out of corners.


29 posted on 11/15/2015 9:53:26 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#blackfridaysmatter)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The policy toward ISIS is going like Obama and Brennan wish it to.
30 posted on 11/15/2015 10:07:11 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I take exception to the claims of sophistication, a bomb planted in a cargo hold by a sleeper agent isn’t sophistocated and while bloody and horrific suicide bombing and shooting fish in a barrel isn’t sophistocated either.

Yes our non policy policy is a failure but none of these come across to me as highly sophistocated


31 posted on 11/15/2015 10:12:43 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: RoosterRedux
What strategy?

Here's the strategy:

Inflate the "intelligence' bureaucracy.

Create excuses for top 'Intelligence' people to fly around the world 'meeting' with other 'intelligence' people.

Talk and exchange ideas.

"Discover' more spying on American citizen is necessary.

Inform the idiots in Washington that "YES" they are right - bring over 250,000 Syrians and distribute them around the United States. (Less then ten terrorist were active in Paris... LESS than ten... and these fools want us to bring in 250,000 people to 'watch' with $100,000 a year 'intelligence professionals'...)

Again inflate the intelligence bureaucracy to cover surveillance of 250,000 Syrians...

Make sure TV/Fox/CNN spots are open so "Intelligence / CIA blowhards can put their faces on TV...

That's the 'strategy' Rooster... AND it has NOTHING to do with making us safe.

32 posted on 11/15/2015 10:38:24 AM PST by GOPJ (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates...Mark Steyn)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The dualism of Islam is the cause. America needs to ban Islam just as Angola has! Islam is not a religion, which means that we do not need to provide Islam protections under the Constitution.

Study Islam
http://www.politicalislam.com/a-civilizational-manifesto/


33 posted on 11/15/2015 10:56:36 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What the hell does HE know? Obozo's "stragegy" is working JUST FINE thank you very much.
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34 posted on 11/15/2015 11:03:28 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

psychopaths just do what psychopaths do


35 posted on 11/15/2015 11:08:55 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: MNJohnnie
How is ISIS still funding its activities?

Aside form hundreds of millions seized with banks, they have been selling stolen (captured) oil through Turkey, trucked out in convoys. If just a handful of A-10s were allowed to create a truck shortage, that would put a ding in their ongoing cash flow.

36 posted on 11/15/2015 11:12:48 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

37 posted on 11/15/2015 11:14:51 AM PST by dfwgator
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