Posted on 01/22/2017 11:03:00 PM PST by tcrlaf
Newly minted Secretary of Defense James Mattis celebrated his first full day at the Pentagon by overseeing 31 strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Mattis entered the Pentagon Saturday with a smile for his first full day of work, and for good reason, considering the significant bombardment ISIS forces received.
A variety of fighters, bombers and remotely piloted aircraft engaged in the bombing run, which saw 25 strikes in Syria and six in Iraq.
In Syria, two strikes destroyed ISIS units and artillery near the town of Bab. ISIS forces in Raqqa, the terrorist group’s de facto capital, took a heavy beating, as 22 strikes destroyed 12 tactical units, nine fighting positions, two underground improvised explosive bomb factories and an ISIS headquarters. The final strike targeted two ISIS oil wells in Deir ez Zour.
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I generally go to the source. DOD, etc. I use a spidey search engine, too, newsnow.co.uk for general purposes (Iraq and Afghanistan mostly). No TV at all unless streamed. I was just thinking if the CIA site is all blank pages. LOL
I thought it was mostly oil...from 11/2015, but expect their funding to slow to a steady drip. One thing that gets me is why the Taliban are permitted to grow poppies in Afghanistan. The Taliban told the President to get out of Afghanistan. (Haven’t been able to type President for 8 loooooong years.)
Thank you Elsie.
I live rural in N Nevada high desert.
The only warning anyone gets is that each gate has a NO TRESPASSING sign next to it. One gate has 2 signs.
IF you want to continue to enter my property, I get to handle it any way I wish. Since I have livestock here, I have other options the city people don’t have.
Personally, a Veterans Multi-service Center like in philly would be GREAT.
We don’t have to format on FR if we don’t want to.
As long as there are no HTML commands found in our text; link addresses will display as a clickable link.
No need to copy and paste it into the address line of your browser.
I hope they will be loosened, but Mattis helped Petraeus write them.
YEAH! And a bowling alley and shooting range with special discounts for vets, too.
Exactly!
You and me both.
What a breath of fresh air.
I had also nearly given up on having a good president again.
Now we even have Pence to follow on.
This is the best chance we’ve had to get the nation back on track sine the Founding.
We have the Senate, House, and a President who sees things like we do.
I never saw this coming two years ago.
I’m really rubbing in the NeverTrump ideology these days. We actually had a significant number of brain trusts who wanted to force a pass on this current situation.
Sheesh!
LOL, yes, what a fool.
Huh. Wonder how they talked Mattis into waiting all the way until Monday morning.
Bush made a statement about terrorist groups around the world, and let even Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Fata go on with business as usual.
He even sent funds to the leadership of the Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza led by a terrorist group. It was ostensibly to be spent for public services, but the very idea of running it through those groups was very ill advised.
Agreed
They got a fair amount from oil, but they’re still rolling along. I’d bet a shiny nickel that Saudi Arabia is still bankrolling them. It doesn’t help that we keep backing these stupid “rebel groups” in Syria who turn right around and join ISIS.
Way to go, Mad Dog!
DITTO!
HAH!
"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."
"My aim, then, was to whip the Rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom."
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
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