Posted on 01/26/2017 6:23:28 PM PST by springwater13
The White House is drafting a presidential directive that calls on Defense Secretary James N. Mattis to devise plans to more aggressively strike the Islamic State, which could include American artillery on the ground in Syria and Army attack helicopters to support an assault on the group’s capital, Raqqa, officials said.
President Trump, who is to make his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief on Friday, will demand that the new options be presented to him within 30 days, the officials said. During the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly said that he had a secret plan to defeat the Islamic State, but he also said that he would give his commanders a month to come up with new options.
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We don’t need to get involved in a 1000 year old religious civil war.
I read somewhere today that ISIS has begun to use their own homemade drones.
This should be interesting, but I can’t imagine we get much harsher on them without putting our own troops on the ground. Sure, we could amp up air power, but that only has so much impact.
Then there’s this looming “refugee camp” mission that was floated yesterday....< shudder >
Before: Planes sent out, come back
Innovative now: Planes sent out, drop bombs on target, come back
VERY innovative..!
“We don’t need to get involved in a 1000 year old religious civil war.”
Unfortunately that war has already come to our shores.
The best way to prevent getting stuck in the morass is to blow them up to hades, hard, fast, and permanently.
Then leave, with the promise of a return should they try that Shiite again.
We became involved on 9/11/01.
We became involved on 9/11/01....different head, same serpent/hydra.
When I read the word “artillery” my heart flutters.
Nothing can deliver more tonnage than artillery and a good supply chain. And it’s likely these savages will come to fear it, like nothing else.
IF, and that’s a big IF, it is necessary to put US Troops in Syria I hope it is to do that good work and GET THE HELL OUT THE VERY NEXT DAY!
Putin did a pretty good job. Can we get him as a special advisor?
This means that Donald Trump will start “profiling”!
Trump wants to empower local police to enforce immigration law, raising fears of racial profiling
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3517973/posts
full 180 given obama and hillary armed them...
Well the first thing they can do is just change the rules of engagement and take the shackles off the military commanders regarding collateral damage. That would help. However to really root them out will require boots on the ground.
I don’t support this. We don’t need boots on the ground in Syria.
Profiling? That’s the old PC term. The new government calls it practicing, “Common sense”.
You mean KILL THEM.
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