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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This is the wrong move. I agree with you.
Why have them come back - what $2000 - $10K why bring it back - one way delivery - no returns allowed
We have been fighting the forces of evil since the beginning of time. ISIS is just the latest tool satan has employed...
“The M109A7 can sustain a one round per-minute rate of fire and a maximum rate of fire of four rounds per-minute”.
Relentless assault. That would put the hurt on them.
As long as there is no nation building I am in. We need to decisively annihilate ISIS. At some point enough is enough and not only do we need to defeat them ... we need to make an example out of them.
Excellent!
As Bush or Rumsfeld said something like: We need to kill them over there so we won’t have to fight them over here.
They are already targeting us. we can’t just sit and let them come and kill us.
So what fills the vacuum after we destroy them.
Is it your position that we don't care?
Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl
Why does Trump want to beat Obama’s JV team 100 to 0?
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.
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That is exactly right. Otherwise we will indeed be involving our country in years and perhaps decades of skirmishing with those savages. The only way to deal with fanatics is to annihilate them.
with extreme prejudice.
It's called, "defeat in detail." They usually don't come back after that.
President Trump's secret plan may not even involve the military. This (just like all the other activity) will be very interesting to see.
“Relentless assault.”
60 on one side and 60 on the other. Two rounds per second, for days. That’ll get their attention.
Commercially available drones - with home made bombs, but I guess that’s what you meant. They aren’t building them out of clocks.
Glad you brought that up. It is an extremely important point. Of course I care ... especially about the poor innocents in these countries. But it is THEIR country. I think we have to find ways to install dictators in these hellholes to keep some semblance of order. But I have said for a long time that we need to reword the Powell doctrine to read "If we break it THEY fix it. " We quickly decimate these terrorist organizations and just leave ... and then come back later as needed to break it again.
Exactly what they said.
Then Obama and Hillary INVITED them over there.
Don't remember many details....they said they carried small but lethal explosives and were surprisingly accurate.
Profiling? That’s the old PC term. The new government calls it practicing, “Common sense”.
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The prohibition of “profiling” was from the outset nothing more that a strategy to prevent law enforcement from doing its job.
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