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Senior US commander hints war on ISIL will take 5 decades
[Iran Press TV] A top US special operations commander suggests that the war to eradicate the ISIL Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... murderous Moslems may take 50 years. It's a pity Norman Schwarzkopf is dead. Comparing the struggle against the terror group to what he described as the 50-year-long anti-terrorism campaign in Colombia, Head of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Army General Joseph Votel argued Friday before the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that when the ISIL murderous Moslems face strong resistance in one theater of operations, they turn attention to another. "I don't believe there's any one strategy that we are going to apply that is immediately going to change this," Votel said. "It's going to take a long-term approach, understanding what is happening, making smart decisions and continuing to apply pressure -- whether that is military pressure, diplomatic pressure, economic pressure, (or) informational pressure against violent hard boys." Posted by: Fred 2015-07-26 |
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