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Petraeus: Ground Forces Needed in Syria to Defeat ISIS
[PJ Media] Gen. David Petraeus said the United States has to have a ground force in Syria if its goal is to defeat the Islamic State.
The loyal regime champion listens and responds.
"I think that the limiting factor all along in Syria has been the absence of a Sunni Arab moderate force that we could support. The fact is, I don't care what your objective is in Syria, if your objective is that Bashar must go, you have to have a Sunni Arab force that's going to get him to go," the former CIA director said at the Brookings Institution during a discussion about Michael O'Hanlon's book The Future of Land Warfare.

"If your objective is to get to the diplomatic table, and we're there now, to a degree, you have to have a military context. There is no military solution, as everyone is fond of saying. There is a military context that has to be established without which no one is going to go to the negotiating table, or at least they won't negotiate seriously. And by the way, if you want to degrade and defeat the Islamic State and the al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Khorasan Group, the al-Qaeda element sent there for establishment of a cell in Northern Syria, you're going to have to have a ground force."

Despite his emphasis on the need for ground forces, Petraeus said the U.S. military is able to do a lot with air capabilities.

"It's very, very important to note that our capabilities now are just so vastly greater than when we did the fight to Baghdad. The armada of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft that we have over the skies in Iraq and Syria is just breathtaking," he said.
No General, actually what is 'breathtaking' is your sycophantic adoration and loyalty to Obama and his puppeteers. But of course you have been well compensated and your shameless reemergence bodes quite well for current violators of national security. Your recognition of JSOC must have been a difficult pill to swallow, but I suppose highlighting their obvious limitations will be viewed by other gov't agencies as an enabler.
Many of the people Stalin executed professed to love him and confessed their sins at their show trials...

Posted by: Besoeker 2015-11-12
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