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| Former SF officer: 'ISIS Has a Very, Very Clear Strategy... We Do Not' |
| 2016-06-15 |
| (CNSNews.com) The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) "has a very, very clear strategy" for what they want to achieve, but "we do not," says Lt. Col. Scott Mann (Ret.), a 23-year Army veteran and former Green Beret who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. ISIS has clearly stated that it intends to use horrific violence to draw the U.S. into an apocalyptic holy war to establish a caliphate, Mann told CNSNews.com. He pointed to a propaganda video released by ISIS last year entitled No Respite that taunts Western Europe and the U.S., calling it "the shot across the bow before Paris and San Bernardino." "They tell us that this is a campaign of violence against Western Europe and the U.S., that they want to draw us into a manufactured holy war so that they can usher in the end of days. You’ll see it in the video. And so they have a strategy ‐ a very, very clear strategy. They have will and capacity to pursue that strategy. "We do not. If you look at how we have evolved in Iraq since we abandoned that place in 2011, it has been very piecemeal, it has been reactionary. Even the guys that are in there right now don’t have many authorities to get out from behind the concertina wire and actually engage those marginalized Sunni tribes." The U.S. not only fails to acknowledge the "real vulnerabilities of ISIS," but actually makes things worse by "deepening the rift" between the Shia-dominated Iraqi government, Iran-sponsored Shia militias, and the marginalized Sunni populations in which ISIS is embedded even though "ISIS is most vulnerable when they are operating in those Sunni areas," Mann said. "They [ISIS] literally have their foot on the necks of many Sunnis," explained Mann, who is now CEO of Mission America. "However, if you are a Sunni in a place like Fallujah, you know that the mostly Shia Iraqi government has been pretty rough on you since we left in 2011, and you also know that there are Shia brigades that are going to be coming for you. So you’re still gonna likely [make] your camp with ISIS because they are Sunni." |
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| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-06-15 21:14 |