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2015-09-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.S. launches secret drone campaign to hunt Islamic State leaders in Syria
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Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 This in addition to the less-than-two-dozen daily air strikes apparently vetted by the Klingons?
Posted by Pappy 2015-09-02 00:17||   2015-09-02 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I gotta ask: if it's so friggin' secret, why are we reading about it in the WaPo? How does that work?
Posted by SteveS 2015-09-02 01:17||   2015-09-02 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 As has been stated here previously, the administration's efforts against ISIS are not about putting out the fire. What we are seeing is an attempt at a controlled burn. The battle space is being shaped to enable an Iranian regional resolution, not a U.S. victory.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-02 03:11||   2015-09-02 03:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm looking at it as the US doing just enough containment until IS becomes an actual Islamic State, so the "international community" can rush in to negotiate, mediate, and in general try to tie down the new theocracy in a mass of political correctness, treaties and trade agreements.

The idea that diplomats' heads will end up on poles likely hasn't occurred to them.
Posted by Pappy 2015-09-02 07:40||   2015-09-02 07:40|| Front Page Top

#5 U.S. launches secret drone campaign to hunt Islamic State leaders in Syria

...but this one was 'double super secret'!
Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-02 08:11||   2015-09-02 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Wouldn't one assume that we have been doing this all along? My assumption is that WaPo published it for domestic political reasons. What those may be escape me. Is there an appropriations bill up for a vote?
Posted by Javise Greath3056 2015-09-02 16:22||   2015-09-02 16:22|| Front Page Top

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