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2016-03-10 Terror Networks

U.S. Special Forces Chief: No Plan to Take IS 'Capital'

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Posted by Fred 2016-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 "There is not a plan to hold Raqa" > One would think there would be given repor UK fears that the ISIS/ISL could strike London or other major British, EU Cities within range from Raqa via captured Iraqi-Syrian SCUDS armed wid Conventional, WMD, or "Dirty Nuke" warheads.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-10 01:48|| 2016-03-10 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Little need for SCUDs with agents in place.
Would be showy though.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-10 02:24|| 2016-03-10 02:24|| Front Page Top

#3 How about a plan to bomb it flat? Give the local women and children 24 hours to evacuate.

Oh that's right. George Patton died in 1945.

Posted by Bobby 2016-03-10 08:08|| 2016-03-10 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Yep, this is what a real enemy capital looked like when you actually did wage war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-10 08:30|| 2016-03-10 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 No worries, it's only a "de facto" capital./sarc

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-03-10 08:37|| 2016-03-10 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Once Pencilneck recovers enough power he can modify his uncle's Hama pacification program as the Raqaa Rules.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-03-10 08:54|| 2016-03-10 08:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Or maybe Roman General Scipio Aemilianus Africanus' Carthage pacification program.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-03-10 08:56|| 2016-03-10 08:56|| Front Page Top

#8 tl;dr: No plan for winning

Posted by SteveS 2016-03-10 11:47|| 2016-03-10 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 They aren't planning to succeed so they plan to fail.

Par for the course with Obumble.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-03-10 13:51|| 2016-03-10 13:51|| Front Page Top

#10 tl;dr: No plan for winning

Sure they do. It's called "stall until January 2017."

Not exactly 'winning' for the country, but it certainly doesn't hurt any post-presidency plans.

Posted by Pappy 2016-03-10 16:24|| 2016-03-10 16:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Stalling is the bamer's plan.

Of course the Pentagon has a plan; they have a plan for everything. What the general couldn't say was that the comander-in-chief lacks the will.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-10 17:05|| 2016-03-10 17:05|| Front Page Top

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