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Report: Obama Sees Assad Ouster As Key To Defeating IS
2014-11-14
[Ynet] CNN cites US official as saying administration believes that 'to genuinely defeat ISIS, we need not only a defeat in Iraq but a defeat in Syria.'

US President Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesnât. But she is a typical white person...
wants his advisers to review the administration's Syria policy after determining it may not be possible to defeat Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
holy warriors without removing Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, CNN reported on Wednesday.
Eh? Surely they have that backward -- only by leaving Assad in place can ISIS be defeated.
Citing senior US officials, the network said Obama's national security team held four meetings in the past week that were driven by how the administration's Syria strategy fit into its campaign against Islamic State, which has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq.

"The president has asked us to look again at how this fits together," CNN quoted one bigwig as saying. "The long-running Syria problem is now compounded by the reality that to genuinely defeat ISIL, we need not only a defeat in Iraq but a defeat in Syria." ISIL is another acronym for Islamic State.

A White House National Security Council official told Rooters: "The strategy with respect to Syria has not changed."
A foolish consistency...
The official said Obama's national security team "meets frequently to determine how best to carry out the strategy he set forth to counter ISIL in Iraq and Syria through several military and non-military lines of effort."

"While the immediate focus remains to drive ISIL out of Iraq, we and coalition partners will continue to strike at ISIL in Syria to deny them safe haven and to disrupt their ability to project power," the official added.
January 2017 cannot come soon enough.
Posted by:trailing wife

#10  The ISIS/ISIL is exclusive or exists independently of Baby Assad, so getting rid of the latter is unlikely to stop anything ala the ISIS + ISIS new BFF Al-Nusra, etal.

The Bammer = USA, OTOH, may lose the support of important allies at a crucial time ... ...

* TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > HARPER: CANADA AT WAR WID ISIL, NOT SYRIA, i.e. Baby Assad.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-11-14 20:46  

#9  This administration will say anything. They make iy up as they go along.
Posted by: SR71   2014-11-14 17:04  

#8  This assertion would be more credible if it came from that fellow at M.I.T., Gruber
Posted by: regular joe   2014-11-14 10:24  

#7  I've seen this movie

Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-11-14 10:10  

#6  Deposing a dictator in the ME - worked well last time, didn't it?
Posted by: Raj   2014-11-14 09:01  

#5  Trying to start up a proxy war with the Soviet Union , uhh I mean Russia!
Posted by: chris   2014-11-14 06:31  

#4  It's the same administration that sees Palestinian state as a way to Peace in ME, JFM.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-11-14 05:15  

#3  If he really wanted to defeat ISIS wouldn't it be more logical to ouster the Quatari regime supports and funds ISIS instead of a guy who fights it?

That is, assuming Barak Husein Obama who paved the way for a,n Islamic uptake of Syria and went out of his way to give Egypt to the Islamists, mlater to try to keep them in power, reallay wants to fight ISIS instead of helping it.
Posted by: JFM   2014-11-14 04:50  

#2  I cannot understand Champ's fixation with the Pencilneck.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-14 01:56  

#1  Not s lot of focus in that approach.

I think Assad is a can that can be kicked down the road. I believe a focus on the men in black and their evil twins in Al Nusra is what is needed now.
Posted by: Mystic   2014-11-14 01:49  

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