[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
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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
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, 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."
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.
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