Destroy Hamas? Something worse would follow: Pentagon intel chief

Tide Water Review ^ | 7-26-2014

[Citizen Zed]

(Reuters) - A top Pentagon intelligence official warned on Saturday that the destruction of Hamas would only lead to something more dangerous taking its place, as he offered a grim portrait of a period of enduring regional conflict.

The remarks by Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, the outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, came as Israeli ministers signaled that a comprehensive deal to end the 20-day-old conflict in the Gaza Strip appeared remote.

At least 1,050 Gazans - mostly civilians - have been killed, and 42 Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have died.

Flynn disparaged Hamas for exhausting finite resources and know-how to build tunnels that have helped them inflict record casualties on Israelis. Still, he suggested that destroying Hamas was not the answer.

"If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse," Flynn said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

"A worse threat that would come into the sort of ecosystem there … something like ISIS," he added, referring to the Islamic State, which last month declared an "Islamic caliphate" in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.

[UCANSEE2]

PING

[Diogenesis]

Why is Hasan still alive?

Why have his supporters NOT BEEN ROOTED OUT?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Worse than Hamas..what could be worse than Hamas..the Obama Administration? That’s the only thing that could be worse

[Migraine]

LOL!

[himno hero]

It’s like any major infection. It will grow exponentially until it overtakes the host... that is in the absence of action.

At some point we will have to head it off and the sooner the better! We have already missed the bud stage and Iran has gone nuclear Yep, past tense.

[ThunderSleeps]

So ensuring regional conflict is what we should be trying to avoid, allow Hamas to continue to exist? I hate to break it to him, but enduring regional conflict is what we have now with Hamas. It is in their very charter.

[Diogenesis]

Hamas = Obama's Family = US State Dept = Lois Lerner
all allied with Qatar, Turkey, Iran and N. Korea.

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New Inconsistencies with Malik Obama’s IRS Paperwork Revealed on Eve of Hearing
the date stamped at the top of the Barack H. Obama Foundation’s 501(c)(3) approval letter
which bears Lerner’s signature, is dated June 26, 2011. That day was on a Sunday.

Lois Lerner approved tax exempt status for foundation
operated by Obama's half-brother on a Sunday

Deleted IRS Emails may be about Obama’s Brother
There is sufficient cause to believe that one of the reasons for
this digital document shredding may have something to do with
President Barack Obama’s brother, Malik Obama,
founder of the Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF).

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[Migraine]

If you mean the Ft Hood asshole, I’ve got to agree with you there.

[Migraine]

Damn AND double-damn! That looks like the bastard he’s named after!

[EternalVigilance]

One of the stupidest things I ever heard.

[GeronL]

Th admin is admitting that the Palestinian people support terrorism, sounds like to me.

The Palestinians would all join ISIS?

[GeronL]

They admit the Palestinian people are not peace-loving moderates and would get worse if Hamas were destroyed?

[Nifster]

Tragic for our country that this is our so called best and brightest.

[freedomfiter2]

Yeah, look at what the world ended up with after the Nazis were dealt with.

[fieldmarshaldj]

This regime is redefining stupidity every day.

[1010RD]

At least 1,050 Gazans - mostly civilians. Terrorists are civs.

This guy is a dunce. Scared of some Juju man out of his personal pesadillas. Hamas needs destroying. Kill it all the way dead.

[bgill]

Wimps.

[1010RD]

Bingo and don’t forget Obama simply ruining the Iraq Status of Forces Agreement. We should have had all twelve US military bases and stayed in Iraq for a half century to normalize them. They’d be a second front of liberty in the ME.

[The Duke]

I’m pretty sure the next group will bleed red too.

[1010RD]

Nobody in American history has done more to help radical Islam than Obama. Carter is a distant 2nd place.