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Top U.S. general [Retired]: 'We are not trying to destroy ISIS'
WND ^ | 22 Nov 2015 | Greg Corombos

Posted on 11/22/2015 6:04:16 PM PST by amorphous

ISIS can be defeated, but it will take much greater will on the part of President Obama, an exponentially more robust air campaign with more reasonable rules of engagement and Arab ground forces to get the job done, according to retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney.

McInerney spent 35 years in uniform and rose to the role of assistant vice chief of staff, the number three position in the Air Force. He also served as a combat pilot in Vietnam and as vice commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe. He said the first step is for Obama to admit the U.S. currently has no strategy.

"He doesn't have a strategy and that's why, 16 months after we started the air campaign, we're still at it," said McInerney, who compared America’s current policy of a few sorties a day to what was accomplished back in the Gulf War in 1991.

"Desert Storm was 600,000 troops against Saddam Hussein’s forces," he said. "We had a 43-day air campaign and a 100-hour ground campaign. I don't understand what the president's strategy is. I don't know what the president's purpose is. He just has not exhibited any desire to take ISIS out."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agitprop; astroturf; isis; islam; obama; paidrussiantrolls; putinsbuttboys; russia; russianstooge; russianstooges; syria; vladtheimploder
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To: SaveFerris
Beware the attempts by liberal churches to identify islam as an "Abrahamic faith".

Every church / congregation / home study group in America needs to set aside a time to view the following seminar by Dr. Bill Warner:

Bill Warner, PhD: Why We Are Afraid: 1400 Years of Fear - English No Sub-titles

21 posted on 11/22/2015 6:35:08 PM PST by amorphous
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To: MtnClimber

Hussein bitterly clings to his arming of Jihadis and the tenets of their Queeran.


22 posted on 11/22/2015 6:38:20 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: amorphous

Under the First Moslem (undocumented, Indonesia),
the USA arms al Qaeda and ISIS to increase
slavery, rape, murder and genocide around the world.

It is the “reward” of America, the CIA and Pentagon
for al Qaeda murdering 3000 Americans on 911
and bombing the Pentagon.

In an alternate universe, al Qaeda and ISIS were
destroyed, the First Moslem was impeached,
and Hasan was executed.
And in that Universe, America and its
Constitution and freedom survived.


23 posted on 11/22/2015 6:44:08 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: ASA Vet

would you mind not spamming so many threads with your wish list. It’s really getting old....


24 posted on 11/22/2015 6:48:12 PM PST by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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To: SaveFerris

“It is made up of people who doing what they think is best for their community”

So was the Nazi Party. Violence was the answer.


25 posted on 11/22/2015 6:51:13 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: amorphous

Zero is too busy trying to make them American citizens.


26 posted on 11/22/2015 6:51:15 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SaveFerris

“It is made up of people who doing what they think is best for their community”

So was the Nazi Party. Violence was the answer.


27 posted on 11/22/2015 6:51:16 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: babygene

Learn to scroll past if if bugs you. I get more positive comments than negatives regarding the list.


28 posted on 11/22/2015 6:51:56 PM PST by ASA Vet (Trump is the only candidate since Reagan that I have actually WANTED to vote for.)
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To: amorphous

Why is NO ONE stating the obvious. Obama is pro ISIS!


29 posted on 11/22/2015 6:52:00 PM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: amorphous

ISIS is helping Obama move Muslims to the Free World


30 posted on 11/22/2015 6:53:27 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: ASA Vet

I bet you haven’t gotten one in a month...


31 posted on 11/22/2015 6:54:40 PM PST by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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To: amorphous

ISIS will be defeated. I cannot imagine anyone betting on ISIS. The people in ISiS are history’s losers. This is not a group of winners. The winners in life do not act like the people in ISIS. They will lose and be tossed into the garbage can of history.


32 posted on 11/22/2015 6:55:51 PM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: amorphous

Look at the ariel view of the strike on Jihadi John.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3316497/Has-Jihadi-John-killed-drone-strike-Officials-claim-British-ISIS-fanatic-targeted-Raqqa.html

Now notice the ISIS targets that still stand on the same street.

ISIS Court, ISIS HQ.....etc


33 posted on 11/22/2015 7:10:20 PM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: Tau Food
ISIS may be defeated but the Islamic State will not be defeated, at least not without Divine intervention eventually.

Study Indonesia and how it came to be the most populated Muslim country in the world. Islam has had its cycles. Growth followed by being driven back to a corner in the M.E., time after time. We are witnessing exponential growth of Islam now that will be very hard, if not to impossible, to contain - and I don't think I'm overstating what I, and many others, see coming.

34 posted on 11/22/2015 7:15:12 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Benghazi was gun running weapons of mass destruction to the Sunni Muslims terrorists.


35 posted on 11/22/2015 7:18:01 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: amorphous

We need to hear a lot of this sort of talk and then it needs to lead to action.


36 posted on 11/22/2015 7:18:15 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: amorphous

I cannot predict whether we will continue to have nations that have an Islamic culture. Presumably, we will. My prediction is that ISIS is not pursuing a successful growth strategy. It will be defeated. The rest of the world is never going to tolerate or make peace with losers like these guys. I cannot figure out if they are just real stupid or if they are for some reason extremely desperate. But, I do not have to figure that out to know that they will fail.


37 posted on 11/22/2015 7:21:02 PM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
We need to hear a lot of this sort of talk and then it needs to lead to action.

If by talk you mean educate the world about the truth of Islam, I agree. As for action, that will come when enough people know the truth about Islam and are awake enough to stop turning a blind eye to it.

< Islam only exist through terror and intimidation, corrupt morals of those it seeks to subdue, blindness and ignorance of its victims, through stealth, and when good men and women do nothing to stop it, until it overwhelms a country or people through numbers of followers.

Keep in mind, there are many decent Muslims. Many have and will convert to Christianity and other religions. Some have paid for leaving Islam with their lives and the lives of their entire families.

One way or another, action will become unavoidable, as is the case in Europe. And sooner or later, it will be on our shores as well. Islam's goal is world domination as is plainly stated in its writings.

38 posted on 11/22/2015 7:33:07 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

He could sortie at will. There is zero ISIS air resistance. Why anything in the area is still moving is a matter of will, not capability. Kurds or anybody else should be able to mop up afterwards. I think Putin has a strategy. Feckless ones priority appears to be alienate half+ of his own country and create more internal chaos.


39 posted on 11/22/2015 7:51:35 PM PST by Kudsman (Restore the Republic, repeal the 17th.)
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To: MtnClimber

Worry not—France and Russia will do the job and mete out tardy justice to ISIS. It will also forge a new allance between the two. Watch as Germany and England sign on late in the game. Obama should be replaced with an American.


40 posted on 11/22/2015 8:24:13 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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