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The United States refuses to LEAD in a war against ISIS, but it is simultaneously making it harder for anyone else to do so!
Thus a CIA veteran with long experience hunting Osama bin Laden and trying to outmaneuver ISIS, speaking privately, tells The Daily Beast, “Everybody is going to respond to this thing with solidarity, tying little ribbons on trees and that sort of bullshit,” when what’s needed, in his opinion, is “to drive a stake in their heart.”
How do you do that?
“Put together a force of 6,000 or 7,000 airborne soldiers and just take Raqqa. Don’t issue warnings. Don’t assemble tank columns. Train the force, then use it,” said this gentleman, a veteran of the clandestine services, but not of the military. “They have made Raqqa the capital of their state. Take it and you have changed the ground immediately. You can’t fight ISIS with baby steps, and what happened in Paris gives you the immediate rationale to do something strategic. Otherwise ... THEY ARE WINNING!"
Alain Bauer, a leading terrorism analyst and adviser to officials in Paris about counter-terror strategies, said, "“If we really want to do something, we need to erase Raqqa.”
What keeps this from happening?
"In Bauer's opinion, the United States. “Every bombing is a nightmare to negotiate,” he said. “Here’s a target. ‘Oops, there’s a garden there. Oops, there’s a family there. Oops, you cannot destroy this, you cannot destroy that.’”
(To hell with esthetics, gardens, parks, libraries ISIS is using as a headquarters.)
While ISIS is fighting a barbaric war without mercy - beheading and burning civilians while wiping out historic world monuments and history, the Obama administration is trying to fight a 'Gentleman's War with ISIS using pin-prick drone strikes.
France declared after the attacks there, 'No Mercy' and proceeded to strike at the heart of ISIS in Syria - RAQQA! It is beginning to be the opinion of many inFrance and other nations that such a barbaric enemy must be fought with ferocity and determination, a will to DEFEAT and DESTROY this evil enemy.
If Obama and the US aren't going to do it FINE....just get the hell out of the way so those who have that will to do it get on with it.
LINK: After Paris, Is It Time to Roll on Raqqa, the ISIS Capital?
Thus a CIA veteran with long experience hunting Osama bin Laden and trying to outmaneuver ISIS, speaking privately, tells The Daily Beast, “Everybody is going to respond to this thing with solidarity, tying little ribbons on trees and that sort of bullshit,” when what’s needed, in his opinion, is “to drive a stake in their heart.”
How do you do that?
“Put together a force of 6,000 or 7,000 airborne soldiers and just take Raqqa. Don’t issue warnings. Don’t assemble tank columns. Train the force, then use it,” said this gentleman, a veteran of the clandestine services, but not of the military. “They have made Raqqa the capital of their state. Take it and you have changed the ground immediately. You can’t fight ISIS with baby steps, and what happened in Paris gives you the immediate rationale to do something strategic. Otherwise ... THEY ARE WINNING!"
Alain Bauer, a leading terrorism analyst and adviser to officials in Paris about counter-terror strategies, said, "“If we really want to do something, we need to erase Raqqa.”
What keeps this from happening?
"In Bauer's opinion, the United States. “Every bombing is a nightmare to negotiate,” he said. “Here’s a target. ‘Oops, there’s a garden there. Oops, there’s a family there. Oops, you cannot destroy this, you cannot destroy that.’”
(To hell with esthetics, gardens, parks, libraries ISIS is using as a headquarters.)
While ISIS is fighting a barbaric war without mercy - beheading and burning civilians while wiping out historic world monuments and history, the Obama administration is trying to fight a 'Gentleman's War with ISIS using pin-prick drone strikes.
France declared after the attacks there, 'No Mercy' and proceeded to strike at the heart of ISIS in Syria - RAQQA! It is beginning to be the opinion of many inFrance and other nations that such a barbaric enemy must be fought with ferocity and determination, a will to DEFEAT and DESTROY this evil enemy.
If Obama and the US aren't going to do it FINE....just get the hell out of the way so those who have that will to do it get on with it.
LINK: After Paris, Is It Time to Roll on Raqqa, the ISIS Capital?
