President Obama’s newly appointed envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, retired Gen. John Allen, added his voice to the chorus of officials warning that the war is going to take a long, long time.
Gen. Allen told reporters today that the war is still in “early stages” and that the campaign is going to require time and patience. He also offered some of the first details on the plan for the campaign.
Allen insisted that trying to attack the city of Mosul, the largest ISIS-held city, was not imminent, and that the plans so far were for the move against Mosul to “kick off within a year.”
Allen also tried to keep pushing President Obama’s pledge of no ground troops going to Iraq, saying the plan remains military advisers and increased aid to Iraqi military forces.
Obama = ISIS/ISIL = Israel = Britain = Kurds
Don't believe a word of ISIS as threat. These are their own terrorists like Al Qaeda and Bin Ladin.
Obama is a war criminal. If ICC cannot arrest the real war criminals in Washington, Tel Aviv, France and Britain, then ICC must be bombed now.
Face it: It's over.
The pre-programming of the American people continues… I wonder what MIC megacorp Allen works for now. Gotta keep the stock prices up, you know.
Obama's Canadian stooge, also known as Steven Harper, has been desperate to get in on the destruction of Iraq for 11 years. Now that he is Prime Minister he is able to drag Canada into the maelstrom with a little help from the beheading videos.
So far he has only agreed to bomb Iraq and not Syria. He's probably waiting for Obama to approve the oil pipeline before announcing that Syria will be bombed as well. Funny how no media in Canada will talk about the possibility of a quid pro quo. Canadians are expected to swallow the story that it's all about protecting Canada from the Evil Islamismists.
After-all, Bush's 'poodle' Blair was rewarded quite handsomely for going along with the Iraq war, by being made a member of the military-industrial Carlyle Group. It's becoming a bit of a British Commonwealth tradition, emphasis on the 'wealth'.
Did you see all those medals on Gen. Allen? Did he ever actually fight in a war? US military is like the worst of penny-ante dictatorship armies.
What arrogance. Talking years out just seems so easy for these pigs.
steven harper is gwb puppet
harper wanted to go with george w bush into iraq in 2003 harper is GWB puppet
Really General? I could have sworn that I hadn't heard a declared war from Congress? So, how can you say this is going to be long war? You mean an illegitimate and illegal war started by a rogue/lawless regime.
WaPo: ‘Homeland’ is the most bigoted show on television
Yet the show, created by “24” veterans Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa and former Israeli paratrooper Gideon Raff, continues to rack up awards, critical praise and millions of viewers…
Issa, the son of terrorist leader Abu Nazir, has his name mispronounced by everyone on the show; Roya Hammad — there to remind us that even a Westernized, business-suit-wearing Arab is not to be trusted — is supposedly Palestinian but has a Persian first name…
In just a few steps, the show has neatly stitched together all the current bogeymen of U.S. foreign policy. (The ISIS tie-in is presumably coming in season five.)
There’s just one small problem: Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah don’t actually like each other. Hezbollah is currently fighting the al-Nusra Front, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria…
But all of this is way too nuanced for “Homeland,” in which Muslims can play one of exactly two roles: terrorists or willing collaborators with U.S. intelligence forces… http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2…
not "too nuanced", i'm afraid, but INTENTIONAL…