The Pentagon has announced today the creation of a new military command, dubbed Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, which will oversee the war against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria.
The new command, and by extension the war, will be placed under the charge of Army Lt. Gen. James Terry, who was previously in charge of a V Corps, US ground troops in Germany.
The Pentagon seemed to be trying to downplay the significance of establishing a formal command specifically for the war, saying only that it would mean press releases about the war would come from the command instead of from Centcom.
But the US doesn’t establish new conflict-centric military commands, particularly for ones spanning multiple countries, just every day, and the move reflects the continued escalation of the war in both size and length.
This is not just any old US military intervention at this point. Rather the war on ISIS now spans thousands of US troops, with more coming all the time, and a battle expected to last many, many years.
Establishing a command is far more than a move to get Centcom out of filing some press releases. It’s an indication that the war is becoming too big to be managed at the regional command level, and with escalation seemingly the only constant in the war, it was only going to get more unwieldy.
These people won't be satisfied until they reduce the earth to a broken rock unable to sustain life.
You're way too pessimistic. Long after Humans go extinct new species will evolve and once we are gone the earth will eventually cleanse itself. The water and air will again become pure a couple million years from now. What is a couple million years to the earth? New species will evolve.
The earth has seen much worse than us.
"…much worse than us."
Au contraire, what we are doing is willful and is avoidable. I would prefer my pessimism be proven wrong than your optimism. But that's just this old Curmudgeon's opinion…
Of course, I was referring to "human" life. The cockroaches will inherit the earth…someday.
“Operation Inherent Resolve”
Not hardly, for no way is it intrinsic to the DNA of our brutal imperialism to pursue with bulldog tenacity what is right by doing what is just and right. Quite the reverse.
For it is human nature for the beast in us to enslave those in a lower class, to demand submission while we plunder those who have not the power to kill us.
For in 1945 we created nuclear weapons that terrorized the world into submission to our will, which means that until something comes along that ends our deadly supremacy, always and for a reality, plunders of the weak and helpless shall we be.
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When they start giving names to the operation you know it has hit the big time. I bet just coming up with the name cost a sh**load of money.
To — GeorgyOrwell — A man with faith in contradictions
Truth is, there are thousands upon thousands of degreed engineers, scientists and geologists who reject the theory of evolution, preferring instead the intelligent design concept of creation.
For example, look at how the vast majority have such an ingrate illusion that life is not a free gift, that life is an inalienable right, the conclusion of which gives them a life-long greed driven desire to “Be All You Can Be,” to take all you can take, own all you can own and to be a dictator over all who are on land that you own.
Surely such a greed driven world had to come about by intelligent design, as the ultimate conclusion has to be irreversible corruption and the total destruction of all living things. The exact reverse and direct contradiction of all that the theory of evolution stands for, the illusion that all things “evolve from the lesser to the greater.”
For the purpose of this world is to prove the harm in it, that’s what I always say.
Operation Clusterfuck.