In a Christmas Day interview, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the command of US-led coalition forces in Iraq, faulting the Iraqi military for denying that the Mosul offensive was paused, insisting that “people need to rest” and that the offensive would resume soon.
Townsend also provided an estimate on the overall war, saying it’s going as well as could be expected, and that it’d probably be “another two years of hard work” before ISIS is really defeated in Iraq and Syria, saying that he didn’t want to put a specific timeline on the war.
Overall timelines are largely meaningless at this point, since Pentagon officials have indicated the troops are going to stay in Iraq even after ISIS is defeated, meaning they can call “mission accomplished” whenever they want without taking any real action.
That he’s putting that date two years out, even as officials insist the war is going well, reflects just how much progress in Mosul has stalled. This likely also is why he called out the Iraqi military for disputing his “the offensive is paused” excuse for the invasion not making any progress in over a week.
He may have to rest. A retirement.
Ridiculous. This baloney is due to the fact that the US & Friends are propping up ISIS and not seriously fighting them…
And in two years, they’ll say two more years, and two years after that, they’ll say two more years, and two years after that, they’ll say two more years, and two years after that, they’ll say two more years, and two years after that, they’ll say two more years, and two years after that, they’ll say two more years.
After all these years of Afghanistan, Iraq, the 9/11 false flag and the GWOT, when will you finally figure out that this is an Orwellian con job and you are being played for suckers while they ride they gravy train???
US to Iraqi puppets: “don’t attack ISIS”.
Iraqi puppets: “ok, give us another billion dollars”.
Iraq and the US are failed nations…we NOT LONGER WIN WARS…but worse we keep fighting wars WE NEVER COULD WIN. Perpetual wars for the MIC…we are getting screwed by DOD and WH.
Or for however long we need ISIS to justify high taxes and ever-increasing amounts of money being thrown at the military to solve the problems we create.
Hard to defeat them when we are supplying them. Might be the perfect situation from the eyes of the Merchants of Death, but its a hard way to win a war.
“Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Confirmed evidence’ US-led coalition supports ISIS & other terrorists in Syria” …. https://www.rt.com/news/371965-erdogan-us-coalition-isis/