US News Obama will strike ISIS "wherever they exist," including Syria

[FireCat]

President Obama on Wednesday announced a comprehensive strategy to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, or ISIL) that will broaden the U.S. military role to include airstrikes in Syria but not put any American combat troops on the ground in the region.

Until now, U.S. airpower was only deployed in Iraq for the sake of protecting U.S. assets and personnel there and helping prevent a humanitarian disaster as the Islamic militants targeted religious minority populations inside the country. In order to systematically degrade the group's capabilities, however, senior administration officials said the U.S. would be lifting those restrictions and hitting ISIS targets inside Syria where necessary.

"Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy," Mr. Obama said. "I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven."

Obama will strike ISIS "wherever they exist," including Syria

After weeks of questions and criticism, Obama lays out the U.S. strategy to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS

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[Varine]

The core principle used to be to get out of the war.

 

[Accname]

I wanna see that happen. Could be fun.

@varyne: The core principle is to do whatever the fuck the majority of voters want. They wanna see blood, they get their damned blood.

 

[jonas]

The core principle used to be to get out of the war.

And the US spent some effort to demilitarize Iraq. Now they brought the guns right back (into the hands of the PKK, which is a terrorist organization according to the US gov.).
Either way, maybe there is some guilt involved? People trying to make up for their mistakes by repeating them...

IS clearly has to be stopped and the people have to be helped, but IS will not be stopped by guns alone (Hamas also has not been stopped by guns so far, and Israel is doing everything they can to kill off as many of them as they can). Poverty and uneducation are the breeding ground of terrorism/dogmatism. As long as that isn't fixed, the middle east will never diffuse.

 

[Accname]

Excellent!
So we simply kill all the poor and uneducated people of the world and eternal piece shall be ours!
You fail math => you fail life!

 

[jonas]

Excellent!
So we simply kill all the poor and uneducated people of the world and eternal piece shall be ours!
You fail math => you fail life!

Denying the antecedens? DIE!
Misspelling peace? DIE DIE DIE!

 

[Varine]

Dude there is no guilt. Just perpetuation of the military industrial complex and retaining a divide between people.

 

[jonas]

Dude there is no guilt. Just perpetuation of the military industrial complex and retaining a divide between people.

I am talking about the general population. I recall that when the US first approached Afghanistan and subsequently Iraq, there were many critical voices in, e.g., Europe, Russia... In the newspapers, from my European friends, ... Now there is no such thing, instead people claim that the weapons that are sent are not good enough etc.

 

[Varine]

Maybe if we stopped bombing them then would reduce the desire of terror?