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Tierra_y_Libertad

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Mon Sep 22, 2014, 10:46 AM Sep 2014

Tony Blair: 'Ground troops are necessary to fight Islamic State - diplomacy will not defeat them'

It's a long article and one where sentences become paragraphs. But, he makes it clear that we should all be utterly terrified of the newest, hairiest, scariest, bogeyman since Godzilla.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/tony-blair-ground-troops-are-necessary-to-fight-islamic-state--diplomacy-will-not-defeat-them-9747714.html

“We have to fight groups like Isis,” he wrote. “There can be an abundance of diplomacy, all necessary relief of humanitarian suffering, every conceivable statement of condemnation which we can muster, but unless they're accompanied by physical combat, we will mitigate the problem but not overcome it…

“You cannot uproot this extremism unless you go to where it originates and fight it.”

“Without a comprehensive strategy, we will face a future marked by conflict and instability across swathes of the world and major acts of terrorism in our own lands,” he wrote.

“Action against ISIS alone will not suffice. We need to recognise the global nature of the problem, the scale of it.”

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Tony Blair: 'Ground troops are necessary to fight Islamic State - diplomacy will not defeat them' (Original Post) Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 OP
Does he say he's going to be wearing a pair of boots that are on the ground there? n/t deutsey Sep 2014 #1
Tell the Saudis. oldandhappy Sep 2014 #2
He should be first in line dhol82 Sep 2014 #3
Ditto! TheNutcracker Sep 2014 #5
Why do they find it valuable to talk to the people who caused this mess still_one Sep 2014 #4
+1,000 n/t malaise Sep 2014 #7
Why isn't he at the Hague? WhiteTara Sep 2014 #6
Bush's poodle is yapping again. Dems to Win Sep 2014 #8
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