Kerry Says Operation to Destroy ISIS 'Can Take a Long Time'

[Purveyor]

Source: ABC NEWS

ABC News(JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia) — Secretary of State John Kerry sat down for a one-on-one with ABC News’ Alex Marquardt in Saudi Arabia Thursday as he works with allies in the fight against extremist militants.

During the interview, Kerry declined to call the offensive against ISIS a war.

“We’re engaged in a counter-terrorism operation of a significant order and counter-terrorism operations can take a long time. They go on. I think war is the wrong reference term with respect to that,” he said.

He also warned that the fight against ISIS may have to be finished by the next administration.

Read more: http://www.mycentraloregon.com/2014/09/11/kerry-says-operation-to-destroy-isis-can-take-a-long-time/

[cilla4progress]

1. WTF

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. you need a translation?

"counter-terrorism operations are and always will be a continuing state, requiring continuous money to fight it.
If we call it a war, people will expect a beginning and an end.
If we call it counter-terrorism operations, we can justify a permanent Patriot Act, a permanent Pentagon budget, and permanent jobs for weapons makers and contractors..
The names and groups of who we are facing in counter-terrorism operations is subject to change,
but counter-terrorism operations WILL go on...and on..and on."

Or, as n2doc's recent toon put it:

[davekriss]

16. You bet!

George Herbet Walker Bush played the terrorist card after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A new enemy was needed to sustain the flow of funds into the oligarchic MIC. Bush called this new enemy, "narco-terrorists". And so it goes (and goes and goes and goes).

[grahamhgreen]

2. How long? How much?

[Kablooie]

4. This time we'll stay til the end.

At least 150 years.

[Downwinder]

5. How are we doing with Joseph Kony and his LRA?

[joshcryer]

6. Just an expansion of the drone war.

Which the American public loves.

[imthevicar]

7. Draft the

Political class' children first!

[Eagle_Eye]

8. Did you say 'Can Take a Long Time' ?

Because there is nothing better for the bottom line than a conflict that takes a long time.

Check your stock portfolios, the following companies will soon be listed as "growth" investments:

Lockheed Martin
Boeing
Raytheon
General Dynamics
Northrop Grumman
United Technologies
L-3 Communications
SAIC3
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Honeywell
Rolls-Royce
Booz Allen Hamilton
Textron
Exelis
GE
Oshkosh
CSC6
URS
DynCorp
ATK
CACI
Harris
Hewlett-Packard
Rockwell Collins
Bechtel
ManTech
General Atomics

[blkmusclmachine]

9. Translation: "We'll stay til we've wrung every penny out of Americans' retirement portfolios."

War = Death = Profit

[Nihil]

10. Politician X Says Operation to Destroy Group Y 'Can Take a Long Time' ...

... and may have to be finished by the next administration.

What a fucking shock.

Especially since the variables "X" & "Y" are constantly being replaced
with slightly different values just to keep the gullible believing in the
needless & bloody process of turning war into profit.

[JoePhilly]

11. If he says it will be quick ... people will be screaming in 1 month.

Less probably.

[former9thward]

24. What if Bush had said it?

What would you be screaming?

[malthaussen]

12. For some reason, this line from "Roads to Moscow" keeps reverberating for me:

"And I wonder when I'll be home again, and the morning answers 'never.'"

-- Mal

[MisterP]

13. "but aren't you glad he didn't lie and promise it'd be a short war?!"

[Marrah_G]

14. But we are BROKE...that's what everyone keeps telling us!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[candelista]

15. Unfortunately, the US public seems to have drunk the Kool-Aid.

http://data-wrapper.s3.amazonaws.com/ooWs4/1/index.html

The government did a much better propaganda job than last year, when they wanted airstrikes against the Assad regime.

[IDemo]

17. If it's not a war,

send the Ferguson and NYPD cops, who are well equipped to deal with police/paramilitary actions.

[J_J_]

21. I will join you [phone] FUCK YOU JOHN KERRY

I always knew that rat bastard was never against the war.

His purposely losing the election allowed Bush to continue 4 more years of war.

Now, he is making sure the war will continue into the next administration.

What an ass!

Dear warmongers Republicans and Democrats-

If you are going to behave this way,

Stop calling yourself Christian/ Catholic !


What part of THOU SHALL NOT KILL

THOU SHALL NOT LIE

THOU SHALL NOT STEAL

Don't you understand?

[J_J_]

19. "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continous"

The Psychosis of Permanent War

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025519533

[J_J_]

20. Don't they know where they are?

They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat

[rgbecker]

22. Yes, they are with the WMD's!

They should have locked him in the room earlier, in 2001.

[quadrature]

23. so it is now OK to use poison gas (Assad and friends), but killing two

journalists sets off a war.

who writes these rules?

[sakabatou]

25. So, another unending war

[roamer65]

26. Sounds like oligarchical collectivism to me. N/t

[neverforget]

27. What does winning look like or how does it end? Does it end? How do we pay for it?

Have any of these questions been asked or answered by the Administration?