Halting ISIS Would Require Attacks in Syria, Top General Says

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7. Guardian: Former top general calls on Obama to wipe out Isis in wake of Foley killing

John Allen, who commanded Afghanistan war, writes op-ed amid varying US views on how to respond to journalist’s beheading

An influential retired US general has called on Barack Obama to order the destruction the militant group responsible for murdering American journalist James Foley amid conflicting views in the administration on how to respond to the atrocity.

As Obama’s foreign policy team debates expanding its renewed air war in Iraq after the killing of Foley by the Islamic State (Isis), John Allen, a retired marine general who commanded the Afghanistan war from 2011 to 2013, urged Obama to “move quickly to pressure its entire ‘nervous system’, break it up, and destroy its pieces.”

Allen’s argument, presented in an op-ed for the DefenseOne website, echoes remarks by secretary of state John Kerry and comes amid internal dispute in the Obama administration over the future course of its two-week air war in Iraq. Much diplomatic effort is said to be spent broadening and hardening a region-wide effort against Isis, something Allen endorsed, with Turkey and Qatar being a particular near-term focus for Kerry.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/21/general-john-allen-obama-isis-james-foley-killing
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This would be an hilarious farce if it weren't all so serious.

Eliminate ISIS, just like the US military has eliminated the Taliban?

Oh, wait.....

13 years of US military in Afghanistan, and the Taliban still exist and will likely control the country once America leaves.

If ISIS is not the real Islam, then those who do practice the real Islam need to take them out. Saudi Arabia has an air force, Turkey has an air force, Iraq has an air force. If ISIS is a threat to the region, let the countries in the region bomb them to smithereens.

US should collect up all Americans in the embassies and drone bases, and come home from Iraq.

(also posted in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014876595)