Wednesday, June 22, 2016

U.S. commanders now openly challenging ISIS strategy of outgoing Obama & ISIS Goes Global

Via Billy

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 isis mideast

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Rifts have emerged between U.S. military leaders and the Obama White House on Washington’s future role in Libya, with the generals questioning the White House’s argument that the recent success against Islamic State shows Libya can go it alone in the fight against terrorism, without direct U.S. assistance.

Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the White House’s pick to lead U.S. Africa Command, called for increased American military action in Libya to ensure the Islamic State, or ISIS or ISIL, does not reconstitute itself in the country as pressure ramps up against its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

Gen. Waldhauser told a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday that U.S. military planners were drafting up battle plans for airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya, Reuters reported. The fledgling unity government in Tripoli has enjoyed surprising success in recent weeks in a campaign against the Islamic State’s stronghold in the coastal city of Sirte.

But rules of engagement for U.S. forces in Libya, which require White House approval for any offensive operations in the country, have hamstrung American military planners in the region, according to the report.

5 comments:

  1. There is a communist coup
    occurring in the House chambers.

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  2. Hmm, some of these Military Commanders will be the ones to oust our pretender in chief? The .Mils types are surely pissed at the bozo iff'n ya read the Army Times and other military magazines, the underlying current is no happy with nappy...

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    1. the underlying current is no happy with nappy...

      The young ones who are now joining must be oblivious to the circumstances.

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