US President Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesnât. But she is a typical white person...
wants his advisers to review the administration's Syria policy after determining it may not be possible to defeat Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
holy warriors without removing Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, CNN reported on Wednesday.
| Eh? Surely they have that backward -- only by leaving Assad in place can ISIS be defeated. |
"The president has asked us to look again at how this fits together," CNN quoted one bigwig as saying. "The long-running Syria problem is now compounded by the reality that to genuinely defeat ISIL, we need not only a defeat in Iraq but a defeat in Syria." ISIL is another acronym for Islamic State.
A White House National Security Council official told Rooters: "The strategy with respect to Syria has not changed."
| A foolish consistency... |
"While the immediate focus remains to drive ISIL out of Iraq, we and coalition partners will continue to strike at ISIL in Syria to deny them safe haven and to disrupt their ability to project power," the official added.
| January 2017 cannot come soon enough. |