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| United States Says It Is 'Ready' for Any Retaliatory Attack by Hizbullah |
| 2013-09-05 |
| [An Nahar] The United States announced on Wednesday that it is ready to respond to any possible attack launched by Hizbullah as a retaliation to the anticipated U.S.-led operation against the Syrian regime. "Our Navy is ready to respond to any retaliatory attack by Hizbullah," U.S. army chief General Martin Dempsey said during a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs. Dempsey added: "Our embassies are also fully protected against any possible attack by the party." "There are conventional risks of retaliation, plus asymmetric attacks via Hizbullah. Even cyber attacks." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Bet Kerry through his medals at Dempsey in that meeting. That would show him. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-09-05 14:35 |
| #3 So I guess Dempsey musta got his "mind right"? 6/18/13 Flash-forward to this past Wednesday. At a principals meeting in the White House situation room, Secretary of State John Kerry began arguing, vociferously, for immediate U.S. airstrikes against airfields under the control of Bashar al-AssadÂ’s Syrian regime -- specifically, those fields it has used to launch chemical weapons raids against rebel forces. It was at this point that the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the usually mild-mannered Army General Martin Dempsey, spoke up, loudly. According to several sources, Dempsey threw a series of brushback pitches at Kerry, demanding to know just exactly what the post-strike plan would be and pointing out that the State Department didnÂ’t fully grasp the complexity of such an operation. Dempsey informed Kerry that the Air Force could not simply drop a few bombs, or fire a few missiles, at targets inside Syria: To be safe, the U.S. would have to neutralize SyriaÂ’s integrated air-defense system, an operation that would require 700 or more sorties. At a time when the U.S. military is exhausted, and when sequestration is ripping into the Pentagon budget, Dempsey is said to have argued that a demand by the State Department for precipitous military action in a murky civil war wasnÂ’t welcome. Officials with knowledge of the meeting say that Kerry gave as good as he got, and that the discussion didnÂ’t reach aneurysm-producing levels. But it was, in diplomatic parlance, a full and frank vetting of the profound differences between State and Defense on Syria. Dempsey was adamant: Without much of an entrance strategy, without anything resembling an exit strategy, and without even a clear-eyed understanding of the consequences of an American airstrike, the Pentagon would be extremely reluctant to get behind KerryÂ’s plan. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-09-05 02:14 |
| #2 Especially as such attack will be directed against you know who. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-09-05 01:38 |
| #1 Dempsey added: "Our embassies are also fully protected against any possible attack by the party." I hope those words don't come back in a week to bite you in the ass. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-09-05 01:38 |