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Iraq
Coalition 'needs 2 years to kick out IS from Iraq'
2015-01-23
[ARABNEWS] Top officials from 21 countries kicked off talks in London on Thursday on pushing back 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) holy warriors in Iraq and Syria and tackling the growing threat of homegrown holy warriors in Europe.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said before the meeting that the task of pushing the IS holy warriors back would be slow.

"This isn't going to be done in three months or six months. It's going to take a year, two years to push ISIL (IS) back out of Iraq but we are doing the things that need to be done in order to turn the tide," Hammond told Sky News.

US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
and Hammond co-hosted the talks.

It will be the first time the US-led coalition has met since this month's attacks in Gay Paree against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
and a supermarket that left 17 people dead.

"Terrorists want to drive us apart, but in fact their actions have had the opposite effect, they're bringing us together," Kerry said ahead of the talks.

He also called for international action on "the root causes, so that terrorist appeals fall flat and foreign recruits are no longer enticed to go to a place and wreak havoc on it."

A US state department official said imported muscle would be a "real focus" of the meeting and that an expert working group would be formed on sharing information to stop holy warriors traveling.

Posted by:Fred

#9  I would not assume any sort of victory, i fear it is unlikely, probably just be a higher profile muzz mess.

Unless of course we get a high profile massacre of meaningful people, then maybe we have a chance to start ending this shit once and for all, like the chance we forwent on September 12.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-01-23 16:52  

#8  How long it takes depends upon how serious the coalition of 21 is about getting the job done. As Pappy said, keep the human rights and environmentalists out of it. Keep the attorneys out as well so they don't define strategies, tactics and ROEs.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-01-23 15:34  

#7  Six years, if you factor in the human rights folks and environmental impact thingies.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-01-23 12:09  

#6  Wut, no tin point plan?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-01-23 10:20  

#5  ...TRANSLATION: "The White House wants to declare victory and start getting out in time for the '16 elections. It better happen."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2015-01-23 10:14  

#4  There were 'root causes' for the Germans and Japanese behaviors (circa 1938) which didn't matter when some people just needed killing.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-01-23 09:48  

#3  He also called for international action on "the root causes, so that terrorist appeals fall flat and foreign recruits are no longer enticed to go to a place and wreak havoc on it."

Somehow, methinks our version of "root causes" and the international definition of "root causes" are going to be opposite.
Posted by: BA   2015-01-23 09:13  

#2  And it took only 3 years to kick the Nazis out of Western Europe AND the Japanese out of the South Pacific once we got started.

I don't think we're trying too hard for some reason.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-01-23 07:50  

#1  And then ISIS will just pop up in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Libya, North Africa..... France, England....
Posted by: airandee   2015-01-23 06:51  

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