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| Dempsey: If Baghdad fails in ISIS fight US can work with other partners |
| 2015-06-26 |
| [RUDAW.NET] The Pentagon has a contingency plan to work with ground partners should united Iraqi forces fail against the 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.... , US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin E. Dempsey said Wednesday. "We're also continually assessing our plans and our underlying assumptions. Our current plan contributes to an outcome in which Iraq will be able to achieve a government that represents all sects of the Iraqi people," Dempsey told Rudaw via a Facebook town hall Q&A. "If that assumption does not prove to be true, then we will adapt, with the cooperation of our coalition and network of ground partners, to protect our security interests," he added. But, but, but General, some parts of the world simply do not jehah democracy as we know it. Why not look after our 'security interests' NOW and forget about political nation building ? Dempsey's words mirror those of US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who alluded last week during testimony before a House Armed Services Committee hearing that Iraq could fragment into Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite states. "What if a multi-sectarian Iraq turns out not to be possible?" asked Carter, "That is an important part of our strategy now on the ground." "If that government can't do what it's supposed to do, then we will still try to enable local ground forces, if they're willing to partner with us, to keep stability in Iraq, but there will not be a single state of Iraq," he said. The Pentagon has currently deployed over 3,500 military advisors and trainers to assist Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga and Sunni tribal forces in an effort to turn the tide against the Islamic State. Dempsey said that US strategy is to focus on the ISIS threat at the moment. "For now, we remain clear eyed about the nature of the threat and continue to impose heavy costs on ISIL," he said, adding that the Islamist Death Eaters can be defeated. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 IMO Artic + JCoS Chair Gen. Dempsey read, IRAN. There's Iran rivals the KSA + espec TURKEY, but Erdogan + Turkish Armed Forces thus far have failed to bust a move Regionally or Trans-Regionally like Iran has. Prolly safe to safe TURKEY = ANKARA is still debating its "Manifest Destiny" in this Age of US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO Globalism + US-N-Only-US "Retreat/Fallback is World Peace", BUT IRAN ISN'T WAITING. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-06-26 21:32 |
| #3 er, at "Dempsey." |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-06-26 20:02 |
| #2 You lost me a "Dempsey." |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-06-26 20:01 |
| #1 Let me spell it for you K-U-R-D-S |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-26 18:50 |