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| US to Increase Support for Syrian "Moderate Opposition" |
| 2015-07-09 |
[ALMANAR.LB] US President Barack ObamaRepublicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... pledged to increase his country's support for what he called "the moderate opposition in Syria" on Monday and said the United States needed to do more at home to prevent attacks and combat efforts of the so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group to recruit followers. Obama, speaking during a visit to the Pentagon, noted the difficulty of preventing small-scale attacks by "lone wolves" within the US homeland despite success at preventing large attacks since that of Sept. 11, 2001 on New York and Washington. "We're going to have to pick up our game to prevent these attacks," he said. Obama said there were no current plans to send additional US troops overseas and repeated that the fight against ISIL would not be quick. He said US training of Iraqi forces had been ramped up after being too slow. The US military said that Iraq had not provided enough recruits to meet US training targets. It has also acknowledged that recruiting and training Syrians to fight ISIL was moving more slowly than expected, partly because of problems with vetting volunteers. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 US President Barack Obama pledged to increase his country's support for what he called "the moderate opposition in Syria" One lie, a canard and a case of cognitive dissonance. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-09 12:37 |
| #1 Yeah... cuz this worked soooo well the last 14 times we have tried it. I think he just wants to get more weapons to get to ISIS. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-07-09 10:19 |