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| Senior US commander hints war on ISIL will take 5 decades |
| 2015-07-26 |
| [Iran Press TV] A top US special operations commander suggests that the war to eradicate the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... murderous Moslems may take 50 years. It's a pity Norman Schwarzkopf is dead. Comparing the struggle against the terror group to what he described as the 50-year-long anti-terrorism campaign in Colombia, Head of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Army General Joseph Votel argued Friday before the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that when the ISIL murderous Moslems face strong resistance in one theater of operations, they turn attention to another. "I don't believe there's any one strategy that we are going to apply that is immediately going to change this," Votel said. "It's going to take a long-term approach, understanding what is happening, making smart decisions and continuing to apply pressure -- whether that is military pressure, diplomatic pressure, economic pressure, (or) informational pressure against violent hard boys." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 The Spanish Reconquista lasted what, about 500 years? The Russian one was a couple of centuries. Unfortunately I doubt Twitter twits can take the long view. |
| Posted by: James 2015-07-26 22:21 |
| #10 60 years, if you count the Cold War. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-26 19:35 |
| #9 And WWII lasted how long? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-07-26 19:00 |
| #8 1.3 decades and counting... |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-07-26 15:49 |
| #7 Pappy nailed it. Good ol Woodrow Wilson, progressives, and the 16th & 17th amendments (both huge errors which have made the current situation possible) |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-07-26 14:30 |
| #6 That was closer to a century, but yes - it's an applicable comparison. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-26 09:29 |
| #5 I think he is basing it on how long it took the communist Marxist take over of the USA. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2015-07-26 07:59 |
| #4 A bad boy city-killer could smoke out a lot of shit and perversely clarify things. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-26 07:20 |
| #3 Fuck, we got any Titans left? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-26 07:19 |
| #2 A very costly long-term chess game and milking effort, using diplomacy, drones, hit lists, and surgical strikes requiring unlimited secret budgets, enhanced technology, numerous contracts, and.......need I go continue ? Who could possibly be trusted to undertake such an advanced and involved effort? Obviously not DoD. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-26 06:03 |
| #1 It takes that long because we are not fully engaging the enemy, nor its suypporters (Yes that's YOU Turkey). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-07-26 02:15 |