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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Without US presence in Syria, ISIS can re-emerge in 6-12 months: general
2019-12-13
[Rudaw] The US drawdown in Syria means the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group (ISIS) could re-emerge within six to 12 months, General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned a congressional committee in Washington on Wednesday.

Milley and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper both briefed the Armed Services Committee on US goals and plans in the Middle East to ensure national security and the enduring defeat of ISIS.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  Sounds like someone else's problem now.
Posted by: bbrewer126   2019-12-13 20:33  

#5  Let Gyorgyi do it.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-13 16:27  

#4  Let Putin deal with them.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-12-13 14:42  

#3  All I can think of is the scene in Apocalypse Now when Lance says "We have to go back for the dog!"
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-13 10:56  

#2  Secure our interests in Syria? What interests? We don't have any interests.

Russia can take care of what's left of Isis. They're not a threat. This general is just hyping them to try to justify more war.

This from the same incompetent fools who can't win in Afghanistan. Fuck them.
Posted by: Herb McCoy    2019-12-13 05:05  

#1  Good. Let them fight.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-13 03:13  

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