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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (940805)	6/16/2016 11:13:40 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Recommended By jlallen locogringo PKRBKR Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574679

>> ISIL not ISIS btw, I make every effort to avoid Obama's NewSpeak. He is a damned liar and an idiot. I don't get sucked in by it. ISIS would not exist today, as a large force, had Obama not screwed up and been so hard headed. That is a fact.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (940805)	6/17/2016 1:32:47 AM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574679

Fact: Obama and crew want Assad gone more than the destruction of ISIS. +++ State Dept Officials Demand US Attack Assad Instead of ISIS in Syria Formal Protest Document Slams Ongoing War Against ISIS by Jason Ditz, June 16, 2016 Print This \| Share This Ongoing fighting between the CIA and the Pentagon over who the US is actually at war with in Syria appears to have dragged the US State Department in as well, with reports emerging that “dozens” of top State officials have signed a document “ protesting” US policy in Syria for being focused on fighting ISIS. Described as the “dissent channel cable,” the document appears to mirror the CIA’s own narrative, which is that in attacking ISIS the US is fighting the wrong war in Syria, and instead demands that the US shift focus entirely to militarily imposing regime change on the Syrian government. Though the State Department document is still secret, it appears to simply echo the CIA’s supposition that ISIS can’t be defeated while Syria has a “weak” government, and that therefore destroying what’s left of Syria’s government might conceivably help. Among the many problems with this strategy is that it is directly in contradiction to the strategy the US has publicly endorsed in recent months, and the one that they got through the UN Security Council, which is that the strategy to defeat ISIS is to unite the Syrian government and the secular rebels. While talks to that effect haven’t gone well, having the US suddenly go off the reservation and launch yet another war inside Syria, this time against the Assad government, would likely cause a massive backlash, not just from Russia, which is backing the government, but from the rest of NATO, which has complained that the reason the talks haven’t worked is that the US has cut them out of the negotiation process and is just arguing with the Russians. Secretary of State John Kerry was leading the charge for a war against Assad years ago, only to have it foiled by Syria agreeing to the demand to destroy all their chemical weapons. At this point, with Russia deeply involved in the war, attacking Assad is all but impossible, meaning the State Department “protest” is mostly meaningless, and simply puts those officials on the record as not being happy with the losing war they’re already fighting.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (940805)	6/17/2016 1:56:38 AM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574679

again you're out of touch +++ CIA Chief Just Confirmed "War on Terror" Has Created A Lot More Terrorists John Brennan tells Senate Intelligence Committee "our efforts have not reduced the group's terrorism capability and global reach" by Andrea Germanos, staff writer CIA director John Brennan testifying Thursday to the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Photo: Screengrab/C-SPAN) Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan said Thursday that, years into the United States' fight against the Islamic State, the terrorist group's reach and power have not been diminished and that it has even more fighters than al-Qaeda had at its height. Speaking to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Brennan said, "Unfortunately, despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group's terrorism capability and global reach. The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses of territory, manpower, and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly." He also said the group is still "a formidable adversary," adding, "The branch in Libya is probably the most developed and the most dangerous." He also projected that it "will intensify its global terror campaign to maintain its dominance of the global terrorism agenda." And, despite the apparent failure of the military strategy, Brennan said "a long and difficult fight" would continue against the group whose number of fighters now "far exceeds what al-Qaeda had at its height." His comments confirm warnings from many on the left that a military strategy to defeat ISIL, or ISIS, as it is also known, would only foment further acts of terrorism. Institute for Policy Studies fellow Phyllis Bennis, for example, warned in 2014, when President Barack Obama said he authorized new U.S. military airstrikes in Iraq to target ISIS, "it should be eminently clear that we cannot bomb Islamist extremists into submission or disappearance. Every bomb recruits more supporters."