The poll also reveals deep pessimism about USA prospects for success in Afghanistan. And I think what someone said earlier today is exactly correct, which is – we’re just trying to run out the clock.
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Royce called US airstrikes “anemic”, noting that the USA launched 100 airstrikes in October while the Russians launched 800.
Obama came under fire in June of this year when he publicly admitted at a meeting of the G7 nations in Germany that, “We don’t have a complete strategy” for defeating Islamic State.
Almost 4 million Syrians have become refugees and at least 7.6 million have been internally displaced, according to United Nations figures.
But in terms of destroying ISIS outright – the supreme USA objective – Wood said that 50 Special Operations personnel won’t do much in the short term.
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland told the committee that Russian Federation is “hemorrhaging money” in the fight, spending $2 million to $4 million a day on military operations, at a time that the country is suffering from an economic downturn.
Syria’s state news agency and activists say government troops have wrested control from Islamic State militants of a major road linking the contested northern province of Aleppo with the country’s central provinces.
“The troops have to fall in on a political plan”, Moulton said.
It is unclear if plans for a new Syrian constitution are in accordance with the rebels’ goals. The USA and its allies hope to convince Russian Federation that a diplomatic solution to the conflict is preferable to their costly military engagement, Nuland said.
The two testified Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee – where both Democrats and Republicans are critical of the administration.
“What would positive cooperation by Russian Federation look like?” His critics include both those who believe he’s betrayed his pledge to keep USA troops out of combat in Iraq and Syria, and those who argue exactly the opposite: that Obama is pursuing half-measures that put US troops at risk but are too insignificant to make a decisive difference. Sen.
Obama has also been reluctant to commit USA troops into another Middle Eastern adventure.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said the Obama administration is leaving the Syrian crisis for the next administration to solve.
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His congressional critics, mostly Republican lawmakers, and a few of the party’s presidential contenders looking to succeed him say that his campaign against the IS represents too weak a response.
