The U.S. House, led by Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville, overwhelmingly passed legislation that would require U.S. officials to certify that each refugee did not pose a threat before allowing them into the country.
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Tolerating ISIS is also a awful way to hope for the fall of the Assad regime. I think the Russians were embarrassed, frankly, by their plane getting shot down. Ten months ago, 17 people were killed in Paris by Islamists’ attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices. On the evening of November 13, ISIS-inspired militants went on a rampage in Paris, carrying out a series of devastating coordinated attacks at a sports arena, a theater, and on various streets in the “City of Lights” that left 130 dead and almost 400 injured. Its threat to attack Washington DC should not be ignored by the U.S. authorities.
While the USA military still controlled the country, radical Sunnis came together under the banner of al-Qaida in Iraq in a force arrayed against American forces, moderate Sunnis and the Shiites majority.
David Cameron knows he has to make the case for bombing ISIS in Syria.
The ghastly killings and slaughter of humans caused revulsion and universal condemnation. Sadly, such sentiments have not brought any change in its behaviour. There still would be the problem of finding those who could govern these regions in a just and democratic manner, after Assad and ISIS are removed he said.
But how can such a platform be created in a region that has been unable to overcome a 1,300-year schism in Islam, the Kurdish drive to create a country that the ethnic group has never had and the attendant complications mixed in by a plethora of other religious and ethnic minorities. It pretends to be the agent of the coming apocalypse which perhaps accounts for its obsession with bloodshed.
“The SAS will use the same strategy in Syria that it used in Afghanistan, when they effectively destroyed the Taliban’s middle order”, a senior military source was quoted as saying. And it must not be permitted any space in Libya or Yemen. A peshmerga-led attack in northern Iraq two weeks ago seized the village of Sinjar, which sits astride a key highway and supply line for Islamic State forces.
And there is the temptation to use too much of the power at your disposal, like the USA using a cruise missile to “take out” a Taliban leader travelling in a auto through an Afghan market square. If we have learned anything from 15 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s that local people and nations have to secure their own communities…But we can and should support local and regional ground forces in carrying out this mission.
Some Western nations have begun to respond. The Iraqis have had mixed results; the Syrian military seems to be picking up since the Russian air power assisted them. There are more than enough aircraft carriers in the Gulf to decimate the group.
Around 40 members of the SAS are already supporting US Special Forces in Syria but that number is to be doubled after defence chiefs ordered the head of Britain’s special forces to focus all efforts against ISIS jihadis in Iraq and Syria. Saudi Arabia opposes ISIS but is deeply suspicious of Iran. No doubt, this will involve former Iraqi and Syrian Baath Party officials; and there may still be some moderate Syrian opposition leaders. The Americans have proved that this strategy can work.
On Friday, the French suggested for the first time publicly that ground troops who would complement global airstrikes aimed at destroying the Islamic State might include government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Defections of ISIS fighters is a metric that is closely watched by U.S. military personnel and the Obama administration. In other words, the coalition should make the political future of Syria the second priority, which can be negotiated after ISIS has been crushed. There must be a more serious effort.
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