Council on Foreign Relations American proposes to send ten thousand troops to Iraq
Council on Foreign Relations American proposes to send ten thousand troops to Iraq
22-08-2014 01:43 AM
Fallujah News / Baghdad … Barack Obama is keen always to choose his words carefully and as ‘Islamic state’ that the organization ‘has no place in the twenty-century atheist’, the American president puts the issue of the fight against radical jihadists in the forefront of his priorities is that it also raises questions about his military strategy in Iraq.
said Obama, speaking from the island of Martha’s Vineyard (north-east), where he is spending summer vacation that the beheading of American journalist James Foley in the hands of the elements of the organization ‘Islamic state’ in crime ‘shocked the conscience of the whole world, “enhances the design of the United States in the fight against’ this kind of ideologies devastating ‘.
confirms the American president a few days ago that the fight against ‘Islamic state’ which has dominated since June on a swathe of Iraqi territory, but it is the battle of long-term and that the air strikes is not confined to any specific timetable.
also stresses Washington repeatedly on the encouraging results have been achieved in close cooperation with the Kurdish forces after more than ten days of air strikes and refers to the first losses incurred by the organization, such as the restoration of the Mosul Dam him.
said Pentagon spokesman Vice Admiral John Kirby said ‘the Islamic state has strengths and weaknesses’, adding’ They are strong, they have the resources. They are well organized for the terrorist network. But in contrast, are not giants, which we’ve seen. I have these strikes were damaged and abilities. And therefore can not say that they are invincible. ”
warned Stephen Biddle, who specializes in defense issues at the Council on Foreign Relations that the success of the strikes, the first after two-and-a-half on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq should not obscure the difficulties that will appear later.
said ‘in this kind of war , strikes first always have immediate effect because it allows the destruction of targets are not protected or little protection ‘, explaining that after adapts fighters with strikes and distribute their equipment military and mingle on the civilian population, the situation changed dramatically.
he said, speaking to Agence France Presse, ‘This does not mean that strikes become useless but declining effectiveness, “stressing the need to develop military and political strategy medium term.
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