Feinstein says Islamic State stronger, criticizes U.S. approach
Source: Raw Story
Leading Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday the United States is not doing enough to fight Islamic State, and the group is gaining strength outside Iraq and Syria.
Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said Secretary of State John Kerry gave the panel a more comprehensive picture last week of the U.S. strategy to combat Islamic State, including talks in Vienna to find a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis.
However, she said on CBS, I dont think the approach is sufficient to the job.
Feinstein said President Barack Obamas decision to send 50 special forces to Syria will not solve the problem and advocated a larger, more specific special operations plan. We need to be aggressive now, she told Face the Nation.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/feinstein-says-islamic-state-stronger-criticizes-u-s-approach/
It never ends with this woman! She won't be happy until the US sends troops in there. She is the biggest war monger ever. Sorry for the hyperbole but this is the exact same road she took before the AUMF voting. There are not enough words for how much I despise her. (She is one of my Senators. I stopped voting for her in primaries years ago, but no one has been able to defeat her there.)
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)Or are you referring to the part where it says "Feinstein said President Barack Obamas decision to send 50 special forces to Syria will not solve the problem and advocated a larger, more specific special operations plan." ?
That does not have to mean more troops, it can also be be done in other ways such as increasing intelligence gathering efforts in the middle east as well trying to cut off the flow of money to the group as well as removing its leaders and by that i mean working with the local governments to arrest and imprison them whenever possible and keeping drone usage as an option of last resort.
catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)She hasn't said so far that we need to send more troops per se. But this has been her MO in the past. When multi-thousands of her constituents contacted her before the Iraq War, asking her to vote against the AUMF, she said that she had inside info and that it was necessary to go into that area. She also admitted that had she listened to what her constituents wanted she would have voted against it.
I am just gun shy and fully expect her to be one that pushes the scare tactics to ramp up our involvement on the ground. All of the alternative options you mention would be excellent choices to try before more military involvement on our part. I just have no faith in her, it's deja vu for me.
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)but otherwise I would advise just waiting and seeing what she actually does do if anything.
For all we know she could just be saying this just for the free PR it provides her.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Why the fuck is she still in the Senate?
The only reason she has had any kind of political career in the first place is she was mayor of SF when two of the most sensational episodes in the city's history occurred - the Jim Jones shootout and mass suicides in Guyana, followed a couple weeks later by the shootings of Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk by Dan White.
Nuh Uh
(47 posts)Dianne Feinstein has been in the Senate long enough to know you don't run around on Sunday morning giving talking points to the Republican Party. She's useless to the Democratic Party and useless to California. I have never liked her and never will.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)When can I vote her out!
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)They wont be happy until we get lots and lots of ground troops in there.
It'll start with embedded troops, and then after the first major casualties, they'll be of course the cry for vengeance, and they'll be an escalation because the Iraqi troops are incompetent, and it'll take real Americans to defeat this threat. The other allies will also be incompetent and dragging their feet, and so it'll require us to get the job done.
Whether it be Vietnam or Iraq, get ready for more of the same with the Feinstein's of the world who will always want more. Nobody ever mentions how all this is going to be paid for, but I guarantee you it won't be with tax increases to the wealthy, but it'll be either some bogus use tax like a gas increase that hits the poorest hardest, or it'll be the old mantra about cutting entitlements.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)lark
(23,105 posts)She's always grubbing for more MIC profits that she can steer to her husband, any pretext will do.