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(29,876 posts) Fri Dec 11, 2015, 07:40 PM Dec 2015

Obama Going To Pentagon To Discuss Anti-IS Campaign

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will look for ways to gather more intelligence and strike key Islamic State targets when he visits the Pentagon next week.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he believes the U.S. will be broadening its campaign and building more capabilities to fight IS in the coming weeks.

As part of that effort, Obama will meet top military leaders Monday.

It is the second time Obama has called a meeting of his National Security Council at the Pentagon this year to talk about operations in Iraq and Syria.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_ISLAMIC_STATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-11-17-35-52

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Obama Going To Pentagon To Discuss Anti-IS Campaign (Original Post) Purveyor Dec 2015 OP

This will be interesting. 105 views and no responses 'til now. I know one group snappyturtle Dec 2015 #1

"This will be interesting. 105 views and no responses 'til now." l.o.o.s.e.e-2 Dec 2015 #3

k&r for broader exposure uppityperson Dec 2015 #2

snappyturtle

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1. This will be interesting. 105 views and no responses 'til now. I know one group

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Dec 11, 2015, 08:09 PM

Dec 2015

that will be happy...MIC. I don't know about anybody else but I'm wreary of war in foreign lands.

l.o.o.s.e.e-2

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3. "This will be interesting. 105 views and no responses 'til now."

Reply to snappyturtle (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 01:50 AM

Dec 2015

One post before me now and I will respond...

Lack of response, snappyturtle, I don't believe is indicative of your post's import... wow, there's just a whole lot of ambivalence among us Democrats right now about how to feel about Obama (Real Change, Change Has Come, etc.)

You're correct about the "MIC".

SoS Clinton (Hillary’s war: How conviction replaced skepticism in Libya intervention https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html) turned out to be bad news for our President who wanted to "limit" war to drones (The Assassination Complex https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/)

Now, the prospect of having our young women and men die - sorry, excuse me - SpecOPs/boots on the ground, is more real than ever.

Pakistan just tested a potential nuclear missile (http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/pak-test-fires-nuclear-capable-shaheen-iii-ballistic-missile/)... Turkey's F-16 "ambushed" Russia's Su-24 according to Pierre Sprey/Team F-16 progenitor (http://harpers.org/blog/2015/12/mountain-ambush/)... Putin: I Hope We Don't Need to Go Nuclear (http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/putin-reminder-cruise-missiles-used-against-isil-could-be-equipped-nuclear/ri11769)

Hillary's 3 a.m. commercial from two presidential elections ago portending the soon-to-be future?

Difficult to contemplate therefore, sadly I believe, a bit of cognitive dissonance among us Democrats.

Our family hopes for peace.

uppityperson

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Fri Dec 11, 2015, 08:23 PM

Dec 2015

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