{"id":78135,"date":"2015-12-07T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/?p=78135"},"modified":"2023-04-03T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T08:10:08","slug":"americas-leading-soldier-says-we-have-not-contained-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2015\/12\/07\/americas-leading-soldier-says-we-have-not-contained-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Leading Soldier says \u201cWe have NOT Contained ISIS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"author\">By Onan Coca<\/span> \/ <time datetime=\"2015-12-05\">5 December 2015<\/time><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey! Remember this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gaining strength. What is true is that, from the start our goal has been first to contain, and&nbsp;we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq. And in Syria it \u2014 they\u2019ll come in, they\u2019ll leave. But you don\u2019t see this systematic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We\u2019ve made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters and part of our goal has to be to recruit more effective Sunni partners in Iraq to really go on offense rather than simply engage in defense.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama Before ISIS Attack on Paris: ISIS is &#039;Contained&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MkJnQAfuG78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly for Democrats, on Tuesday the nation\u2019s most important soldier, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, absolutely destroyed President Obama\u2019s ISIS narrative when he told Congress that <strong><em>\u201cWe have not contained ISIS\u2026\u201d!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cWe have NOT contained ISIL\u2026 Strategically they have spread since 2010\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh. My. Goodness. Here\u2019s what we learned from General Dunford on Tuesday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ISIS is not contained.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are at war. No, we\u2019re not.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For much of our fight against ISIS we did not have a strategy to defeat them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The current military approved strategy is a recent development.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are in deep doo-doo.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dunford: &#039;We have not contained ISIL&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w0WYLmfAFII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(That last one is my own personal summary of General Dunford\u2019s answers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter was, of course, abuzz in the aftermath of Dunford\u2019s damning testimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything the Obama administration touches falls apart \u2013 so our failing efforts against ISIS shouldn\u2019t surprise us. Whether it\u2019s the economy, our healthcare or our foreign policy\u2026 Obama and the Democrats have a knack for screwing things up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onan Coca \/ 5 December 2015 Hey! Remember this? I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gaining strength. What is true is that, from the start our goal has been first to contain, and&nbsp;we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq. And in Syria it \u2014 they\u2019ll come in, they\u2019ll leave. But you don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":71837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[145,9480],"class_list":["post-78135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-barack-obama","tag-isil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}