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Obama Wants New ISIS War Plan ASAP -- Eli Lake & Josh Rogin, Daily Beast
Leading U.S. officials now believe that America has to expand its air war against ISIS into Syria, but nobody knows yet how we can do it… or what will happen next.
President Obama wants to decide by the end of the week whether or not his war in Iraq against the Islamic State will expand to the group’s haven in eastern Syria. But nearly everything about the potential military campaign is still in flux, administration officials tell The Daily Beast—from the goals of the effort to the intelligence needed to carry it out.
ISIS’s murder of American photojournalist James Foley and its continued military expansion have pushed the administration into an urgent drive to take action against the Islamic extremists in Syria. Despite the new urgency, the plans for such a strike are far from complete. In a series of high-level meetings Tuesday—including one gathering of the Principals’ Committee, the administration's top national security officials—White House staffers and cabinet secretaries alike struggled to come up with answers to basic questions about the potential strikes. Among the unresolved issues: whether the U.S. has reliable intelligence on ISIS targets in Syria; what the objectives and limits of the strikes would be; and how the administration would defend the action legally, diplomatically, and politically.
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My Comment: For this news to be leaked in the matter that it has tells me that the U.S. intelligence assessment on ISIS/The Islamic State must be incredibly scary. President Obama always takes his time when making a foreign policy decision .... doubly so when it involves the use of U.S. military forces. My guess is that he is being told that the Islamic State/ISIS is growing at an exponential rate, and that as a military force they will be soon be threatening America's closest allies in the region .... in short .... the time for action is NOW!!!!
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