Friday, September 12, 2014

U.S. Secretary Of State John Kerry: U.S. Not At War With The Islamic State



Kerry: U.S. Not At War With ISIS -- CNN

(CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday would not say the United States is at war with ISIS, telling CNN in an interview that the administration's strategy includes "many different things that one doesn't think of normally in context of war."

"What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counterterrorism operation," Kerry told CNN's Elise Labott in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "It's going to go on for some period of time. If somebody wants to think about it as being a war with ISIL, they can do so, but the fact is it's a major counterterrorism operation that will have many different moving parts."

Kerry made a distinction between ISIS and terror groups operating in Somalia and Yemen.

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More News On U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's Comments That The U.S. Is Not At War With ISIS

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Obama's ISIS Offensive Is Not 'War,' Kerry Insists -- ABC News
Kerry: U.S. Not At War With ISIS, "It's A Major Counter-Terrorism Operation" -- Real Clear Politics
Kerry: ISIS not a 'war' -- The Hill
Kerry Says The Fight Against ISIS In Iraq and Syria Is Not A War -- IBTimes
John Kerry: ISIS Action Is Not a War, It’s Counter-Terrorism -- Time
John Kerry Says U.S. Is Not at War With ISIS Because Words Have No Meaning -- Asawin Suebsaeng, Daily Beast

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

You bomb people are you not in a state of conflict?

If you punch a person several times, it is not a fight?

War News Updates Editor said...

Aizino .... this is why I love reading comments .... the common sense and the humor cracks me up all the time.