U.S. coalition warplanes in Syrian airspace after conducting air strikes against ISIS militants. (File photo: Reuters)
Washington Free Beacon: U.S. Continues to Limit Airstrikes Against ISIS Camps
Only 20 camps struck since May.
President Obama said for the first time this week that U.S. and allied airstrikes are targeting ISIS training camps in Iraq and Syria, but new figures reveal only 20 camps were hit in recent months.
Since May, U.S. and allied air forces conducted 17 attacks hitting a total of 20 camps in Syria and Iraq, according to the U.S. military command in Iraq.
Critics in the Obama administration and U.S. military say ISIS has been operating more than 60 training camps since 2014 in areas of Syria and Iraq. The camps are said to be producing an estimated 1,000 fighters a month.
The officials voiced frustrations that ISIS training camps are not being vigorously struck.
“These camps give them a continuous, fresh flow fighters,” said one official, “and little is being done to destroy them.”
WNU Editor: Civilian casualties .... it is all about "rules of engagement" and civilian casualties. In the meantime thousands of recruits are trained to wage carnage and mayhem.
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Are not most of the casualties we see civilian casualties and are they not on purpose like those at San Bernadino and Paris?
So we walk on egg shells while they are a bull in a china shop. Makes sense if you are a liberal and Obama was the most liberal of senators. Obama is not like a good wine.
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