CNN: Report: Syria's al-Nusra 'more dangerous' than ISIS
Washington (CNN)Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, is a greater threat to the United States in the long term than is ISIS, making the United States' current single-minded focus on the latter group misguided, a new report is charging.
Al-Nusra is "much more dangerous to the U.S. than the ISIS model in the long run," according to the authors of a report labeling both groups "existential" threats. The report was released last week by the Institute for the Study of War and American Enterprise Institute.
The report criticizes the administration's ISIS-centric strategy, saying, "Any strategy that leaves Jabhat al-Nusra in place will fail to secure the American homeland."
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WNU Editor: The U.N. sees both groups equally dangerous (see above video) .... Syria talks to seek ceasefire, excluding ISIL and Nusra (Al Jazeera).
5 comments:
WNU Editor,
But,but,but Petraeus said they were our BFF's:
http://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2015/09/03/petraeus-us-can-work-with-al-nusra-members-against-isis
And he wasn't alone:
http://attwiw.com/2015/06/02/making-your-biases-plain-to-see/
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/the-empty-critiques-of-obamas-mideast-policy/379433/
Jay, that's like, so last year.
RRH,
Technically, 6 months ago,
http://www.juancole.com/2015/09/years-israel-tempted.html
But you are right, thinking like that is so 2015.
Senator McCain won't buy it.
"It is heresy to say so in hyper-capitalist Trumpland, but everybody might have been better off if Reagan had just left the Communists in Afghanistan alone."
No $#'+. I thought that after being there for about two weeks. We are seeing the same thing emerge, in my opinion, regarding the Kurds/PKK, Marxists/communists/socialists are always a bigger threat than fascists of any stripe.
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