Thanks for the question. I think that the appropriate way to do this is pretty much whats being done right now actually, and such using airstrikes to limit the freedom of movement and the ability to move oil and smuggle it as easily as isil was able to be for the airstrikes started. Meanwhile, buying time for an advice and assist effort and Capacity Building effort to try to stand up in some cases local Security Forces or the iraqi army to conduct effective operations is insulated to push isil back from the territory is controlling. I appreciate that, i dont mean to cut you off but from 20032011 we spent 24 billion, the United States taxpayer spent 24 billion training 938,000 iraqis how to fight. And to equip them, train them. And who we have 30,000 sunni that are over running the country. As isis gets stronger and stronger, we are back again with this training operation and i just have some misgivings about, you know, whats that saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same
Production you would be familiar with the processes and the targets and things like that . In terms of the military targets . Yeah, youre sitting there, youre fairly comprehensive in this report here, are you in that room is all im asking . We are linked up closely with the Defense Departments in terms of the overall level. But on a scale of one to ten how committed are you to stopping the oil revenues from coming in, the administration, one of ten . I would give that a ten, congressman . Okay, so why didnt you stop it this afternoon . You really want to do it, youre in the room. You can stop it today. You can move 30,000 barrels of oil basically is what the report is saying. That sells anywhere from 25 to 60 a barrel, resulting in 3 4 of a Million Barrels of oil. To move 350 barrels requires trucks. Now the report talks about choking off the funding for insurance. The insurance could cut the insurance off themselves, you dont have to truck one Insurance Company down. It is the trucks
Kuwait as the two jurisdictions in the gulf where additional steps could be taken. Time of the gentleman is expired. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Lynch. Thank you, mr. Chairman, again, mr. Secretary, thanks for your willingness to testify. I just want to make one observation. I do share the frustration that some of my colleagues across the aisle have expressed about staunching the flow of oil and degrading some of the facilities that are currently under the control of isis. But i do want to point out that, for instance, the beiji oil refinery, i dont know, about 75, maybe 150 miles north of baghdad, ive been there a couple of times. It is not really its low tech, but its the largest refinery that they have there in that region. If we had destroyed that a month ago i think the iraq government you know, last week, two weeks ago, the iraqi forces retook that refinery. So now it is pumping oil for the Iraqi Government. Its a key asset, if we had gone in there
U. S. Secretary of state john kerry urged israeli and palestinian leaders to prevent the collapse of peace negotiation and the Israeli Government cancelled the planned release of a group of palestinian prisoners and made the decision after the palestinian renewed efforts at u. N. Correspondent Stephanie Decker is joining us live from jerusalem and a few weeks out from the deadline do you think it was ever a realistic timeline, are the two sides any closer now than when the first round of peace talks some nine months ago . Well, no one one commentator said it looks like they have gone back ten years and i think the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry had the right intention but it was very unrealistic to think in nine months we could overcome miss trust, animosity that stretches back decades. The point that we are at now none of the main issues have been addressed even and its being so difficult. I mean the palestinians will tell you they think the americans are not putting enough press
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