Isis strategy. The week got off to a rocky start after joint chiefs chairman dempsey told the panel that he wouldnt rule out advising the president to use Ground Forces in the fight if necessary. A comment that send the administration scrambling. President obama doubling down on his no boots on the ground promise. As youre commander in chief, i will not commit you and rest of the armed forces to fighting another ground war in iraq. Joining the panel this week, deputy editor, Dan Henninger and Brett Stevens and washington columnist, kim strassele. Lets start with you, are the generals and Martin Dempsey wasnt the only one who spoke out, are they sending the president a message that they want the ability to use Ground Troops if need be . Well former marine general said, you never tell your enemies what you will what you will not do. They are also saying that given the extent of isis control from western syria all the way into iraq, its going to be hard to do this through air power alone.
Combat troops fighting on foreign soil. This Counter Terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady relentless effort to take out isil wherever they exist using air power and support from Partner Forces on ground. Welcome to the journal editorial report. That was president obama once laying out his plan for taking on the Islamic State. President vowed to degrade and ultimately destroy the terror group through a Coalition Led air campaign and support from Iraqi Kurdish and Syrian Opposition forces on the ground. Its an effort the administration acknowledges could take years. So is it the right approach . Can the president be trusted to follow through . Lets ask wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan and brett stevens. Youve been urging the United States to act against isis for a long time. Now that the president finally has, pick up good things first about his approach. What do you like about the strategy . Very effective against an enemy tanks and rmerred equipment that
Welcome to the journal editorial report. Im paul gigot. Isis extended its bloody reach into libya with the beheadings of 21 egyptian christians. As the Obama White House hosted a three day summit on countering what they call violent extremism the president and his staff once again refused to use the term islamic to describe the threat, a distinction they say is necessary in part to deprive terror groups of legitimacy. Al qaeda and isil and groups like it are desperate for legitimacy. They try to portray themselves as religious leaders holy warriors in defense of islam. We must never accept the premise that they put forth. Because it is a lie. Nor should we grant these terrorists the religious legitimacy that they seek. They are not religious leaders. They are terrorists. Joining the panel this week wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, Editorial Board member and global view columnist Brett Stevens author of the new book america in retreat. Dorothy the president s summit was
He said on friday, i dont know if i will have a perry mason moment where he sets back and said, i did it, youve got me. But the president said he was going to bring it up. He seemed to be talking from a perspective of, after the indictment of these 12 russian intelligence agents in the molar investigation, knew that there was some there. Today, he seemed to indicate that there wasnt any there. Hes developed an inroad with putin, and he does not want to spoil that with a question about whether or not he believes putin. It was interesting what putin said we had common entrance, better to focus on those points of convergence rather than divergence so that they could Work Together on some of the issues. We did not get very far on crimea and whether or not the president asked Vladimir Putin or told him to get out of crime crimea, putin seems to believe the invasion was perfectly legal. He said they held a referendum on it. He knows President Trumps position on it. Nuclear weapons is another
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