Sunday, September 14, 2014

What is the Plan?

Thomas Friedman's editorial "Obama's Strategy for Fighting ISIS" in today's New York Times requires that the administration do some out of the box thinking.  First and foremost is to get comfortable with the idea that Syria is to be split up.  Use the Sunni refugee's in Jordan as the basis of a new moderate government in Exile.  After some preparation and with the help of a combined Jordanian Army and U. S. Air Force this new political entity invades southern Syria and defends and polices the area.  Hopefully this new entity develops in a positive way so that it could be the basis of a local Syrian force similar to the pesh merga in Kurdistan to displace Assad back to his Alawite region and then begin the slow slog northward to counter ISIS.  In the meantime U.S. Air power should knock out the oil fields in the north funding ISIS's operations.

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