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very few syrians are going to go fight isil and not turn their attention to the butcher of damascus, the person who killed 250,000, 400,000 of their family. this whole syrian strategy is flawed. the cease-fire is an opportunity for assad and russia to retrench. here's what's going to happen: we're going to have a cease-fire hopefully some of the humanitarian aid will get to aleppo. but as senator mccain said, when it's all said and done, they're going to gobble up more territory. and this idea of the united states partnering with russia to go after the al-nusra group that changed their name, to me, is very dangerous. our military is very reluctant to share with the russian military targeting. how we know where people are at. sharing information with the russians is a very dangerous thing to do in syria because their goal is not just destroy radical islamic groups. their goal is to keep their puppet assad in power. so this whole idea of a joint operation center with the united states and russia will focus their attention on al-nusra elements is doomed to fail because in the eyes of as
very few syrians are going to go fight isil and not turn their attention to the butcher of damascus, the person who killed 250,000, 400,000 of their family. this whole syrian strategy is flawed. the cease-fire is an opportunity for assad and russia to retrench. here's what's going to happen: we're going to have a cease-fire hopefully some of the humanitarian aid will get to aleppo. but as senator mccain said, when it's all said and done, they're going to gobble up more territory. and this idea...
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these are crimes against humanity to the longer the assad regime remains entrenched in damascus the longer isil remains active in the region and the more hopeless and more susceptible are vulnerable populations following extremism and more strained our governments in jordan and lebanon to respond to these pressures. our risk is an entire generation of children in the region that have only known war and governments and some governments who want to stay with them but have been unsuccessful. it risk is an entire generation of children who only know refugee camps that don't have access to clean water schools and employment opportunities. this situation cannot continue. the u.s. must provide more decisive leadership to protect the civilian population. thank you mr. chairman. sin i appreciate your comments. i think this is what we have been saying since about 2011. my comments about secretary kerry being a sympathetic berry are not negative towards him. he is out there without the ability to do diplomacy because everyone knows there's going to be no backup effort in the event's diplomacy fails w
these are crimes against humanity to the longer the assad regime remains entrenched in damascus the longer isil remains active in the region and the more hopeless and more susceptible are vulnerable populations following extremism and more strained our governments in jordan and lebanon to respond to these pressures. our risk is an entire generation of children in the region that have only known war and governments and some governments who want to stay with them but have been unsuccessful. it...
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Sep 27, 2016
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the region want two things, the destruction of isil, the removal of assad who has been the butcher of damascus. we're not providing the second. the russians and iranians are all in behind assad. we have abandoned the people who have joined our cause years ago, four years ago assad was on the ropes. obama blinked. the rest is history. but going forward, if we don't have a different ground component in syria, we'll never destroy isil and hold the territory. we'll never end the war without putting military pressure on assad. that's going to require regional commitment with an american component. if you don't do that, another 9/11 is coming here because they have the ability to plan and project force. you've seen it in pairs and other places. i am not talking about one or two people. i am talking about a group of people that can do a lot of damage to the united states. every day that we let syria get worse, every day isil enjoys the ability to operate, the longer it takes to get them destroyed, the more at risk we are. so this strategy won't work. secretary clinton's approach is no different than
the region want two things, the destruction of isil, the removal of assad who has been the butcher of damascus. we're not providing the second. the russians and iranians are all in behind assad. we have abandoned the people who have joined our cause years ago, four years ago assad was on the ropes. obama blinked. the rest is history. but going forward, if we don't have a different ground component in syria, we'll never destroy isil and hold the territory. we'll never end the war without putting...
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jordan, you could go to a secondary school in jerusalem and get your university degree in cairo or damascus. that is how it used to function. then came the first world war and the division of the middle east into little states. imperial civil servants, how did you draw the borders of iraq? the civil servant in question said with a stick in the sand. that is how we did it. now we are witnessing a new imperial process carried out by this empire. of re-dividing the middle east and a more reactionary fashion. the invasion of iraq. what did it effectively do? by destroying the previous state completely, something they didn't do in japan after the second world war, something they didn't do in italy after the second world war when 60% to 70% of fascist personnel in the armed forces, the police, the judiciary were retained, they didn't even do fully in germany, in west germany, 20% to 30% including the chiefs of the intelligence services of the third reich were retained by the united states to fight the new global war, but iraq, completely different, destroyed every single remnant of the old states
jordan, you could go to a secondary school in jerusalem and get your university degree in cairo or damascus. that is how it used to function. then came the first world war and the division of the middle east into little states. imperial civil servants, how did you draw the borders of iraq? the civil servant in question said with a stick in the sand. that is how we did it. now we are witnessing a new imperial process carried out by this empire. of re-dividing the middle east and a more...
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e crim the longer assad remains entrenched in damascus and thenc longer isil and nusra front remain active in the region, the more depraved this situation becomes, the more hopeless are innocent civilians, the more susceptible are vulnerable populations to violent extremism, and the more strained are governments in jordan and lebanon to respond to these pressures. at risk is an entire generation of children in the region who have only known war and friendly governments who want to standemt within the been unsuccessful. at risk is an entire generation of children who will only know refugee camps, who do not have access to clean water, healthcare, school, and employment opportunities. this situation cannot continue. the u.s. must provide more decisive leadership to protect the civilian population.. >> i appreciate your comments. i think this is what we've been saying since the about 2011. my comments about secretary kerry being a sympathetic figure really are not negative towards them. keys out of their without the ability to do diplomacy because everyone knows there's going to be no backup
e crim the longer assad remains entrenched in damascus and thenc longer isil and nusra front remain active in the region, the more depraved this situation becomes, the more hopeless are innocent civilians, the more susceptible are vulnerable populations to violent extremism, and the more strained are governments in jordan and lebanon to respond to these pressures. at risk is an entire generation of children in the region who have only known war and friendly governments who want to standemt...
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president canceled airstrikes against a side who had unleashed searing gas on his own people outside damascus and continues this use of barrel bombs on civilians. this demonstration of weakness by the present left a vacuum that was quickly seized by president vladimir putin. we are now faced with a quagmire. his stunning remark that there is no ultimate military victory allows the reality of the obama foreign-policy that has ignored and belittled the advice for leaders in the department of defense. to add insult to injury, the president issued a memo yesterday ordering you and general dunford to consider climate change during a military planning process. last weekend we dealt with multiple terrorist attacks on our shores, last night we heard the isil may have launched a chemical attack on our troops, it boggles the mind that the president would issue such an order during this critical time in our history, 400,000 civilian deaths in syria, i wonder what the carbon footprint of these barrel bombs would've been that we could've prevented had we acted decisively. mr. sec., i have the highest rega
president canceled airstrikes against a side who had unleashed searing gas on his own people outside damascus and continues this use of barrel bombs on civilians. this demonstration of weakness by the present left a vacuum that was quickly seized by president vladimir putin. we are now faced with a quagmire. his stunning remark that there is no ultimate military victory allows the reality of the obama foreign-policy that has ignored and belittled the advice for leaders in the department of...