A Republican President Means American Boots On The Ground In The Middle East – Again
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Thursday night’s Republican debate at the University of Miami revealed one startling thing: all four Republican candidates for president would put more boots on the ground to fight ISIS…
Former FBI Supervisory special agent Ali Soufan, a leading expert on Islamic terrorism, previously told the Huffington Post UK that the militant group is trying “to suck the west” into a new war in Iraq. “Then they’ll be not only the regional bad boy, but also the bad boy for the global jihadi movement. They can then claim they are in an international war – a modern day Crusade – against all the countries coming to fight them,” said Soufan, who led the FBI’s investigation of Al Qaeda’s bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and now works on finding counterterrorism strategies.
“The military campaign is only a tool, it’s not a strategy. The solution is not only by drones. It’s not only by airstrikes,” he said. “The solution is a regional solution that [is about] defeating the ideology that promotes extremist groups like ISIS, defeating the incubating factors that promote extremism, and [making] countries in the region.. understand they cannot use extremism in their proxy wars against one other…”
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