Some people think we should back Assad to eliminate ISIS

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/24/obama-assad-partnership_n_5704531.html

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WASHINGTON -- Two former top military and counterterrorism officials said on Sunday that the United States should be prepared to start working with the very dictator that the Obama administration said must leave office because of the humanitarian atrocities he has committed.

Appearing on ABC's "This Week," General John Allen, who commanded the Afghanistan War, and Richard Clarke, a former top counterterrorism adviser, said that the effort to stem and ultimately kill the Islamic State (ISIS) would require some form of partnership with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Allen was less committal about such a partnership, noting that the Assad government had fed ISIS' rise with its brutal campaign to crack down on insurgents that had radicalized sections of the Sunni population. Still, he conceded, for an operation against ISIS to be successful, it would require a Syria component and an informal, if not entirely unsaid, collaboration with Assad.

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Washington is the proverbial double minded man..unstable in all his ways....or just plain idiotic...Often I think it's just war for wars sake..war keeps the money flowing and politicians able to claim we do this and that to protect Americans...BS  just a whole big pile of BS..