Obama’s flawed Syria strategy will require additional force to secure country
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Channel: Senator Mike Lee · 2015 · News & Politics
Senator Lee questioned senior defense leaders this morning about counter-ISIS strategy and U.S. involvement in the Syrian Civil War. President Obama’s strategy calls for a political settlement to this war, which General Lloyd Austin, Commander of U.S. Central Command, revealed would require much more pressure to force Assad and his supporters to capitulate, and additional force to secure Syria from other fighters. The Obama administration should note one of the main lessons from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan- It took only months to topple authoritarian regimes, but years of deadly sacrifice and hundreds of billions of dollars attempting to secure these countries and install new leadership. The strategic planning for such complicated and costly policies should never be an afterthought.
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