Major Gen. Bob Scales: It May Take Years To Defeat ISIS

General Scales says a “slow, methodical” multi-pronged strategy is needed in order to fully root out the terror group from Syria, and it will be bloody

SCALES: “This is not an overwhelming campaign where the enemy is taken to its knees by firepower. No. This is a slow and methodical campaign. Few years ago, the president made a joke about 'whack-a-mole' tactics in Afghanistan. Well, in a way, this is 'whack-a-mole,' but the moles are important. If you take the moles down one at the time and you destroy them - like the house of cards, eventually you pull the right ones out and that house of cards collapses. But there is not anything that can be done overnight. It needs to be done by highly skilled professionals perhaps with the assistance of great Britain and Australia. No one else can do this like we can do it. And it may take months, years, who knows, perhaps even a decade. But the only way to take care of ISIS is to kill it. No diplomacy, no sanctions, no political maneuvering is going to remove this organization. It's going to be a plain old-fashioned, bloody military campaign to destroy them.”
 

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