Obama at the Pentagon: No end to ISIS war

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“Endless war for endless profits at least for bankers and arms makers, listen to USMC Gen. Smedley Butlers speech “War Is A Racket” to see what I mean. Of course it also justifies endless scaremongering and an ever increasing police state here at home too.”  Admin

The US government will continue its military intervention in Iraq and Syria indefinitely while ramping up its “counterterrorism” operations both overseas and within the US, President Barack Obama made clear in public remarks at the Pentagon Monday.

Flanked by a phalanx of military officials and commanders, Obama outlined a perspective of endless war in Iraq, Syria and beyond in a speech delivered after closed-door meetings with top military officials.

Nearly a year after its launch, Operation “Inherent Resolve,” originally presented to the American people as a temporary and limited action, has become an open-ended war stretching across large parts of Iraq and Syria.

The Iraq-Syria war, which has already involved some 5,000 combat sorties by US and allied war planes and the return to Iraq of thousands of US troops, is part of what Obama called a “generational struggle” against “violent extremism,” to be waged without any timetable or geographical limitation.

“This will not be quick. This is a long-term campaign,” Obama said.

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