talked much about deterrence .. one believed the leak and the time lapse has virtually wiped out the surprise element and the fact that Assad has had time to move his resources around has made any strikes creating a worthwhile deterrence as much more difficult
“The additional time gives Assad the potential advantage of complicating U.S. targeting by surreptitiously moving people or even chemical munitions into them, aiming to create casualties or chemical release as a direct result of U.S. attacks,” said David A. Deptula, a retired three-star Air Force general who planned the American air campaigns in 2001 in Afghanistan and in the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
But General Dempsey told lawmakers on Wednesday that American spy agencies are “keeping up with that movement,” which he said also included prisoners, potentially to be used as human shields, and that all necessary steps would be taken to minimize civilian casualties.
rotfl.....and then they want to destroy our intelligence apparatus ... sheeesh! .. Save us please from these so called progressive civil libertarians... EEEEKS!
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