Include isil or assad, as you stated in your testimony and that relying on moderate rebels to defeat them both and usher in a political settlement, will the assad regime being supported by iran and russia as they are and with isil being so well financed, how will a group of rebels be able to defeat them both . And what would they need in order to accomplish that goal . The administration doesnt have a comprehensive policy to deal with all of the threats in iraq and syria and iran, nor does it seem to want one. These arent realistic plans that can truly destroy isil, can defeat al news ra and defeat the assad regime. We havent even begun the train and equip mission and were about a year away from even standing that minimal force up, if ever at all. Is that the case . Where are we with that mission, sir . In my testimony, i did focus on the concern about the militias and Prime Ministers batty to reign those in, all armed groups within the structures of state. I also focussed on the desir
But its got to be led by the commanderinchief. Frankly, thats how the system works. Thats how its worked every time. Now, id like to switch gears real quickly. U. S. Back. Syrian rebels linked to al qaeda. Time is running out for obama and syria. Westernbacked Syrian Rebels are in danger of collapse before help arrives. All of these are wellknown media experts and they are on the verge of collapse and they are getting beaten very badly. One of the major reasons they are getting beaten very badly is because theyre subject to bombing and air attacks from Bashar Al Assad. So i guess my question again is and by the way, ambassador James Jeffrey says time isnt on our time. Reconsider the no combat formations on the ground decision because you may have to either renege on that or you may have to fall off your very Important Mission of destroying isis. Theres a gap between the two. Ambassador ford, isis is not something which drone strikes or f16 strikes is going to contain because the Islami
Trained or will it be a year from march, 2016 before we have those 5,000 fighters that we send back to syria. Its 5,000 trained per year. And part of the reason is because of the vetting standards were very being careful about this. Were not sitting on our hands. Excuse me, ambassador excuse me, mr. Ambassador. Answer the question. Is it 5,000 in 2016, in march, where we hope thats our plan to have them trained by then . The training we hope will begin in march. We hope but it will take a year to train 5,000 people. Yes, thats right. So march of 2016. Then we have a plan, then we have fighters, then we send them to syria. Theres no telling what isis can do in that year and however ever months it is. Is the United States have some other Strategic Plan other than arming these folks that arent going to show up until 2016, dropping bombs, that are marginal whether theyve been successful, and helping with military aid to some of these coalition countries. Is there a Strategic Plan overall t
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Friendly. Backslapper. That is not his style. He is direct and he will tell you what he feels and what he thinks but he is going to do it on his terms about what he wants to say and how he wants to say it. It is very important, he is a very precise man. This was a precision race that he ran. You guys wrote an article back in november. One of the things you have any is that he could have spent as much as 50 million . He was preparing for that and by the end of it, with the outside groups, and probably exceeded that on the republican side. There was a republican outside group, kentuckians for strong leadership, which ended up pummeling the airwaves with attack ads against Alison Grimes, the democrat, and matt bevin, the republican. What that allowed mcconnell to do was run a very a series of very focused ads that highlighted the Positive Side of Mitch Mcconnell. This is a guy who had a lousy Approval Rating back home, low 40s to high 30s for much of the campaign, and you realize you need