Trump's Secret Plan to Defeat ISIS Looks Like Obama's

[Jimbo101]

NBC News

Political Wire

Donald Trump promised during the campaign to implement a "secret plan" to defeat ISIS, including a pledge to "bomb the hell out of" the terror group in Iraq and Syria.

Now, the Pentagon has given him a secret plan, but it turns out to be a little more than an "intensification" of the same slow and steady approach that Trump derided under the Obama administration, two senior officials who have reviewed the document told NBC News.

The plan calls for continued bombing; beefing up support and assistance to local forces to retake its Iraqi stronghold Mosul and ultimately the ISIS capital of Raqqa in Syria; drying up ISIS's sources of income; and stabilizing the areas retaken from ISIS, the officials say.

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Everybody! Please see this!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8779311

[Wounded Bear]

2. Yeah well, but Obama didn't know what he was doing...

There has never in history been a fast way to stop an insurgency like that. Well, maybe if you use the old Roman method, just go in and kill them all. Unfortunately, we don't live in the ancient world where word of something like that would be slow to get out, if at all. In modern times, everything you do is on FB and Twitter in real time.

Rash actions tend to increase recruiting for the other side.

[Thor_MN]

3. I thought he was going to defeat ISIS in 30 days?

Isn't he getting tired of failing yet?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. The difference is that Trump will give even less of a toss about civilian casualties

as that January Yemen raid showed. This will mean more anti-American feeling among the survivors, or relatives, and will keep the terrorist aspect going long after ISIS's control of territory has gone.

[joshcryer]

5. Wait until he reintroduces TPP without environmental or labor protections.