Obama's 'Legacy' - Fight against IS Could Take 'Generation or More', Says U.S. Envoy.(Naharnet).
The Islamic State group is a "global threat" which will
take a generation or more to defeat, Washington's envoy for the U.S.-led
coalition fighting the jihadists said Wednesday.
Despite "strategic momentum" against IS -- or Daesh as
he called it -- General John Allen conceded that the fight would
continue for several years in a keynote speech to the U.S.-Islamic World
Forum in Doha, Qatar.
And he added that if IS was not defeated it could "wreak havoc on the progress of humanity".
"This will be a long campaign," he said.
"Defeating Daesh's ideology will likely take a generation or more. But we can and we must rise to this challenge.
"In an age when we are more interconnected that at any other time in human history, Daesh is a global threat."
In a wide-ranging speech, Allen added that IS also poses a new type of threat because of its "depravity".
"As someone who has spent nearly four decades as a
United States marine, I have come closer than many to the reality of
inhumanity.
"But I have never seen before the kinds of depravity and
brutality in this region that ISIL represents and, in fact, that ISIL
celebrates," he added, using an alternative acronym for IS.
Allen was speaking the day after attending talks in Paris with ministers from around 20 coalition countries.
The meeting followed the fall of the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's largest province Anbar, to IS.
That loss has been described as the worst defeat for the coalition since it formed nearly a year ago.
Hmmm.......Obama: June 2014 "The World Is Less Violent Than It Has Ever Been"
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