(TRUNEWS) The Obama administration has announced that within weeks, a new military campaign to fight ISIS could begin.
The New York Times reported that Obama administration officials anticipate that the intervention would be conducted in conjunction with a coalition of European allies, to include British, French, and Italian forces.
On January 22nd, U.S. Department of Defense’s media service DoD News reported that Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with his French counterpart to discuss the potential joint military operation. In his conversation with Gen. Pierre de Villiers, Gen. Dunford said, “it’s fair to say were looking to take decisive military action against ISIL [in Libya] in conjunction with a legitimate political process.”
On the same day, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said to CNBC from the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, that “we’re looking for opportunities to do more, and there will be boots on the ground — I want to be clear about that — but it’s a strategic question, whether you are enabling local forces to take and hold, rather than trying to substitute for them.”
US Defense Department spokesperson Peter Cook however contradicted that statement today when he said during a public briefing on the issue that “sending US troops to Libya is not something that is under consideration,” and that instead “we are going to continue to assess the threat in Libya and respond accordingly, and Secretary [Carter] will continue to have those conversations with the President’s [Obama] national security team.”
This recent push for western intervention in Libya began to gain steam in early January, when Libya’s National Oil Corp issued a ‘cry for help’ through their spokesman, Ibrahim Jadran, the militia leader who controls the forces guarding the nations oil.
In the plea, Jadran asked the international community to pray for him in the aftermath of the latest attack by ISIS which left 7 guards dead and 100,000’s barrels of oil burning. In a statement Jadran said “we are helpless and not being able to do anything against this deliberate destruction to the oil installations. NOC urges all faithful and honorable people of this homeland to hurry to rescue what is left from our resources before it is too late.”
Rick Wiles of TRUNEWS commented that it was utterly despicable for America, “to invade Libya under the grounds of fighting the very force they help create” and reiterated that the United States was directly responsible for turning the country into a failed state, after leading a NATO coalition to topple the former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi.
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