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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI’m watching the press conference at the Pentagon in which they’re telling us about last night’s attacks on Syria. Admiral John Kirby says that they struck targets in the oil fields in eastern Syria and that they hit ISIS headquarters. They also claim that two fighters from Bahrain appeared over Syria in the second and third waves of the attacks. That all of the munitions were guided munitions.<\/p>\n
They say that the first wave included Tomahawk missiles from the USS Philippine Sea. The Pentagon admits that he hit some residential areas but that the ISIS folks were hunkered down among civilians. The media asked the general if they were going to required “boots on the ground”, his answer was that he believes the force is “appropriately sized” for current operations.<\/p>\n
Kirby promised that this is “just the beginning” of airstrikes. The Pentagon says that their goal is to “disrupt” ISIS’ operations in Iraq.<\/p>\n
Q: “Do you think you’ve had some success?”<\/p>\n
A: Something about their goal is to “give the Iraqis some space…to get on the offensive…we did several strikes in support of the peshmerga.”<\/p>\n
“The radar response from Syria was passive.”<\/p>\n
“ISIS is very well-funded and adaptive…they will change and adapt to these airstrikes…they are already doing that. We’ve seen signs of that already.”<\/p>\n
“You are seeing the beginnings of a sustained campaign.”<\/p>\n
He wouldn’t comment on who is doing the target selection when asked if the president or Secretary of Defense was involved in that process.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon is unaware of any confirmation of civilian casualties, despite ISIS claims.<\/p>\n
Prayers out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"