The Patriot Post® · Kerry: We Could Wipe Out ISIL but Don't Really Feel Like It

Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States has the ability to wipe ISIL off the map, but the Obama administration won’t do so. Whatever happened to Barack Obama’s degrade and ultimately destroy strategy? “We have that capacity,” Kerry said, “but we’re not asking to do that, nor are they [other Middle Eastern countries] asking us to do that, because I think they understand that the implications of that would be actually to aid in the recruitment to create a bigger problem than we face today. … If it’s just us, that’s how they grow, and that’s what they want, and we’re not getting suckered into that.” While the U.S. pursues a wait and restraint strategy to the conflict, ISIL continues to invent new ways of killing people in their little country of horrors. More…