US commander: Mosul and Raqqa should be retaken in 6 months
With IED’s, traps, snipers and tunnels galore, is it possible that this US Commander is a little too optimistic?
We all know full well that ISIS is a bunch of sadistic super crazed zealots hell bent on world domination. I feel that discretion would be most definitely be the better part of valor here when dealing with religious mass murdering fanatics. I long for the day that radical Islam is no more, as do many of us. But I fear that that day may not come during my lifetime.
“The top U.S. commander in Iraq says he expects to retake Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria from the Islamic State group within the next six months and the fight for western Mosul to begin in days.
On a tour north of Baghdad Wednesday, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend said “within the next six months I think we’ll see both (the Mosul and Raqqa campaigns) conclude.” “
Will the commander be proven right? Only time and a shit ton of daesh ass kicking will tell.