U.S. Special Operations Command commander Gen. Joseph Votel answers a question at the Aspen Security Forum on July 24, 2015. Aspen institute
The US war to destroy the Islamic State could take 50 years, US Army General Joseph Votel, the head of the Special Operations Command (SOCOM), told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, Department of Defense News reported.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — When the Islamic State is blocked by strong resistance in one theater of operations, it turns its attention to another, Votel explained.
“I don’t believe there’s any one strategy that we are going to apply that is immediately going to change this,” Votel said on Friday according to a report in the News. “It’s going to take a long-term approach.”
Votel compared the struggle against the Islamic State to the 50-year-long campaign that the nation of Columbia had been forced to wage against terrorism, according to the report.
Earlier in July 2015, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter praised the Special Operations Command as the “tip of the spear” of the faster, more agile armed forces the United States would need to carry out its security commitments in the coming decades.
Update: Special Ops General: ISIS Leader Preparing for Own Demise -- ABC News
WNU Editor: A part of me is wondering if he is too optimistic in his assessment .... there is also a real possibility that they (i.e. the Islamic State) may actually win this war, and be able to control for (God only knows how long) a good part of the Middle East and North Africa. Hmmmm .... I am willing to bet that no one has even brought up that possibility .... yet.
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