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Obama Must Decide Endgame In Syria

President Barack Obama is meeting his top national security officials at the CIA today to come up with a plan to deprive the Islamic State in Syria of land and power. The endgame in Syria is approaching as the fragile peace talks continue. President Obama must decide to either have a military plan for the total defeat of ISIS in the region, thus giving Kurds more power and angering the Turks, or to maintain the current Status quo. That is empowering Sunnis to rise up against other Sunnis who became radicalized and joined ISIS, to kill Shiites (Alawites), moderate Sunnis, Kurds, Syrians and others. If the latter, then the de-radicalization of the extreme Sunnis who became ISIL would be left for another time, which would suit Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the CIA. Stars And Stripes reports: The meeting of the National Security Council Principals Committee brings together some of the president’s top cabinet members, most of whom have been pressing Obama to allow them to do more to fight the Islamic State in Syria. According to some reports, Secretary of State John Kerry had pestered the president so many times to ramp up the military mission that the president stipulated [...]