Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has warned that the war would not be easy or brief. AS he has remarked - victory will come only when the mission of degrading, destroying and defeating ISIL is completed.
Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has indicated to the senators that the US was ready to strike the extremists in Syria and it will not be 'shock and awe' because that is not how ISIL is organized – rather, it will be persistent and sustainable.
Similar sentiments were echoed by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond who said the UK Government was doing all it could to save British hostage Alan Henning, and warned it would not be deterred from its goal of "crushing" the Islamic State fighters who were behind his abduction.
ISIS have threatened Britain that Alan Henning, an aid convoy volunteer, would be next to be killed after David Haines. Incidentally, while US Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to drum up support with Middle East and Gulf state allies to show a united front, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has revealed that he had rejected a request from the US to join the fight against IS because Washington's intentions were unclean.
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