Top US general in the Mideast says ISIS in Iraq and Syria still long-term threat

So, what to do?

The General said:
"He said a solution must come from a joint effort by diplomatic, security and humanitarian organizations."

Will those organizations need protection? Who will provide that?

Tnis will be the Biden Administration

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for posting the perspective of Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command.
BLUF this is diplomatic, humanitarian and internal security issue that is best solved within the Arab world community.
I see limited role for US conventional forces in the middle east - embassy security and support in the gulf states which support our strategic and regional capabilities.
I see DHS and intel agencies interdicting homegrown terrorist efforts including sleeper cells.
I concur with his assessment
1. 'that there is no military means of solving the problem of Mideast refugees and internally displaced persons, or IDPs, who await repatriation or resettlement and represent what he called an unfortunate byproduct of armed conflicts.'
2. “Today, across vast swaths of Syria and Iraq, the systemic indoctrination of IDP and refugee camp populations who are hostage to the receipt of ISIS ideology is an alarming development with potentially generational implications,” McKenzie said in remarks to the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. He said a solution must come from a joint effort by diplomatic, security and humanitarian organizations."
3. 'President Donald Trump has pushed for a full U.S. withdrawal from Syria, saying the conflict there was not worth U.S. sacrifices, although there currently are at least several hundred U.S. troops there working with local forces to solidify gains against ISIS. The U.S. also has about 3,000 troops still in Iraq; on Tuesday the Pentagon announced that Trump had ordered a drawdown to 2,500 in Iraq with no change for Syria.'

Ironically the progressive democrats are the ones pushing for US to focus on defeating ISIS:
1. 'President-elect Joe Biden has long argued for bringing most U.S. troops home from the wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan while narrowly focusing the U.S. military on defeating ISIS and al-Qaida.'
2. 'Over the past six years, starting with former President Barack Obama’s decision in 2014 to return U.S. troops to Iraq to halt an advance of Islamic State forces into Iraq from Syria, the U.S. has led an effort to militarily defeat the extremist group in both countries. But the group has not been extinguished, and McKenzie said it has not abandoned its aspiration to recreate a caliphate and attack the West.'
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