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Syrian Peshmerga fighters outside Mosul Aug. 18, preparing for an offensive to retake Iraq s second-largest city from ISIS.Yunus Keles / Anadolu Agency / Getty ImagesBy Mark ThompsonAugust 31, 2016 5:56 PM EDTItrsquo a most peculiar war: rarely has the U.S. been killing so many while risking so few. The U.S. is beating ISIS handily, judging by Vietnamrsquo body-count metric. The total number of ISIS battlefield deaths claimed by U.S. officials has jumped, from 6,000 in January 2015 to 45,000 last monthmdash;a bloodbat stanley cup h for an enemy force estimated to number about 30,000. Three U.S. troops h stanley cup ave died. Thatrsquo an eye-watering U.S.-to-ISIS kill ratio of 15,000-to-1. Wersquo;ve got good momentum going, General Joseph Votel, chief of U.S. Central Command, who is overseeing the wa stanley cup r, said Tuesday. We are really into the heart of the caliphate.But some of his predecessors disagree. James Mattis, a retired Marine general who commanded Central Command from 2010 to 2013, says the war on ISIS is unguided by a sustained policy or sound strategy is] replete with half-measures. Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine four-star who held the same post from 1997 to 2000, says he doesnrsquo;t think he could do so today. I don ;t want to be part of a strategy that in my heart of hearts I know is going to fail, he says. It a bad strategy, it the wrong strategy, and maybe I would tell the Pr Ngew Congress Won t Debate War on ISIS Until Next Year
Activists organized by MoveOn protest Rep. George Santos on April 12, 2023 in Queens, New YorkCraig Barritt鈥擥etty air force 1 Images for MoveOnBy Eric CortellessaApril 14, 2023 7:00 AM EDTLast jordan November, there was never the red wave across the country that many forecasters predicted. But there was a smaller one in the af1 blue state of New York, where Republicans flipped four House seats, allowing Kevin McCarthy to wrest control of the chamber gavel from Nancy Pelosi.With a year and a half until the next election, both parties are eyeing the Empire State as the most important battleground in the fight for House control. Across the country, there are 18 congressional districts held by Republicans that President Joe Biden won in 2020. Six of them are in New York. Itrsquo a scenario that is setting up New York to be one of the most significantmdash;and likely one of the most expensivemdash wing states for down-ballot races nationwide.It is paramount that we hold those seats, Rep. Elise Stefanik, the House GOP Conference Chair, tells TIME. This week, she launched a new initiative, the New York Battleground Fund, to protect the statersquo Republican incumbents and target the Democrats she says are vulnerable. We are really ground zero politically for maintaining and expanding the House, adds Stefanik, who represents a largely rural upstate New York district.Her involvement in the effort is significant. The third-ranking House Republican an