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Current Events => Terrorism In the US and Around the World => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on September 12, 2014, 06:01:42 AM
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Got this off of the Daily Caller site. Pretty much steel-on-target.
Pentagon Official: Obama’s ISIS Strategy Is Doomed To Fail
3:02 PM 09/11/2014
Joseph Miller is the pen name for a ranking Department of Defense official with a background in U.S. special operations and combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has worked in strategic planning.
After weeks of back and forth, on Wednesday night President Barack Obama outlined his strategy for “degrading†and “destroying†the Islamic State, and on the 13th anniversary of 9/11, Americans were able to finally wake up in a country that had a strategy for the most recent Islamist threat.
The problem is that the strategy — to provide logistical support for Iraqi forces, limited air strikes, and a strong Free Syrian Army — is a foolish strategy that is unlikely to succeed.
The president’s strategy calls for U.S. air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria in support of Iraqi army forces and the Free Syrian Army rebels who are fighting the Islamic State on the ground. Obama made it clear that the U.S. military commitment will be limited to air strikes, as he will not order U.S. ground forces into either Iraq or Syria.
Instead of ground forces, however, the president said that the United States will increase training and logistical support for those armies on the ground, but herein lies a critical flaw: The Iraqis have not proven to be a reliable partner in the war on terrorism. And this, despite ten years of U.S. military training and equipment provided by the United States.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/11/pentagon-official-obamas-isis-strategy-is-doomed-to-fail/#ixzz3D5uJ2AWw
He'd be one to know . . . :fuelfire:
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Oh, there are a LOT more reasons than that, and it doesn't take any access to classified intel reports to see them.
The Peshmerga isn't going to fight for anything that isn't ethnic Kurdish territory, and expecting any kind of decisive results from some combination of the Iraqi Army and the Free Syrian Army is just ludicrous.
Relying on the Free Syrian Army in particular has to be making Putin's day, now he knows he can **** with us the way we ****ed with the Soviets in Afghanistan, trickling in some special operators and equipment to his nominal ally, Assad, to burn up all the resources we want to waste on the FSA.
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...and their back up plan after everything fails, "Oh well. It's all Bush's fault anyway."
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Of course it's going to fail. It's Obama. He's like King Midas except, when The Empty Suit touches something, it doesn't turn to gold. It turns to shit.
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Of course it's going to fail. It's Obama. He's like King Midas except, when The Empty Suit touches something, it doesn't turn to gold. It turns to shit.
:yeahthat:
He does have a remarkable record of being a world class ****up.
Corpse-man indeed. :loser:
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Even if the plan was brilliant, it would fail...because Obama is in charge