No "Complete Strategy" for Training Iraqis to fight ISIS

[libertybele]

Good op-ed piece. Meanwhile, Barry just ordered 450 additional troops into Iraq.

Obama: Sure, there’s no ‘complete strategy’ for training Iraqis to fight ISIS

Let’s go through a timeline, shall we? It was September 2014 - nine months ago - when ISIS beheaded James Foley and released a video of the barbaric murder to the world. But even before that, ISIS was well on its way to overrunning much of Iraq. In response to these events, President Obama declared that under no circumstances would U.S. ground troops be involved with fighting ISIS, but not to worry. We would provide air support for Iraqi troops and others in the region, and would also train these troops.

So nine months later, with ISIS having overrun both Mosul and Ramadi and remaining at Baghdad’s doorstep, how are we coming on that training? Yeeeaaahhh . . . about that:

    President Obama took heat Monday for admitting he doesn’t yet have a “complete strategy” in hand for training Iraqis to fight the Islamic State—months into the coordinated campaign to defeat the deadly terrorist network.

    “When a finalized plan is presented to me by the Pentagon, then I will share it with the American people,” Obama said, adding, “We don’t yet have a complete strategy.”

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said in a statement: “It is no surprise this administration does not have a ‘complete strategy’ for training Iraqis to fight ISIS. What is surprising is that the president admitted it.”

The president addressed the ISIS fight during a press conference on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Germany. He appeared to be speaking specifically to a new strategy for accelerating the training and equipping of Iraqi security forces. “We’re reviewing a range of plans for how we might do that,” Obama said....

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/72691

[DumbAss Tanker]

“When a finalized plan is presented to me by the Pentagon, then I will share it with the American people,” Obama said, adding, “We don’t yet have a complete strategy.”

Allow me to translate this not-quite-outright-lie in Doubletalk into something resembling a fact stated in English:  The Pentagon has hordes of strategy geeks in planning cells, military, civilian, and contract/consultant, who live to do nothing but that.  Want to plan to invade Mars?  You would get it in a month of less, of course there would be a lot of annexes laying out just what the current logistical limits are and what you would need to have to actually execute the plan successfully, complete with over-under timelines.  Want to fend of an attack from Mexico?  No problem, they've got that one on the shelf along with every other remotely-possible contingency for US forces involving offensive or defensive action in the real Earth world.

What Obozo is actually saying is that although the Pentagon has come up with numerous strategic proposals on how to stop ISIS/ISIL/Daesh in the past two years, none of them meet his self-imposed political constraints, and Valerie Jarrett won't let him sign off on any of them.  Rather than admit that, he will use vague language to throw the Pentagon under the bus.

[SVPete]

“We don’t yet have a complete strategy.”

Translation:

"My sycophants and I have no strategy"