Posted on 10/24/2014 9:38:54 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Now, as reported by the Washington Post, “The Syrian opposition force to be recruited by the U.S. military and its coalition partners will be trained to defend territory, rather than to seize it back from the Islamic State, according to senior U.S. and allied officials, some of whom are concerned that the approach is flawed.”
“Although moderate Syrian fighters are deemed essential to defeating the Islamic State under the Obama administration’s strategy, officials do not believe the newly assembled units will be capable of capturing key towns from militants without the help of forward-deployed U.S. combat teams, which President Obama has so far ruled out. The Syrian rebel force will be tasked instead with trying to prevent the Islamic State from extending its reach beyond the large stretches of territory it already controls.”
Ok, so it seems to me that President Obama — instead of accepting exactly what General Conway stated and perhaps listening to professional military officers — is just changing the criteria. In other words, Obama’s strategy to “outsource our national security” to a Syrian rebel force to fight ISIS — without American combat forces on the ground — is no longer viable.
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Bammy is a wannabe Caliph.
Ironically, ISIS is the devil you know. If you overthrow them, who knows what might be replacing it.
WTF?
In war, the most effective defense is most often a violently executed counter attack.
So... Just as we though.. and Obama inadvertently admitted. Make it a “manageable” problem, and get it off the front burners of the “media.”
All the groups in opposition want Sharia Law - will be just expanding the Caliphate is all.
Personally, a brutal caliphate is exactly what is needed to remind rest of the world about pisslam.
The koran being a genocidal war manual and Mohammad being a pedophile pirate are not enough to convince the dhimmis of the world about brutality of pisslam. So, a laboratory is required. Hopefully the caliphate will continue to antagonize islumics within, pitting brutal sunnis against crazy shites and vice versa. It is unfortunate that Christians and Yazidis are in the laboratory, but they were already in the middle of the islumic heartland, anyway.
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