Posted on 01/16/2014 2:03:22 PM PST by MarkBsnr
Sir Hew Strachan, an expert on the history of war, says that the presidents strategic failures in Afghanistan and Syria have crippled Americas position in the world. President Obama is chronically incapable of military strategy and falls far short of his predecessor George W. Bush, according to one of Britains most senior military advisors.
Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the Chief of the Defense Staff, told The Daily Beast that the United States and Britain were guilty of total strategic failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obamas attempts to intervene on behalf of the Syrian rebels has left them in a far worse position than they were before.
The extraordinary critique by a leading advisor to the United States closest military ally comes days after Obama was undermined by the former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who questioned the Presidents foreign policy decisions and claimed he was deeply suspicious of the military.
Strachan, a current member of the Chief of the Defense Staffs Strategic Advisory Panel, cited the crazy handling of the Syrian crisis as the most egregious example of a fundamental collapse in military planning that began in the aftermath of 9/11. If anything its gone backwards instead of forwards, Obama seems to be almost chronically incapable of doing this. Bush may have had totally fanciful political objectives in terms of trying to fight a global War on Terror, which was inherently astrategic, but at least he had a clear sense of what he wanted to do in the world. Obama has no sense of what he wants to do in the world, he said.
I disagree. I think Obama is living proof that God is angry with America. Obama is God's judgement on America.
Agreed...
He wants an Islamic c@liph@te and the destruction of Israel and the U.S.A. Pretty simple and obvious.
The net effect of Obama’s policies seems to be a slow descent of the Muslim world into a civil war between Sunni and Shite factions.
Call me callous, but the more I think about that, the less it bothers me.
Obama is turning out far worse than we feared in 2008. He is destroying lives.
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