Posted on 05/18/2015 4:05:10 AM PDT by markomalley
I agree our dear leader is a feckless ally.
However, the author’s assertion that “Dugout Doug” MacArthur was the architect of the island hopping is wrong, if I remember right. Doug was determined to recapture the Philippines (that he had left in haste in’42) before going on to Japan. Nimitz and Halsey were already knocking on the door.
Oldplayer
Once there we needed to remain and bolster the government
But we should have never gone in. We had a reason to be in Afghanistan and as it appears, Pakistan. We should have bombed Al Qaida training camps in Egypt and Saudi. I backed Bush for going into Iraq but we should have taken care of the prime mission first....not finish daddy’s battle.
This implies that CENTCOM is actually interested in defeating ISIS, which I sincerely doubt.
"Obama's Forces Win a Great Victory in Ramadi Today"
MacArthur was warned to move planes tanks etc after Pearl, so they wouldn’t be easy targets. He said it was a done deal. BOOM. He lost everything on the first attack wave.
The navy and the marines won the pacific war. MacArthur was the egotist who took the credit.
Who cares? Obama birdied that par 6!
Problem is.. there needs to a greater commitment than simply applying the minimal amount of force to manage the issue off the front pages.
Fox News just announcing on 7:30am WSBA and WMAL newscasts that Ramadi has fallen to muzzie-troglodytes-from-hell, but that Baghdad isn’t in any danger, right now. Heh.
The correct answer to the question, “Knowing what we now know, would you have invaded Iraq?” is: “Knowing what we now know, I would not have pulled our troops out.”
Saddam’s forces fought harder against the coalition’s finest than “free” Iraq’s forces are fighting against the j.v.
Individual v collective
declaration v king
constitution v state
Quran v individual, declaration, constitution, king, state, etc.
1400 yrs v upstart republics alert!
/purple fingers
/heads
Iran will defend Baghdad against ISIS Sunnis, with O’s blessing.
And we’ll provide air support, to our Iranian “allies”?
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi must be so ecstatic today!
Agreed. While all of the "knowledgeable observers" are wringing their hands about W entering into Iraq precious little is being said about the ruinous decision that grasped defeat from a hard won victory.
From Libya to Afghanistan to Yemen the region is enflamed and the people holding the torch and the gas can are our loyal Iranian allies.
The only stable countries across that broad crescent are Egypt and Israel who, not coincidently are on our leader' sh!t list.
Absolutely. The surge won the war. The White House muslim gave it all away to the enemy.
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That’s it: two strikes, two bombs, two positions—nothing else
10 bombs would have been enough to break the ISIS attacks and hold the city.
FWIW, 2 bombs isn’t even near a full ordnance load out on an F/A18, so the pilot flying the Hornet probably had to jettison the rest of his bombs over the ocean before heading back to the carrier to land.
Author is confused, thinking that soetoro wants to win against isis.
Obama defeated by the Junior Varsity.
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