Making a pledge of “no boots on the ground” is idiotic for two reasons:
1. The most glaring is that we already have boots on the ground. Those SpecOps troops there all consider themselves to be real warriors.
2. And the second, probably the most important, is that, while I’m ok with giving the kurds & arabs a bit of a chance to fight their own ground war with our advisors and our close air support, not to send in a hard hitting shock and awe on the ground is to tell your own nation that you have zero desire to WIN!
And that the theme that the opposition should be pushing. Obama doesn’t care about winning, even though he’s willing to shed the blood of our best and brightest in a cause he doesn’t give a fig about.
Absolutely correct. Any president that publicly announces to the enemy what he will not do is incompetent or a traitor, in this case probably both.