Posted on 10/31/2014 6:47:30 AM PDT by C19fan
Top military leaders in the Pentagon and in the field are growing increasingly frustrated by the tight constraints the White House has placed on the plans to fight ISIS and train a new Syrian rebel army.
As the American-led battle against ISIS stretches into its fourth month, the generals and Pentagon officials leading the air campaign and preparing to train Syrian rebels are working under strict White House orders to keep the war contained within policy limits. The National Security Council has given precise instructions on which rebels can be engaged, who can be trained, and what exactly those fighters will do when they return to Syria. Most of the rebels to be trained by the U.S. will never be sent to fight against ISIS.
Making matters worse, military officers and civilian Pentagon leaders tell The Daily Beast, is the ISIS war's decision-making process, run by National Security Advisor Susan Rice. It's been manic and obsessed with the tiniest of details. Officials talk of sudden and frequent meetings of the National Security Council and the so-called "Principals Committee" of top defense, intelligence, and foreign policy officials (an NSC and three PCs in one week this month); a barrage of questions from the NSC to the agencies that create mountains of paperwork for overworked staffers; and NSC insistence on deciding minor issues even at the operational level.
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Very reminiscent of LBJ’s “Tuesday Lunch Club” who approved every airstrike and bombing plan during Vietnam. Last I checked, it’s not a good approach for winning a conflict... but then, Obama’s goal isn’t “winning.” In his perverted, marxist “mind,” the only acceptable outcome is a beatdown for America.
Yup
By the time Obama finally makes a decision the ISIS terrorists are dying of old age in a rest home in Qatar
Those who do not learn from the idiocy of LBJ are doomed to repeat his disastrous mistakes.
I heard that the #2 in ISIS was formerly embedded with US Marines in Fallujah. He knows our tactics and procedures very well and had been able to minimize ISIS losses because our military is unable to change the way they do things.
Of course, the military’s hands are tied by the Obama Administration.
I predict our activities against ISIS will slow down really fast after the election.
The military should be used to it by now. Can nobody find a better source than the Daily Beast?
...and yet, not a single member of the JCS has resigned in protest. They need to put their stars on the table or keep bending at the knee of their boy king.
Boy I can not stand micro-managers. The Commonwealth’s Attorney(s) for whom I worked were not.
The JCS more interested in not stirring the waters so they can cash in when they retire and walk across the street to all the defense contractors located near the Pentagon.
“and what exactly those fighters will do when they return to Syria.”
Riiiiiggggghhhht.
The whole thing is nuts, anyway. The terrorists in Canada who went on a rampage wanted to leave for the Middle East to fight there, but Canada took their passports. Why??? Let them go. Let them all go. In fact, ban Islam, deport Muslims (change whatever laws it takes to do that), and bring our troops back home and put them on our borders. To hell with the Muslims! Let them fight to the death there and keep them out of civilized countries. Airlines should institute a pet-the-pig-before-boarding requirement for anyone getting on a plane.
As long as we have the enemy in our country and increasing in numbers, nothing we do in the Middle East will make us safer.
Obama believes if it was good enough for Johnson it is good enough for him.
The air strikes are for appearances only, nothing more. Military sources have stated something like this would require hundreds of strikes per day to destroy and degrade ISIL.
...and therein lies the problem.
The writers from the 80S GI Joe cartoon could come up with a slightly better strategy - almost.
I knew from the beginning of this quagmire that øbola would not destroy his creation.
First thoughts on my mind, LBJ.
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