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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I wasn't aware that the NSC was in the chain of command.
Clear failure by Hagel to put Susan Rice in her place. You can say a lot of things about Gates and Panetta, but they did not put up with this kind of interference from the WH apparatchiks.
Barry doesnt want his fellow Islamists hurt.
I have a haunting image sticking in my head from last week. It is the memory of a B-1 circling at what appears to be a low altitude over Korbani doing what I think must be trying to spot a target. I shudder to think what kind of conversation was going on and with whom and where.
Frustrated? Not frustrated enough to exercise moral courage and leave their stars on the table. I guess they figure they would be replaced by someone even more pliable and foolish though? It is probable.
MISLIM_BROS_BEFORE_AMERICAN_HEROS_PING!
Everything they touch...
White House ‘Micromanagement’ of ISIS War
Oh , that’s why it’s going so bad
Perhaps the Obama regime prefers a Viet-Nam outcome and intends to repeat those mistakes.
It’s clear that every effort of help should be directed at the Kurds: they are the only ones with “boots on the ground!”
The plans for a repeat of Saigon 4/30/75 in Baghdad are probably already in the works.
Obama can’t make up his mind which side he wants to win. His gut says side with the Islamists but he probably has advisors warning him about political fallout if he doesn’t pretend to be fighting them.
“”so-called “Principals Committee” of top defense, intelligence, and foreign policy officials””
And not ONE of those EXPERIENCED people has the guts to stand up and tell Rice - ENOUGH is ENOUGH - go to ****? Rice doesn’t have an ounce of the experience called for in this case or in any other subject I can think of. Nor does anyone else working on obozo’s staff. Sad, sad state of affairs for the rest of us.
When we talk of “worst presidents ever” it is unfair how many times LBJ gets left out of the conversation. He is probably worse than Carter and almost as bad as President Obola.
I agree with you 100%.
Lyndon Johnson was a vile, contemptible piece of human garbage.
The man was a total disaster to America.
Instead Obama promoted her in a display of tantrum. This is what we get when we elect Chicago inner city radicals. Ugh ugh and ugh.
Carter's damage was the production of incompetence. But it was Johnson's willful actions that produced damage -- in particular:
a. Viet-Nam
b. War on Poverty
c. Consolidation of the government's operating and trust budgets (social security).
Understandable — Zero and his cadre won’t support the Kurds, because they support Iran, which occupies Kurdish territory. They’ll pretend that the failure to support the Kurds is due to Turkish concerns, but undermining Turkey undermines NATO and enhances the Russian “reboot”, now that he has more leeway after the 2012 election.
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