Military Upset with White House 'Micromanagement' of ISIS War

The Daily Beast ^ | October 31, 2014 | Josh Rogin and Eli Lake

[Timber Rattler]

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.

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.

[Old Yeller]

Barry doesnt want his fellow Islamists hurt.

[Sequoyah101]

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.

[Sequoyah101]

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.

[The Duke]

MISLIM_BROS_BEFORE_AMERICAN_HEROS_PING!

[okie01]

Everything they touch...

[molson209]

White House ‘Micromanagement’ of ISIS War

Oh , that’s why it’s going so bad

[okie01]

Those who do not learn from the idiocy of LBJ are doomed to repeat his disastrous mistakes.

Perhaps the Obama regime prefers a Viet-Nam outcome and intends to repeat those mistakes.

[upcountryhorseman]

It’s clear that every effort of help should be directed at the Kurds: they are the only ones with “boots on the ground!”

[bassmaner]

The plans for a repeat of Saigon 4/30/75 in Baghdad are probably already in the works.

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[Thank You Rush]

“”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.

[ohioman]

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.

[WayneS]

I agree with you 100%.

Lyndon Johnson was a vile, contemptible piece of human garbage.

[Gritty]

We can "thank" LBJ for the Great Society (costing over $22 trillion and counting, and setting the black community to 1865), the ultimate loss of Viet Nam (explosion of the anti-war movement and radical Left), the Gun Control Act of 1968, Medicare, Medicaid, and Urban Development.

The man was a total disaster to America.

[what's up]

Rice should have been canned immediately after lying about Benghazi.

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.

[okie01]

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.

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).

[SunkenCiv]

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.