Posted on 11/01/2014 7:36:15 AM PDT by LSUfan
The Pentagon brass placed in charge of implementing Obama’s war against ISIS are getting fed up with the short leash the White House put them on.
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.
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Sadly nothing new here. Truman did this in the Korean War, and LBJ and his rat thugs did it during the Nam war as noted below:
Outspoken, revered Vietnam fighter pilot Jack Broughton dies at 89
LA Times, via Stars & Stripes ^ | Novembe 1, 2014 | Tony Perry
Posted on 11/2/2014, 3:14:47 AM by Timber Rattler
As a combat pilot, Air Force Col. Jack Broughton was celebrated for bravery and tactical brilliance during the Korean and Vietnam wars. He received promotions and important assignments and seemed headed to become a general.
But a high-profile court-martial during the Vietnam War for allegedly violating the rules of engagement that ruled certain targets off limits ended his career.
After leaving the Air Force, Broughton was free to speak out about what he saw as the incompetence of President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in micromanaging the war. Pilots couldn’t bomb an enemy outhouse without their approval, Broughton once complained.
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In a modern era where political and military objectives are intermixed, Broughton was “something of an anachronism. A swashbuckling skyjock of the old school, he wanted nothing more than to roll out his fighter jet every day and ‘go to work,’” David Gelman, who covered the Vietnam War for Newsday, wrote in his review of “Going Downtown.”
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In June 1967, as the war intensified, a pilot under Broughton’s command told him that he may have fired at a Soviet freighter in the North Vietnamese port of Cam Pha while attacking an anti-aircraft site. The Soviet Union complained bitterly to Washington.
To protect his pilots from criticism by civilian and military officials far removed from the realities of the war, Broughton ordered the destruction of the gun-camera film so that no evidence could exist.
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“It seemed to be that the whole world was out of focus,” Broughton later wrote. “Old friends were turning against us and common sense was not to be found.”
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Yet McNamara publicly admitted that his actions/directives were responsible for a substantial number of the 50,000 American deaths incurred in Vietnam.
We went through this BS in Vietnam with the white house and state department interference. And it is probably the same in every war.
One significant difference is POTUS’s Loyalties are questionable, it’s not just political ramifications in play.
ValJar knows full well what she is doing. And the goal is not military victory. In fact she probably giggles at reports of dead servicemen.
Case in point, when Obama had to do that awful chore of a speech about the burnt Jordanian pilot, she is sitting behind with that sh!t eating grin.
Evil
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