Posted on 01/16/2015 11:43:21 AM PST by Nachum
According to the Washington Post, weapons and ammunition are in such short supply at the centers where Iraqi army units receive training to fight ISIS that the trainees are yelling “bang-bang” instead of shooting.
Last August, when President Obama announced that the U.S. would undertake a mostly proxy war against ISIS, I would have said that yelling “bang-bang” is the perfect metaphor for his anti-terrorism campaign. Today, whispering “bang-bang” is more like it.
Iraq, where trainees lack weapons and ammunition, is the site of America’s most robust anti-terrorist activity. Elsewhere, our efforts are even more pathetic. The Post’s editors write:
In Libya, the job of stemming an incipient civil war has been left to a feckless U.N. mediator, even though the Islamic State is known to be operating at least one training camp with hundreds of recruits.
In Nigeria, where a new offensive by the Boko Haram movement has overrun much of one northeastern state, a U.S. military training program was recently canceled by the government following a dispute over arms sales.
The bankruptcy of U.S. policy toward the Syrian civil war was underlined again on Wednesday, when Secretary of State John F. Kerry expressed hope for a patently cynical and one-sided diplomatic initiative by Russia, which has been working to preserve the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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I thought he was singing “You’re Not My Friend.”
cant fault Obi on this one...
in 2004 while ramping up to go to iraq..
we trained with no ammo also
we ended up yelling bang bang...
he gets a pass from me on this!
FYI- our ammo issues was a paperwork screw up
hey, don’t mock serious military training. shouting “bang bang” in a public school will get you expelled.
/sarc but not sarc
Funny.....all I see in the picture are terrorists.
Wait. The Iraqis have oil. They can’t afford a few bullets?
Ask around the US. Talk to the logistics guys.
We are only slightly ahead of where we were in 1937.
We use simulators instead of trucks with painted signs that say tanks.
The US Military has painted the rust to prevent anyone from seeing it. But the paint only covers the rust.
So long as nobody runs at them yelling “Tankity tank tank tank”!
Same deal training for Viet Nam.
Charging up a hill yelling Bang! Bang!
Gave me lots of confidence...
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