Posted on 01/02/2016 6:19:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More U.S. military personnel have been sent to Iraq and Syria. Trainers, Special Forces, and airstrikes haven't been enough. The administration continues its slow progression to renewed ground combat. President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize grows more tarnished by the day.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter informed Congress last month that a "specialized expeditionary targeting force" would be sent to Iraq on top of the 3500 personnel already there, with the authority to operate in Syria too.
The president's promise not to commit "boots on the ground" already was trampled underfoot in October, when a Delta Force soldier was killed while accompanying Kurdish forces on a raid in Iraq. MSgt. Joshua Wheeler was the first American killed in combat since America's exit in 2011. Many more are likely to follow.
The President insisted that he "was confident we are on the winning side of this." So has virtually every other leader in every other conflict, including the first Iraq War. There is still time for the president to return luster to his Nobel Prize by reversing course, pulling the U.S. out of yet another extended ground war in the Middle East. For more than a decade Washington has been engaged in what historian Barbara Tuchman referred to in another time and circumstance as "the march of folly." It is time to call a halt
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Our military forces are once again in grave danger, I’m sure they are operating with both hands tied, there are just enough of them to be slaughtered, sacrifices to the bigger picture in the obama goals of chaos and confusion further perpetuating destruction in America and around the world.
His last year in office will be worse than the seven previous years, he will with a vengeance promote islamic jihad to confirm his position as the supreme islam/caliph.
Yet and still there is nothing to stop him.
Don’t worry - Code Pink and the left will be all over this if a Republican is sworn in as President a year from now.
“”with the authority to operate in Syria too.””
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The US has NO authority to operate in Syria. 0bama is trying to overthrow the legitimate Syrian government, and is using US military to further his MB initiative
Not buying it. The media will attempt to make opportunities for Hillary to differential herself from Obama this year by criticizing a few of his policies.
And Katrina will hand their asses back to them.
Had it won already, but Barack gave away the victory.
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