Senators criticize lack of strategy
The Washington Post reports that Senator John McCain is doing his knee-jerk thing again calling for sending more troops to Iraq, you know, like he did when Syria was a problem;
Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Obama is “either in denial or overwhelmed” with regard to the Islamic State and called for “additional U.S. troops” to help combat the extremist group.
The Arizona Republican, speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” added that U.S. forces should play only a support role.
I’m not sure what more support troops would do to help defeat ISIS, unless we plan to bury them in hand receipt and inventory paperwork for all of the US equipment that ISIS now owns.
The Post also reports that Senator Diane Feinstein says that Obama is moving too slowly in Iraq;
Feinstein also acknowledged that Obama’s description of the Islamic State in January as a “JV team” was inaccurate. “I think it’s a major varsity team,” she said, adding, “I see nothing that compares with its viciousness.”
The senator also suggested that the United States was caught off guard by the Islamic State’s capabilities and its rapid advances in Iraq.
“I mean, they crossed the border into Iraq before we even knew it happened,” she said. “This is a group of people who are extraordinarily dangerous, and they’ll kill with abandon.”
Yeah, we were “caught off guard”. They took Fallujah in February and then spent six months building up their forces while we sat on our hands and made promises to Iraq for equipment we didn’t bother to deliver, and still haven’t delivered with the Islamic State at the gates of Baghdad. So I’m thinking while Feinstein’s and McCain’s criticism is justified, they’re moving too slow, too.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Congress sucks
Aww give them a chance, they haven’t finished hashtagging out the proper analogies. Elections are coming up. /sarc
#Elections have consequences.
Now, now. Be nice. It takes time to figure things out. Some day you’ll be that old, too.
Doubt it. IIRC, McCain is the young one at 78.
Someone asked him the Clinton question, “Boxers or briefs?” To which he replied, “Depends.”
DiFi just hasn’t been the same since that house fell on her sister.
If by “house” you mean Dan White, and by “sister” you mean every other politician in the city of San Fransisco, then you are correct. Those events raised her to levels she would never have attained otherwise and we are all the worse for it.
“I mean, they crossed the border into Iraq before we even knew it happened,” she said. “This is a group of people who are extraordinarily dangerous, and they’ll kill with abandon.” Well Thank you Senator Diane Feinstein for finally waking up to smell the shit everyone else has been smelling for months. “Extraordinarily dangerous”…ya think Senator!!! “Before we knew what happened”, again, really!!! Where the hell have you been this last year? I wouldn’t let any of these clowns change my tire much less make decisions for a foreign war policy. John McCain wants us in another Vietnam there, you know, America in only a supporting role. Well John who else is going to take the leading role? Who? Name one ally willing to lead this? We have the power to end IS except Obama is not willing to use it? Many allies have the power but like our President have no strategy and doesn’t know what in hell to do now. The answer is pretty simple. They want to live in a world of law and rule like a thousand years ago, give it to them. First, EMP bursts to take out all electronics and electrical infrastructure so they cook on wood and read the Koran by candle light. No cell phones, no TV, no modern anything. Then when they are technologically blind, bomb the living shit out of them. I mean napalm and firestorms that can be seen in Europe. Send a message to like minded Muslims everywhere that the same fate awaits them. No more America lives there to be lost on “training and equipping” and the like. We’ve been there and done that and it didn’t work because you can’t make a coward anything more than a coward. Arm and help the Kurds establish a homeland for them. Diplomatically and with force if needed and leave the rest to kill each other off. That is, the ones left after the bombings. Export it beyond your borders and your wives and children at home will pay the price. Simple enough to me. Tired and fed up with… Read more »
There’s something to be said about making Mecca disappear…
Hey, Sparks, it’s beginning to look like we’re going to partner up with Iran, so there’s your “leading role” player. What could go wrong?
You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.
So all it took was the beheading of an America Journalist for these two to wake up a little late on what everybody else has been telling them.
The administration still thinks it’s a JV team and not a threat to the U.S.
I’m sure they’ll flip flop on this once something happens after Barry left office.
DiFi used the words ‘too cautious’. I guess the glamour finally wore off. She snapped out of her coma or something.
Yes, this is the place where those who have been hypnotized by staring at a false sun for – what, 6 years now? – are starting to realize that the threat is real, that the ISers don’t care who you are because you are American and they want to kill you, and armed bodyguards and ‘special status’ won’t keep you alive.
If this got real, I doubt the police could handle it but that’s what she’d exepct. Hell, they can’t hit the broadside of a barn with arrows pointing to it, can they? It’s so EASY to lose your special status when your gated compound is overrun and no one gives a crap how much money you’be got.
This is where that ‘America – love it or lose it’ aphorism crops up, isn’t it?
Perhaps it’s just as well the military is downsizing. We need them here, not overseas.
We don’t have much time to get our act together.
We’re in a bad way, PH, I agree with you there.
But I refuse to lose hope on the American people. We can and will win.
It’s always a cycle, part of history. But with the down cycle comes the good, and that upswing is coming, and coming soon.
We just have to hold the line until it comes.
Oh, yes, it is coming, but some people simply get impatient and want instant results. They forget that everything happens in its time and place.
Griping about this allows us to blow off steam and expres anger instead of suppressing it. But that does not eliminate the need to be prepared for just about anything. Just because my intuitive radar stops beeping, it doesn’t mean I have an ‘all clear’ signal.
“I mean, they crossed the border into Iraq before we even knew it happened,” she said. “This is a group of people who are extraordinarily dangerous, and they’ll kill with abandon.”
Is she still the ranking minority member of the Senate Intelligence Committee? Maybe she and Chuck Hagel can exchange briefs??
You want Chuckie and DiFi to trade Underoos?
Oh, now that makes my day!!!!!