Pentagon asks Senate for patience in war against ISIS
Remember the other day when the president made a “rare’ visit to the Pentagon and the whole internet was a-buzz about it and how we were finally going to get a strategy from the President – then when it happened all we heard were the same old platitudes? Well, Ash Carter, the Secretary of Defense and out-going Chairman of the Joint Chiefs martin Dempsey went to the Senate yesterday and laid out their strategy to stall Congress, much like they’re stalling in the war against ISIS. From Stars & Stripes;
Only 60 moderate Syrian fighters have been trained this year, but recent gains in the country by U.S.-backed militias show the strategy can work, Carter told skeptical senators on the Armed Services Committee. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., committee chairman, called claims about success delusional.
Carter and Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey came to Capitol Hill to make the administration case for the current war strategy a day after President Barack Obama underscored the importance of training ground forces and allied militias on a rare trip to the Pentagon. The administration had a strategy meeting on the often uneven, year-old Islamic State offensive.
“It is going to take some time to get the numbers up to the point where they can have an effect,” Carter told senators.
60 Syrian fighters. That should have a real impact in this war, won’t it? The other day, we learned that were about 3,000 Iraqi and Peshmerga soldiers in the pipeline, you know, because everyone gets their own personal trainer. And 60 Syrians.
Dempsey, reminding us that he has been ROAD (Retired On Active Duty) for years said that he’s not making any recommendations that the President doesn’t want to hear;
“I agree there are points on the battlefield where embedded forces…would make them more capable,” Dempsey said. “I can tell you I have not recommended it.”
So, basically, we’re just going through the motions of being concerned about ISIS without actually doing something because we don’t want to tip over the President’s legacy applecart.
Category: Terror War
This President’s legacy is so ironclad, you couldn’t push it over with a bulldozer.
Notice I said nothing about quality.
Yup. Building Dear Leader’s legacy one fuck up at a time.
Let the CIA handle the problem, they created them!
I support your perception, PN.
60 Syrians, huh?
From ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’
And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
ISIS is now the wolf coming down on the fold, not the Assyrian, and not this country.
When is that asshole leaving? WHEN?????
PH2, why don’t you start a daily countdown and post it here at TAH how many leaderless days we have left so that we can all feel a little bit better every day?
Why, Poetrroper? Because it’s far too much fun to bitch and use the word ‘WHEN’ !!
Oh, this morning, in a video from a recent interview, shrillary said ‘You can trust me.’
Yeah, tell that to those four Americans – YOUR EMPLOYEES, BITCH – who were abandoned to their fate in Benghazi.
I would love to debate this chick on live TV. I wonder what her botox bill is per year.
What ever happened to the way we used to do things?
Send in the military, kill anyone trying to fight against us. Go into the capital, and take out anyone trying to fight us. Then tell the people that next time, they shouldn’t piss us off.
Who’s training ISIS? See them in our equipment. They don’t seem to need anything but OJT.
Well, we can’t rush into this. First we have to get rid of more active duty soldiers, mothball a few ships, dry dock a couple of carriers, reduce our overall capabilities. Then we’ll be ready to stand by and watch ISIS take over the Middle East, and Iran get several nukes.
Sadly, this is pretty much the truth of the matter.
I wonder what the going rate for taxpayers was to train, “Only 60 moderate Syrian fighters have been this year”?
If we had put those, I am sure millions into training and equipping the Kurds, we would have a true fighting force on our side in the region. Instead we are training, “toss a coin to see who I will fight for today and who I will backstab later”, Syrians “moderates”.
What they don’t say, is that they trained 60 of them….trained 60 to do jumping jacks. High five!
Train a platoon kill a squad… at this rate to beat ’em we need to train approximately 6 billion troops.
Send in BERNATH! With 300 confirmed sniper kills he would take care of business. DAMN, my bad..I forgot, he’s a lying POSER ASSHOLE. Still posting honey puke
Yes, it’s all smoke and mirrors, mostly smoke. Going up our kilts.
The official position of this Administration is: Rather than do something wrong, we will do nothing.
The only surprise is the fact that there are still some folks out there who think we give a shit about what is happening with ISIS.
“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing”
In this administration’s defense, almost exclusively whenever they do something, they fuck it up royally.
Patience? If the POTUS wouldn’t have been in such a damn hurry to leave, none of this would have happened in the first place.
IF? If my Aunt had a dick she’d be my Uncle. Regional players will decide the outcome of this mess. There are no good scenarios.
“If my Aunt had a dick she’d be my Uncle.”
That used to be true but the Supreme Court just ruled that your aunt now has a fundamental right to have a dick–and remain your aunt.
Here’s hoping that Gen Dunford does not become Dempsey. Having served under the man twice, I have high hopes.
Gen. Dunford is just in a damn tough spot. He must be loyal to teh Prez, but not get to beholden to Obama’s policies. Dunford will be serving a new master in 2017…so bide his time & keep his powder dry.
Yeah, People here will be calling Gen. Dunford “Dumpturd” before long….
I support the strategy of not doing s*** so the admin doesn’t look bad 1000%. Look at how messed up everything else they’ve intentionally done is-do you really want them trying to run this war harder? Better a holding action until we get a crack a replacing them with even slightly better leadership.