Josh Rogin: Obama’s Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump’s
Josh Rogin writes in the pages of the Washington Post that “Obama’s Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump’s“. A real comedy piece to make Obama look more committed to the war against the use of chemical weapons than Trump;
…the Obama plan was designed to be substantial enough to have an impact on Assad’s calculus. There were also plans to follow up with strikes on even more targets if Assad continued to use chemical weapons.
“The military planners thought that the attack we had planned in 2013 was significant enough to have a real deterrent effect,” the official said. “We had a strike plan that included additional targets that would not have been struck in the initial go around.”
So why haven’t we heard about this big plan until now?
Obama changed his mind at the last minute and ended up not striking Syria at all.
Yeah, that’s what Nobel prize winners do when they’re trying to nail down their legacy and kick the can down the road.
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.
Category: Terror War
Did that excuse come from the 3rd edition of ‘Excuses You Can Believe In’?
Josh Rogin? absolute NUTCASE, obozo had a bigger plan than Trump? WTF is wrong with Rogin? The only thing bigger obozo had was a wider red line in the sand…these news freaks are maggots, cockroaches of the lowest form of life!!
I know I’m being pretty down in the weeds, but this absurdity reminds me of Tom Wolfe’s brilliant send up of the art world, “The Painted Word.”
In one part, he describes in viciously satirical terms the “greatest artist in the world.” IIRC, the greatest artist is totally cynical and totally unproductive. He has the “greatest” artistic ideas ever conceived, but he never makes them. He dies with not one work to his name.
Sounds a lot like our former “president” to me.
And Wolfe’s description of the patrons of the art world sound a hell of a lot like Dear Former Leader’s sycophants.
It’s the aura.
Somehow, they project it, and it works until the batteries run down.
Nah, it’s the aroma and it smells like…
How long before the lament that Obama never had a tragedy like a gas attack to exploit?
If only he’d had the chance…
He never let the White House kitchen staff fix beans for anything, not once in eight long years.
Mmmm-Kay so what’s more effective, a focused, single strike or a large plan the was never executed?
I’ll take focused single strike for a thousand, Alex.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Thanks, MC. That one’s a keeper.
Seriously? Obama’s is bigger than Trump’s? Again with the racist stereotypes!
The obvious riposte is if you don’t use it, it doesn’t matter how big it is.
Tim, it’s the best chance in your life to do a line of jokes. Use it.
Sorry, I’m not up to it. My mental faculties (among others) seem to have diminished with age. And time of day.
I doubt seriously that Obama’s junk has even been bigger than Trump’s.
I doubt if O’Bozo’s junk was even as big as Moochelle’s.
Not all that sure he has junk.
Ooooh, the legacy of President Trump’s predecessor is tarnished yet again! Didn’t the predecessor and his Secretary of State bray that they had an agreement prettily written up and signed saying they crossed their heart while promising they didn’t have any more Chemical Weapons? Gee whiz!
Trump is exposing Obama as the lazy shit he is every single day of his administration.
I betcha that President Trump is living rent free in Dear Former Leader’s head 24/7.
Just a question regarding that picture up at the top: every time I see it, my first reaction is always that I’m looking at a petulant six-year-old. Am I being too harsh?
Nope, too generous… i’d go with a 2-3 y/o
OK!
To the committed Leftist, -intentions- are more important than any actual actions of results.
BH Zer0 -intended- that the chemical weapons be removed, and -intended- a huge strike, all for the -intention- of preventing use of chemical weapons, without any loss of life to get there. Thus maximum Leftie points.
Thus zero missiles is greater than fifty-nine, and “forty four” is greater than “forty five”.
They -really- think that way.
President Trump’s predecessor used ZERO missiles, a piece of paper from his quiche-eating snot-nosed Secretary of State and then had a press conference in between golf outings where he yet again took credit for something he didn’t do.
Yeah, here’s what I have to say about intentions, quoting from one of my favorite movie scenes…
https://youtu.be/eg8-dii9Ma0
My plan for Syria involved nukes, 4 pandas, a fork and an oompa loompa.
Can I get an article written about it?
My plan for Syria involves dropping large rocks from outer space onto Bashar Assad’s house. My plan is the best ever, much better than either Obama’s or Trump’s. My work is done here, I will leave it up to you guys to figure out how to execute it.
well, start by using the Lunar grain catapults
So Obama’s plan that he never executed was better than the plan Trump actually carried out?
Is this supposed to be comedy?
No. It is leftist Political Science.
Tomato, tomahto.
Obama’s intentions were better than Trump’s execution?
They should give Obama an Nobel Peace Prize for intentions….
They did!
Josh Rogin = Turd.
The judicial strike plan against me has been delayed again until later this month. Hoping my luck holds out, unlike my fuel, energy, and other plans which seem to run short.
Hey, Josh! If you really want to discuss plans, war plans, contingency operations and all that kinda stuff, most of us here have much more experience writing and implementing those plans than does your old boss. The only reason your old boss had any plans at all is because of the war planners serving while you two were playing games up there in the White House.
You bragging about the plans you had that others wrote, Josh? No surprise, really. Folks in military service do their jobs well no matter who occupies the big chairs.
A plan that was never exercised is pretty much a fantasy regardless of size.
Is Rogin a new resident of Fantasyland? I’m pretty sure they’ve got all seven Dwarfs, perhaps there are a few openings for Stooges
“His fantasy, Tattoo? Invent a legacy for a man who did zer0 as President of the USA.”
“Boss, that’s -stupid-!”
“Yes, Tattoo. But his check cleared, so we will fake it as best we can.”
Yes, and Hillary “almost” joined the Marines.
Two black guys pissing from a bridge.
“Man,” says one. “This water is cold.”
“Yeah” says the other, “And deep too.”
I remember back in the day helping write annex’s to OPlans and ConPlans that were Yuuuge and lavish and extravagant. And were never acted upon (thankfully). And guess what? They went into the dustbin of history as they became out-dated and had to be revised.
No doubt Obummer’s ConPlan was outdated after 3 years and different force types available.
Sounds to me like more “coulda woulda shoulda” sour grapes commentary from our Progressive media talking heads.
Here’s a better expression of the sentiment, 60+ years ago by a guy named Brando:
Probably not executed because he was afraid Assad would get into bed with Putin. Oh, wait…
Darn it Obama, you should never pass up an opportunity to bomb the s**t out of someone, strategic considerations be damned.
What I read was Obama > Trump.
What I figured out is that Obama’s failure to act led to the deaths of dozens of kids.