[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty/Retiree ping.

[MeshugeMikey]

“I don’t know why there is this big hand wringing about boots on the ground,” says Zinni. “That leads to mission creep, which generates more casualties. We have 1,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and counting. I am sure they are wearing boots.”

WELL PUT!!!

No Flip Flops Or Bunny Slippers allowed

[rdl6989]

BUMP!

[SkyPilot]

The world is a complex place. Zinni says he "understand what the President is trying to do. He desperately wants to get us unstuck from a lot of commitments around the world and the expense that military intervention is costing us.

WRONG General!

Utterly, and completely wrong.

Obama is on the side of ISIL (whom he armed), and he wants the Caliphate so that it will attack Israel.

[SkyPilot]

"Remember the pivot?" Zinni asks facetiously, referring to Obama's stated desire to shift military focus to Asia. "How the hell is that working out for you? We are mired down in the Middle East.

I have been saying this for 2 years: the "pivot to Asia" was a pivot to no where. Obama and the Democrats (and sadly many Republicans) hid behind that skirt so that they could justify gutting military spending.

[nhwingut]

The media couldn’t get enough of zinini when he was criticizing Bush. Now they’ll ignore him.

[N. Theknow]

In the business world when no one has the courage to make a decision for fear of failure, they form a committee to cover everyone's butt.

In government when no one can make a decision for fear of failure, they form a coalition.

Very telling that a recent rescue mission proved fruitless because the Ditherer In Chief did not want to be looked upon as another Carter because of a failed rescue mission.