Posted on 09/18/2014 5:08:02 AM PDT by GonzoII
US President Barack Obama will personally sign off on any airstrike targeting Islamic State militants in Syria, Julian Barnes and Carol Lee of The Wall Street Journal report.
With the high level of personal control in Syria, "Obama can better ensure the operation remain focused on his main goal for that part of the campaign: weakening the militants' hold on territory in neighboring Iraq."
The U.S. has conducted 174 strikes in Iraq and is preparing Islamic State (aka ISIS) targets in Syria. Obama has sent hundreds of special operations advisors to Iraq to assist Iraqi Security Forces and Kurdish peshmerga while asking Congress to grant the authority to train and arm vetted factions of the Syrian opposition.
Officials told WSJ that the commander-in-chief "wants to make sure the military actions in Syria are more like the counterterrorism operations in Somalia or Yemen."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.in ...
The Syrians don’t want our planes in their airspace. If the O sends flights in without permission, Russia will do something to help Syria.
You know why he’s doing this, don’t you?
It’s because he wants to APPEAR to be opposing ISIS but not ACTUALLY opposing ISIS.
aint gonna be another damn din bin foo
yeah, it worked out so well for hitler at stalingrad....lol
Didn't you hear? Obama has had a remote "pickle" switch for the laser guided bombs installed on his X-Box.
What if he goes to bed?
It’s a 9-5 war...or should I say 1100-1300 with an hour break for lunch thrown in, ‘cause that’s about all the time that 0 makes for our nation’s affairs...tee time is at 2:00...
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