Obama plans to tightly control strikes on Syria (Mother may I...)

Market Watch-WSJ ^ | Thursday, September 18, 2014 | JulianE. Barnes - CarolE. Lee

[Paine in the Neck]

“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”

I guess we can add "I know more about military strategy than my generals."

[hal ogen]

This is a bad joke. Clown Prince will have none of that “work” or “responsibility” thing. The degenerate is off to the golf course. Valarie the Iranian will probably call the shots. I worry for the US troops who will undoubtedly be killed by these nincompoops.

[BwanaNdege]

Has our Secretary of State, JF KErry, booked his Christmas trip to Cambodia yet?

What about his Paris hotel room for the Surrender Talks with ISIS?

[rdcbn]

Obama is protecting ISIS. Most of the air strike targets are targets of opportunity, such as an exposed convoy, that present themselves for a matter of minutes or hours and then go away.

Obama just waits and dithers long enough for the targets to go away or hide

[CapnJack]

It's Deja vu all over again.

[mojito]

Way to surrender the initiative Commandante Barry!

You don't want those hot heads of the ground to make decisions in a complex and fluid war zone.

Much better to get Commandante Barry off the 15th green...or better yet...wait until the Commandante has finished the round.

[Pollster1]

Besides the fact that no commander-in-chief should micromanage military operations (the correct answer is to give the commanders goals/objectives and let them decide how to achieve those goals/objectives), I cannot imagine anyone less qualified to control airstrikes than the community-organizer-in-chief. I always think that I’m expecting the worst from Obama, but time after time, I’m surprised when he has the creativity to come up with an idea even more harmful than the worst I could imagine. I just can’t match the level of anti-American, anti-military malice that the druggie in our White House naturally brings to the table.

[RedEyeJack]

This is BS.

Obama will exercise authority but will not take responsibility. He will take credit for any good strikes and punish the military who have to build the target packages for any collateral damage... especially any loss of life.

He won't be serious anyway because he doesn't understand what war is all about. If he did he would target the crude oil transportation means (Pipelines and vehicles) that ISIS is using to transport their oil from captured production areas. Put up UAVs and take out any pipelines and transport tankers within a 50 mile radius of the oil fields. If that doesn't get their attention (and that of the Turks who are also profiting from this activity) then take out the oil field themselves. They can be cleaned up and restarted when ISIS is gone. “Making Georgia howl” should be the model.

[tomkat]

Ø plans to tightly control ..

             

[oldtech]

Does this mean any ground units(if there are any) would have to have written permission before firing on the enemy?

[Nuocmam]

“My advisors and I are having a cluster f*** in the oval office and will get back to you someday. Meanwhile continue the issued FUBAR plan until our assests are reduced to levels which need no management.”

[JoeFromSidney]

I think I've seen this movie before. I didn't like the way it came out. Is there some way avoid a re-run?