[jyro]

you mean, bombing empty buildings and killing them one at a time with bombs we cancelled replacements for won’t win a war?

[Vigilanteman]

Zer0 would prefer a 50% risk of killing American troops over a 1% risk of killing ISIS slugs who have a 1% chance of being innocent.

Valarie Jarrett told him so.

[SandRat]

WH is a pain, just like LBJ was

[dainbramaged]

Sounds like LBJ and McNamara during Vietnam.

[molson209]

Obama is in charge ,when he’s not playing Golf or watching sports or Reading Speeches or etc etc

[henkster]

Generally, you don’t win wars you don’t want to win.

[Billthedrill]

We have political operatives in charge of a military/diplomatic operation while the top officials in both arenas are apparently being frozen out. That’s a recipe for disaster...

Old mistakes, new fools. These have the advantage of a lapdog media that Johnson and McNamara never had.

[NonValueAdded]

Channeling their inner LBJ?

[PTBAA]

In fairness to Obama, how else are you going to make sure the bombs are dropped where ISIS ain’t.

[tumblindice]

The Bay of Pigs debacle had one “father”: Jack Kennedy.

[OpusatFR]

We know how well that worked with McNamara micromanaging Vietnam warfare.

[PIF]

“The entire strategy against ISIS should be revisited ...”

You cannot design a workable policy when you refuse to define the enemy ... Revisiting is just a waste of time until the enemy is defined. Not holding breath.

[zzwhale]

JFK bay of pigs..... dealey plaza

[Wuli]

shades of LBJ, McNamara and Westmorland; running a war effort with media-driven-political-issue-of-the-moment in charge

on the other hand, I really don’t give a damn about helping the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood dominated “Free Syrian Army” at this point

fighting ISIS yes, toppling Assad in favor of ????, no

[1010RD]

Is “micromanagement” from the WH like a passenger grabbing the yoke and steering the plane toward earth’s inner core?