Posted on 04/22/2015 8:04:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Photo: AP
As Iraqis fight to repel ISIS forces in Ramadi, the Obama administration is deeming this vital city expendable.
In so doing, the White House shows it understands nothing about the value of Ramadi or even its own capacity to defend it. Theres no better example of US incompetence in dealing with these mad jihadis.
Why isnt this key western Iraqi city, the capital of Anbar Province, high on our priority list?
According to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey, its because President Obama would rather place the emphasis on defending an Anbar refinery, to protect the oil supplies.
As if we couldnt do both and then some.
For the past eight months, the administration has settled for little more than jabs when it could have landed flurries of punishing roundhouse blows. According to the latest 24-hour Defense Department report, US forces launched just 36 airstrikes against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria.
Thats actually much more than normal. But it nevertheless is the equivalent of fighter-bombers from the offshore US carrier making just one sortie a day, though each of these planes can fly several daily.
And that doesnt count the vast numbers of ground-based F-16s, F-15s, F-22s, A-10s, B-1 heavy bombers, helicopters and Reaper and Predator drones we have in the area, or the aircraft of 11 other coalition nations. The day before, there were only 13 airstrikes, fewer than a single Reaper can launch on one mission.
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Obama is not interested in defeating ISIS. He just wants to appear to oppose it. He wants an Islamic caliphate across the Mid East.
Obama blows.
Not just him - all Western politicians seem to have gotten their marching orders on this. Saudi money buys a lot more influence than we ever thought.
Martin Dempsey is marking time waiting for retirement ,he’ll say and do anything he’s told to do
I am shocked but not surprised. The POTUS is typically in pretty close contact with the smartest warriors and strategists in the world. My 8 year old son knows enough about tactics associated with Capture the Flag to see the ingorant flaw in Obama's abortion of a strategy. I guess the problem is Obama hates the military and anybody associated with it so he avoids and distrusts them. When someone says, "Mr. President, we need to stop the enemy's advance and put them on defense if we ever hope to hold or save ANY specific ground on the battlefield.", does the POTUS say, "No. We'll just defend these oil refineries so the enemy doesn't capture these."
Does he have a magic force field? Is he building fortifications and military runways at the oil refineries? Is he deploying armored divisions at the oil refineries? Are we deploying ground attack aircraft, support aircraft and assets to these oil refineries? No, of course not. He is going to hang a sign out front and post a message on twitter warning the enemy to stay away from the refineries. The sign hangers and diplomats should expect to be slaughtered on account of the signs being printed in the wrong language.
A political move. Democrats still run the show, and Democrats are politics 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. They are NOT going to war even though they are. The illusion we are supposed to have is that there is peace in our time with the Obama administration, and when we toss the Democrats in 2016 the warmongers of the Right will have us at war again.
They are right as they are deliberately leaving us no alternative as war is the only way we can clean up the Democrat/Obama mess.
The JV team is in the White House
When it comes down to it he won’t defend the refinery either.
Simplify. William of Ockham had a tool for that. Hussein is a Moslem doing what a Moslem in his situation would do. More, he is a Sunni Moslem goading Iran into a nuclear strike against Israel which will bring massive retaliation even if Tel Aviv and Haifa are glassed. Shia Iran would cease to exist and Israel would be at least severely truncated. The Sultan thereby eliminates two of his three most important enemies even as he creates the conditions for converting the third. The Sultan only loses if Israel has an anti missile capability that is more capable than supposed. The Sultan thinks he knows what Israel has in that respect, but does he? I hope he does not. I do not hope for nuclear war to be averted. I think we are way past that point because the Sultan has a year and a half to finish what he has started and he has no political opposition. There will be nuclear war and all the crazies in the Middle East will buy nukes from Pakistan and North Korea and put their techies hard to work to develop their own.
Gen. Dempsey, you know very well we can do both, and much more to neutralize the threat. Apparently Gen. Dempsey, you are not giving your CIC proper council. If you are, may I suggest you resign? Do not lose your honor too.
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