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Obama’s Bad Relationship with the Military Is Hurting the Fight Against ISIS
The Fiscal Times ^ | 17 Nov 2015 | Liz Peek

Posted on 11/19/2015 2:44:17 AM PST by 11th_VA

It is high time we heard from our military commanders. Our men and women in uniform are being humiliated, but the Pentagon brass sits mute. The administration's inability to "degrade and destroy ISIS," or even to "contain" the terror plague, as President Obama so inappropriately claimed just last Friday, is an embarrassment.

While inept guidance from Obama and his shrinking circle of confidants has caused headline-worthy failures in Syria, pushback from military commanders has been silenced by a distrustful White House that's jealous of control and willing to penalize those who stray from the Oval Office narrative.

President Obama told graduates of the Coast Guard Academy that denying climate change is a "dereliction of duty." Isn't blindly following the flawed and politically skewed directives of the White House also a dereliction of duty.

The failure of our effort to arm compliant rebels in Syria -- $50 million spent to produce six soldiers -- has made our military a laughing stock, but is the tip of the iceberg. Continued half-measures in arming our allies or providing critical air support has hobbled our attack on a deadly foe. Recently, the White House announced it would send in dozens (but fewer than 50) advisors, as a renewed show of resolve - but vowed they would not engage in combat. Fifty soldiers! We're not trying to button down Disneyland; there are an estimated 50,000 to 200,000 ISIS fighters in Syria, and they control about half the country...

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Every man and woman in uniform needs to read this column - I dare the Military Times to print it.
1 posted on 11/19/2015 2:44:17 AM PST by 11th_VA
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"Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has accused the Obama White House of micromanaging military operations -- actually calling field commanders with strategies and tactics"

I would love to hear this phone conversation. Yes General, I know you have dedicated your entire life to the study of military strategy and have been very successful at it, but I was a community organizer once so I have some ideas on how to employ your forces....
2 posted on 11/19/2015 2:59:13 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: 11th_VA

Obama has decimated morale, removed good leaders , planted his supporters, forced the LGBT agenda BS and cut funding.

This what the left does.. it’s a cancer and everything it touches it destroys.


3 posted on 11/19/2015 3:04:51 AM PST by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: 11th_VA

Aside from Valerie Jarrett and the black lives movement, who does he have a good relationship with?


4 posted on 11/19/2015 3:10:23 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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Aside from Valerie Jarrett and the black lives movement, who does he have a good relationship with?

Mooch and Lurch. Lurch has a good relationship with everybody, it's his lifework .... as a charley-boy and tennis bum.

And Jeh, and the Communist Party. Don't count out Jeh. </s>

5 posted on 11/19/2015 3:23:13 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: 11th_VA

There is no American “fight” against ISIS, not in the sense of destroying it. Instead, we are engaged in a minimal maintenance program to allow ISIS to remain strong enough to bring down Assad’s government but not let ISIS gain “too much” power. Our game is called Duplicity. By contrast, Russia is trying to destroy ISIS and defend its ally.


6 posted on 11/19/2015 3:45:55 AM PST by Always A Marine
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To: 11th_VA

Obama fired all the brass who didn’t agree with his agenda to gut the military. That’s when the cowards in Congress should have impeached him.
Many Americans will die because Congressmen put their political future ahead of the safety of the country.


7 posted on 11/19/2015 3:58:15 AM PST by txrefugee
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Don’t put it on the military. Congress should remove him from office.


8 posted on 11/19/2015 3:59:24 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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Criticizing president dumass would be a career killer for active duty Generals and Admirals but I’ve heard lots of retired officers criticizing him.


9 posted on 11/19/2015 3:59:29 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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Some historians have concluded that Deng Xiaping, the premier of China post-Mao, actually sent the PLA into Vietnam (Sino-Vietnamese War) knowing that the PLA would lose. His goal was to get the policital upper hand on some of the more truculant pro-Mao generals. I believe Obama has been doing the same thing with his pointless missions and Rules-of-Engagement. One Marxist is pretty much like another.


10 posted on 11/19/2015 3:59:37 AM PST by Tallguy
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Does it really impact the military if the president is a mental defective who regularly dumps on our men and women in uniform?


11 posted on 11/19/2015 4:14:42 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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Our brave Military is under the control of a narcissist that has NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE. Pray for their safety.


12 posted on 11/19/2015 6:05:49 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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