Posted on 02/04/2015 11:41:13 AM PST by Rusty0604
The UAE “ceased its participation because of concerns over a lack of contingency plans to rescue downed aircrew.” Indeed. The whole enterprise against the Islamic State has been poorly thought out and continues to be hamstrung by the prevailing denial and refusal to examine its guiding ideology.
US officials confirmed that the UAE, one of the four Arab states in the anti-Isis coalition, had ceased its participation because of concerns over a lack of contingency plans to rescue downed aircrew….
The UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain joined the coalition when attacks began in September. All have flown sorties against Isis targets, but in the absence of any statistics in US military communiques and silence in their own capitals, most observers believe their participation has been largely symbolic.
President Barack Obama was keen to have Sunni Arab support to avoid the impression that the US alone was fighting the jihadi group. But critics, in Jordan and elsewhere, still attack the operation as an “American war” that is doing little to turn the tide against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria….
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
My mother always said:
“If you fight a piecemeal war,
your enemy is goona make a meal out of you, and
you`re goona come out of it in pieces.”
Possibly they should issue some suicide drugs to the pilots, so if they do go down, they can choose whether or not they want to become fodder for more ISIS propaganda, to say nothing of the suffering they will face.
...ceased its participation because of concerns over a lack of contingency plans to rescue downed aircrew.Guess they didn't hear that Zero doesn't have a plan.
“Possibly they should issue some suicide drugs to the pilots”
How about a change of clothes, a wad of local currency and a pistol? The pistol is dual use, you can save the last round.
Seriously, you can’t blame them for holding back and doing the minimum.
Every country in the region knows not to trust Obama’s competency or truthfulness. He is like one of their own.
ISIS nabbed this poor guy right away and I doubt that he would have even have had the time to kill himself.
What we really need to do is make them so afraid that they don’t even think of doing anything to a captured enemy. Actually, what we need to do is wipe out the town of Raqqa, their headquarters in Syria (since they’re an Obama product, empowered by his war against non-Sunni Muslims in the ME). Give a warning, and blast it to the ground.
I wholeheartedly agree. I’m grateful they were willing to do anything in the first place, given what a touch-hole Obama is.
“.... hamstrung by the prevailing denial and refusal to examine its guiding ideology.”
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Just say it in plain English:
There ain’t no leadership anywhere in the fight against ISIS.
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