“The question isn’t if it doesn’t go well, the question is will we know it?
Think the press will report on it?”
My thinking is that Obama and crew twisted arms of the military commanders and threatened them with defense cuts if they didn’t say they were in favor. So, they won’t say anything if the S hits the fan...
The current troops will be afraid of insubordination, etc...
So, any truth on the matter will have to come from folks who leave the military (unless current troops are able to leak info on things going astray).
I don’t think all hope is lost, but if things do get really bad, the new conservatives in Congress will have really have to press this issue.
The right thing to do would be for the three chiefs of staff who opposed this to resign in protest.
That would be an FU to Congress that needs to be said.