FWIW I don’t think Zero gets on the phone and tells the Navy to send a carrier into this body of water or that body of water.
I’m sure that the way it works is that the services and the Joint Chiefs prepare certain options and certain recommendations and the president may or may not sign off of them depending on their importance.
Point being that if the ship is in the SOH it’s because the Navy itself worked out a plan to do this - not because Zero thought it up on the golf course.
Obama handlers call Panetta and order him to send a gun to the knife fight, because potus is being taunted by Iran and needs to look “strong and decisive”, even as he further emboldens our enemies and drains the energy out of our presence and image in the region by his ordered retreat from Iraq
for this guy, military strategy - and everything else- is pinned to his poll numbers
It has never been so egregious risky and antithetical to our national interests as with this naive inexperienced immature group of anti-American apologists who see the US military as toys they can wield. This started big time with Clinton and Cohen, now it is nuke-war dangerous
Witness the childish joy of barry reveling in his overuse of Air Force 1