Posted on 06/17/2014 6:23:07 PM PDT by kristinn
President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked congressional leaders to meet with him Wednesday as he considers his options in Iraq.
Administration officials tell us the president will make the case for sending a limited number of special forces troops to Iraq.
The president had insisted he did not want to put boots on the ground in the newly flaring conflict but now believes special forces are necessary to develop better intelligence on the Sunni insurgents should airstrikes be ordered.
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I actually think that is a true statement. I thought it the other day after the supposedly friendly fire incident that killed 5 Special Forces members.
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Worst case of testosterone poisoning I have ever seen.
No. We are not going to save obambi from his mistakes.
Focus-group data must have just come in.
The whole of the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier - Prince Otto von Bismark, first chancellor of the German Empire, 1871-1890
Maybe the dipshi* shouldn’t announce his plans or the numbers to the world.
Why can’t he walk in front of a bus with Joe Biden and save the country?
I don’t know. I felt like if a bunch of Muslims couldn’t govern themselves after ten years of blood and monetary sacrifice from us, then that’s too doggone bad.
Their own army runs away—what’s the remedy for that? If only we had stayed and held their hands for another ten years,...We don’t owe them a @#@XX@@ thing. We should have left after we satisfied ourselves that there were no WMD’s in Iraq. If they want to kill each other, that’s not our problem.
James 1:8
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
I do not trust Obama’s judgment on these matters. It’s rough but cut our losses. Once he had surrendered by unilateral withdrawal, it’s over.
I can’t think of another conflict which we did re engage.
Sounds like it will be a target rich environment. Send in the fly-overs.
Put that big-eared SOB on the point.
Today in Congress, pleas were being made to use drones to hit ISIS forces as they travel across desert to cities to conquer.
Why do I get the feeling this will amount to little more than sending some soldiers over, saddled with strict ROEs, just so dear leader can belch about how manly he is.
This on the job training for the Kenyan loser has got to stop.
We have been there and done that under rat presidents in Nam.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1961.html
January 20, 1961- John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th U.S. President and declares “...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to insure the survival and the success of liberty.” Privately, outgoing President Eisenhower tells him “I think you’re going to have to send troops...” to Southeast Asia.
The youthful Kennedy administration is inexperienced in matters regarding Southeast Asia. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense, 44-year-old Robert McNamara, along with civilian planners recruited from the academic community, will play a crucial role in deciding White House strategy for Vietnam over the next several years. Under their leadership, the United States will wage a limited war to force a political settlement.
However, the U.S. will be opposed by an enemy dedicated to total military victory “...whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle...until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified,” as stated by Ho Chi Minh.
May 1961 - Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits President Diem in South Vietnam and hails the embattled leader as the ‘Winston Churchill of Asia.’
May 1961 - President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret ‘Special Advisors’ to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of ‘counter-insurgency’ in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas.
The role of the Green Berets soon expands to include the establishment of Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG) made up of fierce mountain men known as the Montagnards. These groups establish a series of fortified camps strung out along the mountains to thwart infiltration by North Vietnamese.
Fall - The conflict widens as 26,000 Viet Cong launch several successful attacks on South Vietnamese troops. Diem then requests more military aid from the Kennedy administration.
October 1961 - To get a first-hand look at the deteriorating military situation, top Kennedy aides, Maxwell Taylor and Walt Rostow, visit Vietnam. “If Vietnam goes, it will be exceedingly difficult to hold Southeast Asia,” Taylor reports to the President and advises Kennedy to expand the number of U.S. military advisors and to send 8000 combat soldiers.
Defense Secretary McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend instead a massive show of force by sending six divisions (200,000 men) to Vietnam. However, the President decides against sending any combat troops.
October 24, 1961 - On the sixth anniversary of the Republic of South Vietnam, President Kennedy sends a letter to President Diem and pledges “the United States is determined to help Vietnam preserve its independence...”
President Kennedy then sends additional military advisors along with American helicopter units to transport and direct South Vietnamese troops in battle, thus involving Americans in combat operations. Kennedy justifies the expanding U.S. military role as a means “...to prevent a Communist takeover of Vietnam which is in accordance with a policy our government has followed since 1954.” The number of military advisors sent by Kennedy will eventually surpass 16,000.
December 1961 - Viet Cong guerrillas now control much of the countryside in South Vietnam and frequently ambush South Vietnamese troops. The cost to America of maintaining South Vietnam’s sagging 200,000 man army and managing the overall conflict in Vietnam rises to a million dollars per day.
Damn good points! Totally agree!
Damn good points! Totally agree!
So will little barry bath house bastard boy make these spec ops assets stick to his sick, deadly, suicidal ROE? This clown needs to be gone ...
We found WMDs, so stop passing that lie around.
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