My husband has another take on this: he thinks that the BO administration let this out of the bag to take the attention and heat off the faux”extremist” summit, because everyone could see that this was another stupid riff on his community organizing jam.
This Springtime in Mosul is a distraction for the press.
The aiding and abetting part is just more believable, coming from this administration.
I just want to remind everyone about the Iraqi army and what they will be facing.
1. They have plenty of military machinery. And they left a lot of it behind for the jihadist to play with.
2. The officer corp is badly trained. If they are planning the numbers, which I think is around 25,000 troops, they don’t have the organizational ability to lead this number and keep the coordinated.
3. The US military does not have a good relationship with the Iraqi leadership, and does not know if their assistance can trickle down through the ranks.
4. The Iraqi army is rife with corruption.
5. The soldiers literally gave away their salaries to their officers in order not to serve on the front lines.
6. Our state department said that the reason we announced this joint campaign was to warn the civilians, so they can get out of Mosul before the attack.
I say this is a warning to jihadist to harden their defenses.
Having lost the element of surprise, BO and his press corp, can say, later, after the battle is lost, look the weeks of preparation and reporting, well, at least we tried and had good intentions. And it there book, consequences don’t matter, but that they had noble intentions.