Posted on 06/05/2015 8:53:30 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Finding Islamic State militants to kill is not easy, the top U.S. commander overseeing the air war in Iraq and Syria said.
Air Force Lt. Gen. John Hesterman says U.S. pilots are hitting as many targets as they can find, and to suggest otherwise is simply wrong.
"The thought that we are observing large numbers of Daesh terrorist and not killing them anywhere is fiction," Hesterman said Friday in a rare briefing for Pentagon reporters from his headquarters in Qatar.
"That is patently false," said Hesterman, the commander for U.S. Air Forces Central Command.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
This is what happens when communist purges replace Americans with fellow travelers in the military.
Stated something similar several months ago. These POS string themselves out in long convoys ... strafe the hell out of them ... kill count would be in the hundreds.
However, our CIC is a muslim sympathizer so he would never authorize such a strike.
If this is an official government statement, then it is ipso facto, a lie.
Our field and air commanders need to advance their plans without WH interference , If the WH doesn’t like it , let the entire country know what’s really going on behind the scenes . It’s time to STOP protecting these WH people . They are lucky they are not being arrested for treason ( so far )
Is Hesterman one of 0bama’s boys?
Bullcrap. They had a parade in broad daylight. That should have looked like the Stukas over Dunkirk.
looking at his career , he appears to have been an extremely hard working AF officer .
The problem is not the folks in uniform , it’s the CIV’s that think they control them . Enough already .
Let our forces fight they way they know that can and let the CIV’s back down and STFU . Things are too dire to let these idiots cause our national defeat in the ME .
Our forces have to think & act outside the box
I tell ya ....we should be deploying A-10’s AC-130’s and Apaches , along with napalm . williepete and CBU’s
The gloves have to come off . Take them off boys !
Active Duty ping.
I think that the uniform carries responsibilities and an oath. That oath is not to the CIC first or formost and it is absolutely not to cover fro killing off their own men.
Anyone serving under this pos has a duty to either defend the Constitution and the country or resign.
Huummmm, if you don’t have boots on the ground, you don’t have spotters. Means war will take decades.
The gloves have to come off . Take them off boys !
Ok, thanks for the info, the page details the fact that he’s a career man. I read that our birds come back to base with unexpended ordinance yet he says we’re doing all we can. Are we being denied opportunities to engage, or are we unable to locate targets of opportunity? Who knows who is calling those shots...
we can flood the AO with UAV FACs
24/7
Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett ( and others) are probably calling the shots . Like McNamara and his crowd , from 65 thru 68 .
We should NEVER give Mil planning and strategy over to CIV’s . Clueless idiots . When will we ever learn , and why do we let this happen ?
Because ‘we’ elect lesser evils who allow this crap to go on and think ourselves patriots for doing so. In truth such types only get Americans killed.
So it’s down to “we can’t kill them because we can’t find them” while we can all look at pictures of their parades, convoys and read about the latest town or city they’re slaughtering every day (in UK and other news, not US news)? Wow.
Zero and his minions have done a great job of hamstringing the once mighty U.S. forces. It boggles the mind. Guess what’s coming next is their censored internet so we will only see and hear it the way THEY want us to get it. Then we can rejoice daily in the continual victories against ISIS like the good little brainwashed North Koreans, I mean comrades, we are meant to be.
“Because ‘we’ elect lesser evils who allow this crap to go on and think ourselves patriots for doing so.....”
But they will really, really make a differnce this time. Just one more chance please......
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