Nothing is more unwise for politicians than honesty, and President Obama was caught in a pretty significant moment of candor with his admission that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for the ISIS war.
The comment sparked immediate condemnation from hawks pushing him to escalate the ISIS war even more precipitously, with claims that he isn’t taking the situation seriously enough.
Yet the lack of a strategy isn’t some oversight, like the Pentagon simply forgot to come up with a plan for victory in this huge new war. Rather, it reflects the reality of the situation, that no such strategy for victory even exists.
President Obama’s reticence to escalate the war to the outrageous extent that some want shows at least a modicum of prudence on his part. It would’ve been nice, however, if he’d given such careful thought before launching an unwinnable war in the first place.
Obama’s admission suggests the administration has finally figured out how problematic the war against ISIS is, and is treading water instead of making matters worse.
Unfortunately, if there’s one thing a politician is even less apt to do than tell the truth, it’s to own up to a mistake publicly, and that means the logical next step of extricating himself from the ISIS war is probably not being considered as an option. Instead, President Obama is likely to continue to fight the war, escalating here and there for political effect, and hoping that somewhere along the line some sort of strategy will fall into his lap.
Even more problematic is President Obama’s promise to try to assemble a coalition for the ISIS war, which seems to be doubling down on starting a bad war by dragging a bunch of other nations into it.
Again, this seems to be a sign of desperation related to the lack of any strategy for victory, with the administration hoping, unreasonably, that some other ally brought into the conflict might find the magic formula to transform this from another losing war into a victory.
What we need is a real moment of candor: "Hey, I'm just the front man!"
Billy Bob : "mama I'm ascairt" "ascairt of what, son ?" "Terrists"
The support by the western manipulated and deceitful democracy created ISIS, the root of their policies is when they started cooperating with Saudis and UAE to overthrow and divide Yugoslavia, later in cooperation with Wahhabis in Afghanistan and later in Libya and then Syria, now what we see is the result of that fradulant and falsified democracy by Barack Hussein Obama/English/EU.
Barack Hussein Obama strategy is to create wars without us militarism being involved, where down the road they can make business deals with who ever and what ever. ISIS is 20 billion oil deal which they sale the Iraqi and Syrian nations natural resources to Turkey, to Kurdish and then Saudis and Jordanian kingdom regime. If you have noticed the change in gas price lately with 20/30c is because ISIS sales it cheaper then the market price. So is a horse sheeeeeeeut talk when they say that they don't have a strategy, is their way of washing their bloody hands but making deals with their creation, a Islamic fascist regime as the py do with Neo but modernized fascism in Ukraine wher Joe Biden son got job as one if the Ukraine gas company. Wake up America, once again you been screwed by another fals, fake democrats with his falsified democracy toward nations around the world. He is employeed by the Saudis/UAE to comply with pentagon plan in regime change from Libya to Syria to Iraq and Iran.
If he was serious he would close the bank accounts of a the countries funding this group. If the CIA found out BIn Laden idid 9/11 like 24 hours post, they can find out where to turn off the $$ spigot. Mojo sounds like he is on to something.