The decision to double the number of US ground troops in Iraq, and to send those new ground troops to the front line has been a significant escalation of the ISIS conflict, and one President Obama has presented as a “new phase” of the war.
The timing, less than a week after the mid-term election, was seen as deliberate, as the administration had sought to keep the controversial new war out of the political drama in the lead-up to the vote, and Congressional leaders were desperate to avoid any debate of the conflict before the election.
But beyond further escalation, the administration’s plans for the war itself are as murky as ever. It keeps growing, as do the stated goals, but how the US military will actually get there remains largely unstated, and seemingly unknown.
To the extent officials have plans at all, they are as tight-lipped as ever. Without the excuse of the elections, it is less likely that they are simply holding their cards close to their chests, and more likely that they just don’t have a strategy at all.
At least not a strategy for victory. The administration does have a strategy for escalation, and that simple involves doing more and more.
It's as good as any other "strategy". What would a MadMcCain strategy look like anyway? Throw more money at the problem, and more troops on the ground to die. Some strategy.
Can anyone explain when was the last time that obama had clerafication of his policies toward anything? Look, the idea is for ISIS to exist which is the reason for USG/British/Turkish and all other not doing enough or not willing for Iran and Syrian government direct involvement. That is to say if ISIS can be taimed and put on a leash as their dog to follow their orders, otherwise rest of the BS talks are just a political maneuvering with no clarifications whatsoever. US military call itself the world superpower, when such a superpower with most sophisticated and technological advantages and almost a million manpower armed up to their teeth with ammunition, is not used nor is able to defeat 30.000 saudis barbarians, there is something wrong, when USG calling itself the world only democracy or at least pretending to be the one and still not using nor supporting legitimate governments as the iranians and syrian to defeate these saudis barbarians, then there is something wrong with being a superpower or calling itslef the only democracy in this world.
Strategy — Maximize profit
Same as it was in 1948, when we created Israel to be a terrorist state, to maximize the explosion of bombs, so that we may maximize the profit in trading Middle-East oil for bombs.
Empire wars that never end in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, always with some new kind of battlefield strategy that never works, surely my educated guess is the only scenario that fits to perfection.
To — mojo
Western democracy is the educated upper half of society always voting to enslave by poverty the laboring-class lower half, So, surely Empire USA would have to be called a Democracy, for it is the most corrupt form of government the world has ever known.
Thank you.
"At least not a strategy for victory."
That has not been part of the plan from the beginning of the 1st modern era Crusade. The plan, to me, has always been to instigate turmoil between the sects of Islam in the ME and then continue to fan the fire of extremists – regardless of who or how many innocents die or are displaced.
The fact that the USG took a rather favorable world opinion after WWII and completely reversed it is despicable. The fact that it has endangered generations of Americans everywhere in the world should be grounds for execution. The first action by the Obama Administration in January 2009 should have been to open war crimes trials against those responsible, going back decades for what his predecessors did to America. He had the chance to prove that no one is above the law…and he failed – and then signed on to the plan. SPOS.
You have that right curmudgonvt, it's not called the Empire of Chaos for no reason. Fits perfectly with the neo-Trotsky, neo-con agenda.
Reminder: Trotsky's doctrine was "permanent revolution" and though the likes of Leo Straus switched sides to 'capitalism', he/they kept the strategy … hence the never ending wars on anything conjured up and set up, such as Al Qaida, but now IS since the former wore a bit thin.
Entertaining to remember that the Democrats always used to attack Nixon during the Vietnam war by saying it was all his fault because he didn't just abandon the place. Now Obama is doing the same as Nixon in the Middle East.