Following a meeting with Iraqi Premier Hayder Abadi during the G7 summit in Germany, President Obama talked up his plans to eventually win the ISIS war, saying the existing strategy was sound but not “complete,” and suggesting that the “complete strategy” would mean further escalation.
Obama declared his main near-term war goal as accelerating the training and arming of Iraqi troops by US forces. The US has sent a number of ground troops to act as “trainers” and “advisers’ in Iraq, and the acceleration will almost certainly mean more boots on the ground.
Obama went on to declare his confidence in Abadi’s continued rule, and said he believes Abadi when he says the loss of Ramadi, the Anbar capital of 500,000, would just be a “short-term tactical gain” for ISIS. Abadi’s promised counter-offensive has already stalled outside of the city.
Launching the ISIS war a year ago, Obama promised no ground troops, a pledge quickly changed to no combat troops. More and more troops are put near the front lines, however, and Pentagon leaders are openly talking about embedding US troops into combat forces as a next step.
Obama has gone increasingly hawkish on the war for months now, but continues to present his position as the moderate one, a fact aided by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) et al. perpetually demanding a ridiculously big ground invasion of Iraq, Syria, and anyone else they feel like.
Obama or the European right wing government including the neo fascism in Europe to Saudi Arabia to CCG and Israel to Turkish Erdogan regime never had a strategy to defeat ISIS but rather for Middle East war and Ukraine so as Yemen and Libya to continued. ISIS can be defeated in matter of weeks if European, Israeli, Turkish, Saudis and CCG oil mafioso stopped buying and feeding them with American made weapons. ISIS simply is their only "friend" that can bring catastrophic consequences for people in middle east in what ISIS barbarism is about. These barbarians are made in Saudi Arabia when their caliphate barbarism was introduced back in 600ac and destroyed many cultures and heritages in Middle East.
No doubt. And it will never make sense until they start dealing with Assad and work with him to stabilize Syria.
I watched this "statement" on TV – I watched his eyes specifically. He wouldn't look directly at anyone – in fact, it looked like his eyes glazed over when he made that admission.
Well, Kerry and B.O. have really stepped in it, up to their eye balls. They think they can fool Joe Sixpack into believing that his kids are not about to be sent on another murderous mission. They also have to convince the McCain Crazies that Uncle Sam is On The March to smash Syria and Iran.
I believe B.O.'s real plan is to continue to let the ISIS barbarians to kill anything that moves as long as they stay out of Baghdad. If he can kick the can down the road for another two years, well, then It's Someone Else's Problem, HaHa!
This will be his way of sticking it to Hillary after he was forced to take her on as Secretary of State.