Just a week after his Oval Office address talking up the ISIS war, President Obama made a rare briefing at the Pentagon, following a strategy meeting with military leaders. What followed was a lot of bragging on progress, but little substance.
Obama named off seven ISIS leaders believed to have been killed in recent months, vowing escalations that would kill more in the future, while advancing the dubious claim that ISIS had lost “40 percent” of the populated area it controlled in Iraq.
Obama went on to say that progress needs to come “faster” in the war, but didn’t offer any particulars on how that might happen, only falling back on the old vow that ISIS leaders can run but they can’t hide, while touting his vague plan as foolproof.
Hawkish Sen. John McCain (R – AZ) blasted the comments as “business as usual,” dismissing the visit to the Pentagon as little more than a photo op for the president. McCain has been pushing for a full-scale invasion of Iraq and Syria, while Obama has insisted the war needs to be primarily airstrikes and special forces raids.
Obama has been under growing pressure to show some signs of progress, and this has led to more policy statements like the one today, but with his determination to maintain the same policy, he’s not offering much different with each speech.
That's because he has no strategy. I think Dick Cheney once said:
"you can't win this with bullets."
I wonder if CENTCOM gave the briefing at this "strategy" session? Probably…so things are going well, I guess. How things can be classified as going well all the time when there isn't a PLAN (especially one that will benefit the American people) is beyond me.
As for "photo ops" I guess McCrazy would know all about that – whether it be Syrian "moderate" rebel terrorist headchoppers or American Taliban evangelical bible-toters.
This is because the US backs ISIS and is only engaging in stage fighting and PR to make it seem otherwise. Why – because Israel wants an ISIS victory and the destruction of Syria. So well done the army of the sovereign state of Syria (with many sunnis in its ranks), Russia, Iran and Hezbullah.
> This is because the US backs ISIS
Precisely. Just enough to not kill them anyways
The terrorist that USG or Turkish Erdogan regime are fighting based on economical, political or regional gains in not to defeat terrorism. The Turkish Erdogan regime is after Kurdish people for they want their freedom from Ankara to establish their rights of sovereignty, USG is after its regional proclaimed rights in being the master in Middle East ruling the world economics by taping on energy wher both European and American oil companies are heavily involved. As long as the Turkish Erdogan regime get its almost free stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil the regime will fight Kurdish people and support ISIS by all means.
The newly formed Islamic country against all kind of "terrorists" is not about fighting those terrorists that are supported by Saudis and their allied in fight against terrorists but rather is to fight all kind of democratic movement that are fighting their created terrorists in turkey, Iraq and Syria, Turkish Erdogan regime that killing Kurdish people and has come out of closet and openly supporting ISIS is one of those allies. We said it long time ago: the hegemony of the west since the idea in dividing Yugoslavia by Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright to George W. Bush invasion of Afghanistan and later Iraq to Libya and now Syria is not about democracy but rather expansion of Saudi, Turkish Erdogan religious "democracy" where such regimes will endup to be more or less as ISIS and Erdogan government is proving the concept by cooperating with all kind of terrorism around the world. All these wars are about oil and what is left of it, all these terrorists creations are about governments of all kind to profit from, all these wars are about the western created oil mafia and those who support the wars to profit from people's stolen natural resources and ISIS, Al-Queada, Taliban and all others are their tolls in riching themselves. Meanwhile millions of people that are homeless or dead is not of their concerns, they even make money out of such creation as Turkish Erdogan regime will get paid by the EU stopping refugees to enter Europe.
Strategy? has he ever heard of such a word?
Make a strategy foolproof and NATO will invent a better fool.