Comments on: Is Obama’s ISIS Strategy Made to Fail?

By: davod

davod — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:08:08 +0000

Obama and Co will allow sufficient time so that ISIS/ISIL can be seen to be governing a large swath of what they have taken. Then they will recognize the area as a new country.

Refugees in Turkey are already reportedly saying that ISIS/ISIL is providing services and governing, albeit harshly.

I doubt that civil rights abuse according to Western standards will be an impediment to recognition. After all, the administration is willing to negotiate with Iran, the Taliban, and all sorts of Islamic riff raff.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find that soon the administration will set up a back channel to ISIS/ISIL to advise them to cool it with the Western be-headings until after the country is recognized.

I doubt the administration will be bothered over recognizing a Caliphate. It is a tried and true form of government. The Ottoman Caliphate existed for over 600 years before Kemal Ataturk dissolved it in 1922.

By: Archer

Archer — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:07:31 +0000

I’m curious about (among other things) this strategy to “roll back” ISIS/ISIL. Isn’t a “roll back” a voluntary retraction, initiated from within the organization?

For example, when Walmart “rolls back” its prices, that’s a decision Walmart corporate makes voluntarily, not under pressure from a government, foreign or domestic. How connected is 0bama to ISIS/ISIL, that he can claim he’ll “roll back” their operations and capability?

Or is this just a rebranding of an unpleasant subject under a different name, the way “fighting insurgent combatants” was renamed “kinetic ground operations”?

By: J Motes

J Motes — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:45:43 +0000

Exactly. EVERYTHING he has done for the past six years has weakened America and strengthened Islamists. He’s on the other side and is working hard to help them win.

By: sdharms

sdharms — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:52:19 +0000

actually an air war on Japan seemed to bring capitulation in the last stages. Correct it was not air alone, but air at last. and a special kind of air attack.

By: TheFineReport.com

TheFineReport.com — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 06:07:27 +0000

We have what is, at a minimum, a leftist Laurel and Hardy dumbass couple — and possibly two traitors, and one transvestite — living in the White House. And we have what are corrupt dumbass cowards running the GOP and ‘advising’ them. We also have a cadre of ‘conservative’ talking heads on TV are 6 years behind the curve.

‘Barack Hussein Obama’ (or whoever he really is) and the other demented heads of the democrat party are out to destroy our way of life and the way of life of all free Western nations. Of COURSE Ebola Boy is shilling for ISIS.

By: Walker Evans

Walker Evans — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 06:07:00 +0000

“Bomber” Harris made that point over and over, and after Dresden even he admitted that it had failed. Bombing is a legitimate adjunct to other resources but the most effective of those others has been, is now, and will continue to be boots on the ground. We learned that during the Phillipine insurection; learned it so thoroughly that the Army wrote a book on how to fight insurgents and win!

A century later those lessons and that book were forgotten by the Pentagon. Only a few “radical” officers like Jim Gant remembered and look what happened to him. Weirdly, the tactics in the book, the ones Jim Gant was using, are actually taught at West Point!

Someone needs to sit on The Annointed One’s chest and bring him to reality – if that is even possible – and make him understand we cannot defeat ANYONE without those boots on the ground. It’s called “war”.

By: randian

randian — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:15:30 +0000

Obama wants to aid the jihad while appearing to want to stop it, so he orders ineffectual airstrikes while simultaneously arming a bunch of jihad groups.

By: Henry Hawkins

Henry Hawkins — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:43:42 +0000

I said two weeks ago, right here on LI, that Obama had no intention of accomplishing anything beyond extending the ISIS thing past the midterms.

Obama, late November: “We are not receiving the assistance we needed and were promised in the region and it becomes clear that air strikes alone will not turn the tide. However, I refuse to commit American ground troops to the mission. Therefore, we shall no longer bear a leadership role in the Syrian/ISIS conflict.”

Midterms over, neatly blamed somebody else for my failure, pulled off US forces, pivoted to domestic issues: immigration. Check, check, check.

By: blacksburger

blacksburger — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:43:29 +0000

During World War 2, the air force kept insisting that they could win the war with no troops on the ground. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now.

By: JackRussellTerrierist

JackRussellTerrierist — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:13:40 +0000

Brit Hume……the best.