Friday, January 29, 2016
No surprise to anyone
The Pentagon "Brain Trust" has decided that more troops, more equipment and MOAR WAOR is needed to beat DAESH because what else do we have in the arsenal?
Pentagon officials have concluded that hundreds more trainers, advisers and commandos from the United States and its allies will need to be sent to Iraq and Syria in the coming months as the campaign to isolate the Islamic State intensifies.And there is a steady stream of young officers who need to be blooded before being sent off to their Imperial outpost commands. One could wish that given his lame duck status, this would be the perfect time for President Obamato tell the "Brain Trust" to fuck off and fire the more obnoxious ones. After all, this is the only answer they ever come up with.
In meetings with President Obama’s national security team in recent weeks, military officials have told the White House that they believe they have made significant progress in the fight against the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria, administration officials said. But to deal a lasting blow to the extremist Sunni militancy, also known as ISIS and ISIL, they believe that additional forces will be needed to work with Iraqi, Kurdish and Syrian opposition fighters on the ground in the two countries.
In the past, the Pentagon’s requests for additional troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan have been met with skepticism by Mr. Obama, and his aides have said he has resented what he has regarded as efforts to pressure him. But the rise of the Islamic State has alarmed the White House, and a senior administration official said Thursday that the president is willing to consider raising the stakes in both Iraq and Syria.
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