Obama Warns Of Extended Campaign Against ISIS -- Time
The President makes his first public comments on the U.S. military campaign in Iraq since returning from vacation.
President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday that the United States would not rest until it brought to justice the killer of American journalist James Foley at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).
“Rooting out a cancer like [ISIS] won’t be easy and it won’t be quick,” Obama told an audience of veterans and their families at the American Legion National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. a week after the extremist group released a video showing the graphic execution of Foley by an ISIS fighter. These were Obama’s first public comments on the conflict since returning from vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.
Read more ....
Update: Obama: U.S. Combat Troops Will Not Return to Iraq -- US Department of Defense
My Comment: A long campaign but no U.S. boots on the ground .... call me skeptical.
It is easy to lose track of time, just one month ago Obama asked congress for half a billion to give to Syrian rebels. ONE MONTH. This article in the WaPo was written exactly a month ago. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/06/27/obama-wants-500-million-to-train-syrian-rebels-now-what/
ReplyDeleteThe administration has been flailing since then, caught completely unaware by ISIS.
What will the country back or the CINC do when a spec ops guy gets captured?
ReplyDeleteWe see how bananas people go over a reporter. will they be just as incensed when an operator gets killed?
Operators are very good at their job, but in the fog of war things can go to crap. What will the JV president do?