Is The Pentagon And White House Clueless About The War Against The Islamic State?

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The Pentagon Is Officially Clueless About The ISIS War -- Tim Mak, Daily Beast

Where’s the legal justification for the war? Will American troops fight? And who are they really battling? The answers to all those key questions appear to be: TBD.

On this much, all of Washington can agree: the United States is at war with ISIS. But beyond that, the nation’s executive and legislative branches have got nothing.

On the most salient questions of the day—coming ISIS strategy, the president’s legal justification for war, ISIS’s strength, the status of ISIS’s leader—Congressional and administration officials are merely sitting on a pile of questions, with seemingly little unified commitment to find answers.

For starters: No one knows what future strategy against ISIS will look like. CNN reported Wednesday that the president had asked top national security officials to review their ISIS strategy—especially the decision to fight the extremist group without tackling President Bashar al-Assad, too.

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My Comment: I could not agree more with the above post. I have been following the U.S. war against the Islamic State since last year .... and I still do not know what is the U.S. strategy, objectives, endgame, and overall goals in this conflict. I have heard a lot of great speeches and announcements, numerous Congressional testimonies, and even more pundit and expert commentary and analysis .... and they hjave all been recorded and posted in this blog .... but I am still in the dark on what are we doing in the Middle East fighting what is essentially a Sunni - Shiite sectarian conflict. Hell .... the White House is still refusing to recognize the role that radical Islam is playing in this conflict and elsewhere .... preferring to call it anything else but that.