Jacob Siegel, Daily Beast: An Iraqi General’s ‘Plan’ To Retake Mosul Is A Fantasy
The desire may be there, but the troops are not. Baghdad’s nowhere near ready to liberate ISIS’s de facto capital in the north.
Make no sudden moves seems to be an imperative of the current administration’s policy toward Iraq. Big announcements, like the one this week that 450 additional troops will be sent to assist the Iraqi army as advisors, turn out to mean less than the initial press release suggests. Only 50 of those soldiers are actually advisors, the remaining 400 are a security detail. But while the U.S. appears to be managing expectations and hunkering down for a long war marked by setbacks and slow progress, Iraqi leaders may have other plans in mind.
The Iraqi general leading the operation to retake Mosul, the Islamic State’s de facto capital in northern Iraq, told The Daily Beast exclusively this week that the offensive will be launched sooner than expected and definitely in less than a year.
WNU Editor: One has to wonder if U.S. plans and strategies are also based on "fantasy" .... U.S. Military Not Eager To Support President Obama's Islamic State War Strategy.
The above BBC video report on Mosul is a must see.
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Breaking a special State Department announcement on Iraq and future US strategy.
https://youtu.be/AULOC--qUOI
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James .... that is one hell of a young Kenny Rogers.
Speaking of music. James ... I am in heaven right now. This evening my GF just gave me a gift of 2 LPs from the group The Association. (She found it in a record shop that just sells LPs). Damn .... I loved listening to their music in the 1970s.
https://youtu.be/Iq5bUnvKq94
WNU,
And they are wearing long pants too.
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