Eight military experts weigh in
At his news conference on Monday, President Barack Obama laid down a gauntlet. Just two days after the Islamic State took credit for the recent deadly attacks in Paris, he challenged his critics to come up with alternatives to what he’s already doing to fight the Islamic State.
The president defended his current policy of airstrikes, training and supplying allies, diplomacy and limited ground troops. And he insisted that his critics, except for those who advocate large-scale troop deployment, tend to “describe things that we’re already doing. … I haven’t seen particular strategies that they would suggest that would make a real difference.”
Since then, a handful of 2016 candidates have presented their own ISIL plans, insisting of course that their strategies would indeed make a real difference. But pressed for specifics, many candidates admit that they’d have to consult the military experts once in office.
And so Politico Magazine decided to consult these military experts too, asking them to take Obama up on his challenge: Barring sending in 50,000 troops, what specifically should the administration be doing differently in terms of the tactical and strategic response to ISIL, and how would it make a difference? Here’s what they had to say.
WNU Editor: I am underwhelmed, And no acknowledgement or comment on Russia's military campaign from these experts.
2 comments:
WNU Editor,
If you wiki them, quite the team of losers they assembled.
I couldn't resist. I Googled them.
Everything from career politicians, military and civilian bureaucrats, academic welfare recipients, banana warrior, neoconservative imperialists to a contemporary imagining of Dien Bein Phu.
My dinner barely stayed down.
Fellas, when I run into a lot of this stuff and these types I begin to think that part of a strategy for change (no matter how "lucky" we are over here Editor) is the abolishment of a very large percentage of farm machinery. It seems to me there are a great deal of people over here, many of them in high places, who should be pressed into productive labour as opposed to making careers out of bloviating on our tab.
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