U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, with U.S. President Barack Obama on the second and final day of the NATO summit at the Celtic Manor resort near Newport in Wales on Friday.
Obama Rejects 'Best Military Advice' in Fighting ISIS -- Weekly Standard
In deciding how to destroy ISIS, President Obama has rejected the "best military advice." The advice was recently given to the commander in chief from his military leaders.
"Responding to a White House request for options to confront the Islamic State, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said that his best military advice was to send a modest contingent of American troops, principally Special Operations forces, to advise and assist Iraqi army units in fighting the militants, according to two U.S. military officials," the Washington Post reported just hours after Obama's address to the nation last night.
"The recommendation, conveyed to the White House by Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was cast aside in favor of options that did not involve U.S. ground forces in a front-line role, a step adamantly opposed by the White House. Instead, Obama had decided to send an additional 475 U.S. troops to assist Iraqi and ethnic Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.
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My Comment: So the next question that needs to be answered is .... whose military advice did President Obama finally take? Was it from the intel community, other military advisers, his political advisers, or did he ignore everyone and the military strategy was in the end only formulated by him.
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Your comment goes to the heart of the matter. This is a question that has hung in the air over this White House on almost every single foreign policy decision it has made.
Valerie Jarrett?
Valerie Jarrett is President Obama's confidant .... so definitely .... there is input from her on this.
You have to look at it this way; this is not a "military" strategy, it is a "political strategy" with military window dressing. This Administration has never had a military strategy beyond "let's get out of there before something bad happens", which makes their moves a little more understandable.
They really really thought the world would see how wonderful they were and revert to singing their praises everlasting. It never dawned on them evil would just follow them home. And evil is evil for it's own reasons and doesn't care what these people think.
I have nothing good to say about Valerie Jarrett except maybe she does not beat her daughter. I have no ideal.
You do not have to have formal military training to become proficient at military science. Oliver Cromwell, John Knox and Joshua Chamberlain or examples of this truth.
Nothing in her education (psych and law), professional life (low income housing landlord with a contentious reputation & big city apparatchik), or temperament and study shows that she has studied military science or had the desire to learn it as an autodidact.
Yet, she involves herself in these decision to the detriment of the U.S. IMHO.
Book bombshell: Obama canceled Bin Laden ‘kill’ raid three times at Jarrett’s urging
http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/29/obama-canceled-bin-laden-kill-raid-three-times-valerie-jarrett/
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Knox
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