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President Barack Obama is unwilling to do anything in his final years as U.S. president that might be contrary to the legacy he wishes to preserve. Thus, he is unwilling to engage the Islamic State group militarily because he wants to be known as the leader who ended American military entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq.
That’s the conclusion of top U.S. special operations commanders meeting in Tampa for a special ops forum.
Despite what Obama may not want to do, the commanders have announced that they are building forces for a fight with the Islamic State group that could last more than a decade.
“We’re patient,” commented Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, head of Air Force Special Operations Command.
“We’re going to have to start thinking of root causes,” added Lt. Gen. Charles Cleveland, the head of U.S. Army Special Operations Command. “We have to try to set the conditions so that an eight-year old today doesn’t become the jihadi in ten years.”
And many special ops officers and troops want to start the fight against the Islamic State group now. They are sick and tired of fighting the group indirectly by remaining behind the lines when advising Iraqis, Kurdish Peshmerga and rebel Syrians who actually go into battle.
“We are doing everything through cellphones,” complained one special operator whose name was withheld.
Many officers at the Tampa forum seemed convinced that Mosul and Ramadi would not have fallen if U.S. military advisers, at least, had been with Iraqi forces on the front-lines.
Explained a former special-ops official, “(The Iraqis) know as long as there are Americans with them … there is intelligence. They don’t have faith in their own chain of command … so rather than being captured and slaughtered by ISIS, they’ll break and run.”
Another official noted that this is a recurring problem. Politicians are sensitive to public reaction by voters when Americans are put in harms way to train another nation’s military forces while the Americans themselves want to fight with those they’ve trained (H/T WZ).
Overall, special ops leaders have put Obama on notice that his failure to allow U.S. military personnel to engage the Islamic State group directly is not acceptable and is likely to lead to more advances by the terrorists.
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Well done on the post kathyet and a good day to you....: )
it needs to be out for all to see for it is not just the Ops Teams with this sentiment, yet they know what needs to be done with ears and eyes fixed and accouterments at the ready. Frustration is understood and lazed leadership the likes not seen since Carter , and a rewrite on Carter may need to be considered even for just a wee little bit. IMHO the next year or so will be some of the darkest times for our country and it is unknown what he has placed in his tool box besides a telephone and a pen.
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