Why The Empty Suit’s ISIS efforts will fail

The headline should read, “Why The Empty Suit’s ISIS strategy will fail.”  That’s the problem.  There doesn’t seem to be a strategy.  There doesn’t even seem to be a clear operational objective.  The administration Dopes are fond of combining the terms “degrade” and “destroy” in the same sentence when referring to what we’re trying to accomplish.  It may sound good but those are two entirely different objectives. 

The only thing the administration has settled on is a “strategy of hope” that the tactic of, what so far has been, a tepid half-hearted bombing effort will destroy and/or degrade ISIS driving them from the field.  As one great military thinker once quipped, “Hope is NOT a strategy.” 

What a strategy might look like: The strategy should be to attack ISIS in Iraq while holding them by the nose in Syria.

Operational objective I:  Drive ISIS from Iraq.  Using Kurdish and reliable Iraqi forces backed by US air power and SF to eliminate organized ISIS resistance from Iraq.  This worked well to get the Taliban in Afghanistan.  The Turks may not like it, but the Kurds are essential to getting ISIS out of northern Iraq. 

Operational objective II:  Concurrent with objective I attack ISIS command and control, reinforcements and material in Syria with air strikes and SF raids against high value ISIS targets in Syria. (Yeah, that’s boots or at least the threat of them on the ground.)

Operational objective III:  Engage in the long war in Syria.  Once driven from Iraq, attack ISIS in Syria.  I would look for means to get a reliable successor to Bassar Assad.  Given the duplicity of people in the region, could we back a military coup Syria.  Get to a general and promise air power and political cover if he organizes the coup.  Then I’d attack Assad from within.  Once Assad is driven from power, then co-opt the Syrian army to take on ISIS.  Vetting and arming the Free Syrian Army for the job just doesn’t seem like a good option to me.  Better to try to deal with a single Syrian military strongman than the myriad of tribal factions of the region.  We’d begin the vetting and training of the Free Syrian Army as an option, but realistically it looks like a 10 year option.   

Oh, we’d need to be prepared to tell the MSM to go to hell when they started to complain about “our military strongman’s” purging process to ensure his security.  It’ll be messy, but isn’t it already messy?  We’d also need to be ready for an Iranian reaction to Assad’s ouster.  We might need to go after them as well.  It’ll have to be done sooner or later, so we might as well get on with it.

I’m not a grand strategist, but I know bombing a few ISIS armored vehicles every day for a short term tactical gain is not a strategy.  Playing small ball rarely get you anything in the Middle East.  Some smart guy has to develop a strategy that gets reluctant NATO ally Turkey on board maybe by the threat of Kurdish expansion if necessary and one that deals with Iran while we’re at it.  Sound like WWIII?  Where are we headed if we do nothing?  Or - worse than nothing, some feckless bombing campaign that serves more as an ISIS recruiting tool than a deterrent to ISIS aggression.

Army looking for women Rangers

Need more proof that the administration and their sycophantic “yes men” who populate the Pentagon are not serious?  Look at this.  Of all of the BS in this story, they save the biggest line of BS for near the end: “All of the course requirements and standards would remain the same.”  We know from experience that that’s BS.  Lower the standard ignore the results will be in play when an unacceptable number of females fail to make the grade.     

Roger!  Quick, get a neck brace!

I saw some of Roger Goodells’ presser on Fri and concluded that Goodell is a dead man walking.  We’ve seen it 100 times.  If you accept responsibility and apologize you’re hammered.  If you lie, deny, defy and attack your critics you stand a chance.  When Trent Lott apologized 17 million times for saying America would be better off had it elected former Dope segregationist Strom Thurmond president, did it do him any good?  Lott’s “offensive” comment came at Thurmond’s 100^th birthday celebration and was meant as nothing more than a throw away line to comfort an old man.  Contrast Lott’s groveling response to rapist Clinton’s.  Billbo, his rape enabling wife and all of their acolytes relentlessly attacked Ken Star.  Billy boy is a hero.  Lott is an asterisk.

My advise to Goodell at this point is to don a neck brace a la Teddy I only drowned one woman in the backseat of car Kennedy and talk about your repeated attempts to dive to the murky bottom of the Ray Rice story.    

So, lemmesee, if you leave a woman – not your wife – to drown helplessly in the backseat of your car you become a Lefty Lib icon re-elected to the senate until you die.  If you rape, assault, expose yourself to, grope and harass a long series of women, the Lefty Libs hail you as the greatest president ever and a senior statesman for the Dope Party and the nation.  In addition they will work tirelessly to get your rape, assault, grope and harass enabling witch of wife elected president.  But, if you fine a guy who has not been charged civilly or criminally with anything half a million dollars, the Lefty Libs will cast you as an ogre and demand your resignation.  Weird huh?