{"id":55113,"date":"2014-09-10T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T12:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55113"},"modified":"2014-09-10T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T17:05:13","slug":"gmafb-really-thats-our-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55113","title":{"rendered":"GMAFB.  Really?  THAT&#8217;s Our Strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/obama-prepared-to-order-airstrikes-in-syria-as-part-of-strategy-against-islamic-state\/2014\/09\/09\/058199e2-3834-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html\">According to the WaPo<\/a>, it looks as if the current Occupant, 1600 Penn Ave, Wash DC, has decided on US \u201cstrategy\u201d for countering ISIS.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strike ISIS in Syria (and, presumably, in Iraq as well),<\/li>\n<li>Apparently with or without the OK of the Syrian government, while<\/li>\n<li>Arming the allegedly \u201cmoderate\u201d Syrian rebels against the current government of Syria, and<\/li>\n<li>Without putting \u201cboots on the ground\u201d (presumably, that means &#8220;more boots on the ground than are already there&#8221;).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and he says he doesn&#8217;t need Congressional approval, either.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that\u2019s gonna work out just swimmingly.\u00a0 Assad is going to love both the violation of his national sovereignty and the US arming some of his foes.\u00a0 And we are also absolutely, positively certain that neither of those actions will cause any short-term or long-term problems.<\/p>\n<p>I trust the sarcasm in the preceding paragraph was obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh. If I\u2019ve <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever<\/em><\/span> heard a more cockamamie strategy to counter a developing threat to US interests in the ME, I can\u2019t recall what that absurdity might have been.\u00a0 Only Jimmuh the Clueless&#8217; strategy of &#8220;encouraging&#8221; the Shah of Iran to grant amnesty to ex-patriot dissidents, then leave in favor of &#8220;Iranian democracy&#8221; (which then promptly allowed that nice fellow called Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return to Iran and ascend to power a few months later, and which was predicted by anyone with half a working brain in the event of the Shah&#8217;s departure) even comes close.<\/p>\n<p>As Harrison Ford said (in his role as Han Solo): \u00a0 <del>\u201cI\u2019ve<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;I got a bad feeling about this . . . . \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the WaPo, it looks as if the current Occupant, 1600 Penn Ave, Wash DC, &hellip; <a title=\"GMAFB.  Really?  THAT&#8217;s Our Strategy?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55113\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GMAFB.  Really?  THAT&#8217;s Our Strategy?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,177,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}