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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nOur President laid out his plan for the war against ISIS last night, our third deployment of troops to Iraq, the fourth consecutive President to deal with Iraq, the first time without Saddam Hussein being the problem.<\/p>\n
He laid out four points – the first is to expand air strikes into Syria, the second is to put 475 more troops on the ground. He emphasized that they don’t have a combat mission in Iraq. But it brings the number of US troops on the ground well over a thousand. He also wants to expand their mission to training Syrian rebels.<\/p>\n
Thirdly he wants to do more to cut off ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State’s resources including the flow of foreign fighters to the battle. He could probably start with the Americans who are joining. His fourth point is to provide humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n
The President wants the US to lead a “broad coalition” of allies and unfortunately for all of us, that hinges on the success of John Kerry who has been a miserable failure in the past few months. Obama reiterated that this new mission to Iraq will not include ground combat forces and will be completely dependent on air forces and support from advisers on the ground.<\/p>\n
The only encouraging part of his entire little speech is that he used the word “destroy” twice when talking about his plans for the Islamic State. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say he was going to destroy any of our nation’s enemies before. So we have that going for us. But, then there’s John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, the only guys in the Obama Administration who make Joe Biden look smart. Actually, if Kerry is worth even one small turd, he should be able to convince the Gulf States to provide direct support on the battlefield just to protect their little kingdoms.<\/p>\n
The situation in Syria will be confusing though. He still wants to be rid of Assad, but Assad’s government is fighting ISIS, too. As with everything else with this administration, they dithered too long on the Syria question. How do you fight one group of Syrian rebels while training and equipping another group of Syrian rebels. I suspect that will be the most dangerous aspect of this operation for the US troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"