“The U.S. military campaign against Islamic militants in Syria is being designed to allow President Obama to exert a high degree of personal control over the campaign, going so far as to require that the military obtain presidential sign-off for any strike in Syrian territory.”<\/p>\n
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“The requirement for the Syrian strikes will be far more stringent than those in Iraq, at least at first, to assure the Syrian air campaign remains strictly limited, in an attempt to mitigate the threat that the U.S. could be dragged more deeply into the conflict, according to the U.S. officials.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The lesson of the 1st Gulf War was supposed to be that the politicians explain their goals to the generals and the generals are allowed to fight the war to attain those goals. The lesson of Vietnam was supposed to be that politicians can’t plan and fight wars as well as the soldiers. But everything old is new again with this administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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