{"id":59371,"date":"2015-04-20T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59371"},"modified":"2015-04-20T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:02:55","slug":"not-symbolic-ramadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59371","title":{"rendered":"“Not symbolic” Ramadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dempsey<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The other day, while speaking to Congress, Joints Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey told the legislators that the fall of the Iraqi city, Ramadi to ISIS fighters, is “not symbolic in any way”. I wonder if General Dempsey realizes that he sounds just like Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, or as he’s more popularly known in this country, Baghdad Bob. That kind of rhetoric is commonly referred to as “sour grapes”.<\/p>\n

Every loss of every city in Iraq to ISIS is symbolic. It’s certainly going to be used as a recruiting tool by ISIS, if nothing else rises to the level of “symbolic”.<\/p>\n

Well, Dempsey certainly pissed off our buddy, Debbie Lee<\/a>, the Gold Star Mother of a SEAL killed in Ramadi in 2006; <\/p>\n

I am shaking and tears are flowing down my cheeks as I watch the news and listen to the insensitive, pain inflicting comments made by you in regards to the fall of Ramadi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city itself is not symbolic in any way\u201d? Oh, really? Are you willing to meet with me and with the families who have lost a son, daughter, husband, wife, father, mother, aunt, uncle, grandson, or teammate?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know Dempsey was trying to say that the fall of that city wasn’t strategically important, but he made a poor choice of words. It was certainly symbolic to ISIS and it’s symbolic in that the strategy of this administration in this war against ISIS doesn’t seem to be working if the Islamic State can muster enough military force to take a city.<\/p>\n

By the way, a few thousand Iraqis<\/a> thought it was symbolic enough to leave the city and become someone’s refugee problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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