{"id":59952,"date":"2015-05-21T11:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59952"},"modified":"2015-05-21T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:26:54","slug":"dempsey-iraqis-were-driven-out-ramadi-they-drove-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59952","title":{"rendered":"Dempsey; Iraqis weren’t driven out of Ramadi, they drove themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hardy-Har-Har. According to Stars & Stripes<\/a>, General Martin Dempsey makes light of the loss of the Iraqi city of Ramadi claiming that the Iraqis weren’t driven out of Ramadi, they drove themselves;<\/p>\n

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Wednesday on a trip to Brussels that Iraqi security forces commanders made a tactical decision to withdraw from Ramadi last weekend because sandstorms prevented U.S. coalition aircraft from mounting airstrikes against Islamic State fighters who swarmed into the city, capital of Anbar province.<\/p>\n

It was the most significant setback in the war against the Islamic State since the militants seized Mosul during last summer\u2019s offensive that overran about a third of Iraqi territory. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, there was sand involved, I’m sure. The problem with Dempsey’s analysis is that we’ve been expecting Ramadi to crumble to ISIS for a month now. While sandstorm may have used for cover the last couple of days, where were the aircraft, the ass-kickings, for the 28 days prior to this last weekend? Yeah, it was the worst loss since Mosul, which was the worse since Fallujah, six months before that. The problem with this administration and the way it’s managing this war is that they aren’t pro-active enough. <\/p>\n

It’s almost as if they aren’t paying any attention to the enemy at all – they have a strategy and they won’t allow changes in the battlefield to detract them from that, no matter how dire the circumstances. It’s not so much that they’re slow to act, they just don’t act.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that Dempsey doesn’t envy his successor having to take back Ramadi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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