Yesterday in a press conferance at the G7 meeting in Germany the President admitted that “we don’t have a complete strategy” in regards to fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq, a year-and-a-half after the fall of Fallujah. Yeah, well, tell me something I don’t know. <\/p>\n
The State Department immediately sent out John Kirby<\/a>, their newest talking face who just left the same job at the Pentagon to do it for Kerry, to counter the President’s statement, according to The Hill<\/a>;<\/p>\n \u201cWe do have a strategy, the president was referring to a specific plan to improve training and equipping of the Iraqi security forces,\u201d department spokesman John Kirby said on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n Kirby told the panelists that the strategy covers \u201cends, ways and means.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe ends are very clear, we\u2019ve said this all along, the goal is to degrade and defeat ISIL, to remove them as a threat in the region and frankly, around the world. The ways we are going to do that are through obviously airstrikes. We have to train and equip Iraqi Security forces, this is their fight on the ground. We have to stem the flow of foreign fighters,\u201d he said, using the administration\u2019s preferred acronym for ISIS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, but they’re not real serious about it. I read the other day how four separate airstrikes took out one ISIS fighting position and an anti-aircraft artillery piece. That doesn’t sound like a force that wants to “degrade and defeat” ISIS. I’m not saying that we, the public, need to know what the strategy is, but we do need to see an administration that means what they say. And, oh, by the way, someone should tell the president that we need to see that he’s confident about the way we’re conducting the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"