{"id":60778,"date":"2015-07-08T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60778"},"modified":"2015-07-08T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:40:50","slug":"pentagon-asks-senate-for-patience-in-war-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60778","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon asks Senate for patience in war against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the other day when the president made a “rare’ visit to the Pentagon and the whole internet was a-buzz about it and how we were finally going to get a strategy from the President – then when it happened all we heard were the same old platitudes? Well, Ash Carter, the Secretary of Defense and out-going Chairman of the Joint Chiefs martin Dempsey went to the Senate yesterday and laid out their strategy to stall Congress, much like they’re stalling in the war against ISIS. From Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Only 60 moderate Syrian fighters have been trained this year, but recent gains in the country by U.S.-backed militias show the strategy can work, Carter told skeptical senators on the Armed Services Committee. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., committee chairman, called claims about success delusional.<\/p>\n

Carter and Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey came to Capitol Hill to make the administration case for the current war strategy a day after President Barack Obama underscored the importance of training ground forces and allied militias on a rare trip to the Pentagon. The administration had a strategy meeting on the often uneven, year-old Islamic State offensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is going to take some time to get the numbers up to the point where they can have an effect,\u201d Carter told senators.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

60 Syrian fighters. That should have a real impact in this war, won’t it? The other day, we learned that were about 3,000 Iraqi and Peshmerga soldiers in the pipeline, you know, because everyone gets their own personal trainer. And 60 Syrians. <\/p>\n

Dempsey, reminding us that he has been ROAD (Retired On Active Duty) for years said that he’s not making any recommendations that the President doesn’t want to hear;<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree there are points on the battlefield where embedded forces\u2026would make them more capable,\u201d Dempsey said. \u201cI can tell you I have not recommended it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, basically, we’re just going through the motions of being concerned about ISIS without actually doing something because we don’t want to tip over the President’s legacy applecart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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