{"id":68016,"date":"2016-09-19T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68016"},"modified":"2016-09-19T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:10:04","slug":"mission-creep-angers-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68016","title":{"rendered":"Mission creep angers Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Times<\/a> reports that “mission creep” in Syria has “pissed off” military commanders involved in the war against ISIS;<\/p>\n

[The deal for U.S. military cooperation with Russia] forged by Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart could, for the first time, broaden the American-led air campaign\u2019s target list to include al Nusra, the notorious al Qaida-linked group that is a major actor in the multi-sided Syrian civil war. Until now, the two-year-old U.S. air campaign in Syria has been limited to ISIS.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could be massive mission creep,\u201d said Josh Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. \u201cThe military is pissed off because they\u2019re being asked to do two jobs now. They were asked to do one job, which is kill ISIS. Now John Kerry is asking them to do another job, which is cooperate with Russia and kill al Nusra.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Russians are worried that al-Nusra is a danger to the Syrian President Assad, so they want help from the US to blunt that danger. But that’s in contradiction to the US over-arching strategy to replace the Assad government. Commanders are worried that assets better used against ISIS will be redirected to assist the Russians in their overarching strategy to keep Assad in charge.<\/p>\n

But, you know, that’s what we’ve come to expect from John Kerry making deals with folks – he doesn’t want to clear up issues apparently, he just muddies the water making things more difficult for folks on the ground, the people most directly affected by his “successes”.<\/p>\n

All of this could have been avoided if this administration hadn’t added troops by drips and drabs. Like Desert Storm, we didn’t attack Hussein in Kuwait and Iraq until we had a force to do it in the theater. But this administration doesn’t want to look like it’s going to war, you know, Nobel Peace Prize winners that they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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