Tuesday, September 16, 2014

OBAMA'S TEN ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE ISIS WAR

Obama’s Sort-of War
In his view, the current debacle has nothing to do with his own errors and omissions.
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Victor Davis Hanson
How can we account for the apparent flip-flopping of the Obama administration about what we are doing, or might do further, to the Islamic State?
At times the secretary of defense seems at odds with the secretary of state. The administration seems not to be reacting to its own intelligence information about the Islamic State. Nor is it heeding the professional advice of the Joint Chiefs or top-ranking military officers in the field. Instead, in the run-up to the midterm elections, Obama appears to be guided largely by a stubborn adherence to his own past political truisms, and that explains the current inability to articulate a strategy or craft a coalition.

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