The level of discourse in Washington regarding the fight against ISIS is low even by the standards of that city. Let's start at the bottom: we have president Obama repeatedly telling the country that there will be no American troops in the fight. That then morphed into no American troops with combat missions. Of course, everyone else in the administration (except for Josh Earnest, the White House Spokesman) is saying that troops might be needed depending on the circumstances and that we cannot win without using American troops on the ground to smash ISIS. So we have the president blatantly telling lies to the American people and looking like a fool doing so. Even worse, he is doing this to protect himself from criticism from the peace at any price wing of the Democrat party. Is there anyone in the Code Pink cavalry that accepts the nonsense Obama is peddling? I doubt it.
Then there are the politicians who are busy voting for a war that they will surely lambaste as ill advised and "not in America's national interest" once the election is over. Think of senators like Alaska's Mark Begich or North Carolina's Kay Hagan. Suddenly they are hawks in the fight against terrorism? Really? Two beheaded journalists make all that difference? I doubt it.
Then there are Republicans like Rand Paul who is busy criticizing others like John McCain. The story is that McCain supposedly met with ISIS when he went to Syria last Memorial Day. McCain denies that and has offered some very specific info about with whom he met. No matter the truth, Paul holds to his criticism. It is as if once Paul decided that he had to support the effort against ISIS, he decided that he needed to attack McCain in order to keep his separate identity. While I don't like McCain and think he is often too fast to advocate armed conflict as a solution to every problem, he does not deserve to be attacked in this phony way by senator Paul.
Last night on Fox's Special Report, there was an interview with the head of foreign affairs of the Kurdish regional government of Iraq. Once again it was confirmed that Kurdish forces, who are the only ground forces that are actually taking the fight to ISIS, have received no heavy weapons or ammunition from the USA or its allies. Days, weeks and months have passed since the ISIS attacks began. It was long ago that Obama told us that the USA would help arm those who oppose ISIS. But still no weapons have gone to the one force that needs those weapons the most. Instead American weapons have gone to the Iraqi army in Baghdad which never actually uses those weapons against ISIS.
It is time that we bring some order to this chaos. Otherwise, the war with ISIS will be lost due to incompetent leadership.
Then there are the politicians who are busy voting for a war that they will surely lambaste as ill advised and "not in America's national interest" once the election is over. Think of senators like Alaska's Mark Begich or North Carolina's Kay Hagan. Suddenly they are hawks in the fight against terrorism? Really? Two beheaded journalists make all that difference? I doubt it.
Then there are Republicans like Rand Paul who is busy criticizing others like John McCain. The story is that McCain supposedly met with ISIS when he went to Syria last Memorial Day. McCain denies that and has offered some very specific info about with whom he met. No matter the truth, Paul holds to his criticism. It is as if once Paul decided that he had to support the effort against ISIS, he decided that he needed to attack McCain in order to keep his separate identity. While I don't like McCain and think he is often too fast to advocate armed conflict as a solution to every problem, he does not deserve to be attacked in this phony way by senator Paul.
Last night on Fox's Special Report, there was an interview with the head of foreign affairs of the Kurdish regional government of Iraq. Once again it was confirmed that Kurdish forces, who are the only ground forces that are actually taking the fight to ISIS, have received no heavy weapons or ammunition from the USA or its allies. Days, weeks and months have passed since the ISIS attacks began. It was long ago that Obama told us that the USA would help arm those who oppose ISIS. But still no weapons have gone to the one force that needs those weapons the most. Instead American weapons have gone to the Iraqi army in Baghdad which never actually uses those weapons against ISIS.
It is time that we bring some order to this chaos. Otherwise, the war with ISIS will be lost due to incompetent leadership.
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