Remember the brouhaha after president Obama gave his first ISIS speech, the one in which he announced that the USA would be doing air strikes against the terror group? For the next two weeks, there was a major back and forth in the media and in Washington as to whether or not these attacks were part of a war. John Kerry and Susan Rice said that the USA was not at war but rather was engaged in a major anti-terror operation. Finally, the silliness of not calling it a war led to a concession from the White House that yes, the country was at war with ISIS.
For quite some time after that "war or no war" bickering, I wondered how it could be that president Obama and the Obamacrats could have allowed that sort of nonsense to go on. Well now I know for sure. The truth is that Obama and his people really do not consider the country at war with ISIS. All that is happening is that America is launching a few desultory air strikes to harass ISIS, but not to attempt to destroy the terror group or even to stop them from advancing across Iraq and Syria.
Here's the proof: we got numbers today that during the first two months of the campaign against ISIS, the United States and its allies have launched about 400 sorties to strike the terrorists. (A sortie is a flight by one plane to carry out a military mission.) By comparison, in 2001, when the USA supported the Northern Alliance in its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, we launched over 10,000 sorties in the first two months. Even in Kosovo in the late 1990's when the Clinton administration had American forces bomb the Serbs who were conducting "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkan state, we had at least fifteen times more strikes during the first two months of action. Remember, both of those operations consisted of American air power supporting troops on the ground that came from other countries or groups. This is exactly the template that Obama is supposedly following in Iraq and Syria.
The numbers of strikes by American planes during the first two months tells any observer of the scene that president Obama is not serious in his commitment to destroy ISIS. This operation is being undertaken for show rather than to achieve a military purpose.
There is only one word for the conduct of Obama in this regard: DISGUSTING. If he does not want to engage ISIS, then he should honestly tell the American people of his decision and explain how he came to it. Instead, we are getting lies from the president; he says we will destroy ISIS, but then he refrains from taking any action that might lead to that result.
For quite some time after that "war or no war" bickering, I wondered how it could be that president Obama and the Obamacrats could have allowed that sort of nonsense to go on. Well now I know for sure. The truth is that Obama and his people really do not consider the country at war with ISIS. All that is happening is that America is launching a few desultory air strikes to harass ISIS, but not to attempt to destroy the terror group or even to stop them from advancing across Iraq and Syria.
Here's the proof: we got numbers today that during the first two months of the campaign against ISIS, the United States and its allies have launched about 400 sorties to strike the terrorists. (A sortie is a flight by one plane to carry out a military mission.) By comparison, in 2001, when the USA supported the Northern Alliance in its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, we launched over 10,000 sorties in the first two months. Even in Kosovo in the late 1990's when the Clinton administration had American forces bomb the Serbs who were conducting "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkan state, we had at least fifteen times more strikes during the first two months of action. Remember, both of those operations consisted of American air power supporting troops on the ground that came from other countries or groups. This is exactly the template that Obama is supposedly following in Iraq and Syria.
The numbers of strikes by American planes during the first two months tells any observer of the scene that president Obama is not serious in his commitment to destroy ISIS. This operation is being undertaken for show rather than to achieve a military purpose.
There is only one word for the conduct of Obama in this regard: DISGUSTING. If he does not want to engage ISIS, then he should honestly tell the American people of his decision and explain how he came to it. Instead, we are getting lies from the president; he says we will destroy ISIS, but then he refrains from taking any action that might lead to that result.
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