With president Obama in charge, it has seemed more and more things have gone wrong. Lately, Obama's performance has been so bad that I decided that it just could not get worse. Today, however, something happened that is so maniacal that I am truly flabbergasted. The White House announced on a "background briefing" that there will be a ground attack to retake the city of Mosul in Iraq from ISIS beginning in or about April and lasting until June when the holiday of Ramadan starts. The attack will be carried out by roughly five brigades of Iraqi ground forces who will approach Mosul from the South with three brigades of the Kurdish peshmerga forces blocking from the North to prevent any help arriving for the ISIS defenders of the city.
I say again; I am flabbergasted. America's leader is telling ISIS and the world of a planned major attack on ISIS. So much for the element of surprise. There is now no chance that ISIS will be unprepared for the attack. Indeed, giving ISIS two months warning of the attack allows the terror group ample time to wire bombs all over the city to be detonated when the Iraqi forces make their way into the city. How many more Iraqi soldiers will die because of that warning? It's going to be more than a few; that much is certain. Will ISIS take other countermeasures to prepare for the attack? Certainly! We may even see ISIS start to round up those in the city whose loyalty to ISIS is suspect. Most likely, we will see some additional bonfires of these people being burned alive while ISIS still controls the region. How many suicide bombers will sneak into Baghdad to detonate themselves in public areas once the attack on Mosul begins. ISIS can inflict chaos on Baghdad given this much advance notice.
Why would the US government possibly preannounce the attack? The reason given by the Obamaton who spoke on "background" is that Obama wants to put maximum pressure on the Iraqis to actually launch the attack on Mosul without any delay beyond April. It's a bizarre reason. Only in Obama's Washington could we have government officials who think that the Iraqis will care what is said in the American media if they miss the timing of the attack. Only Obama could think that a strongly worded article in the New York Times or the Washington Post pointing out how the attack is late would be something that any Iraqi leader would care about.
Now think about this: imagine a government leader who told the media in April of 1944 about the coming invasion of Europe in Normandy in June of that year so as to make sure that Eisenhower and his generals did not delay the attack. That's the same thing that is happening here. Of course, in 1944, whoever gave out that information would have been tried and convicted of treason and then shot. Today, however, the same move is thought of a some sort of smart policy move, at least by the president.
One last question: why is the attack going to stop on Ramadan if ISIS is not really Islamic?
I say again; I am flabbergasted. America's leader is telling ISIS and the world of a planned major attack on ISIS. So much for the element of surprise. There is now no chance that ISIS will be unprepared for the attack. Indeed, giving ISIS two months warning of the attack allows the terror group ample time to wire bombs all over the city to be detonated when the Iraqi forces make their way into the city. How many more Iraqi soldiers will die because of that warning? It's going to be more than a few; that much is certain. Will ISIS take other countermeasures to prepare for the attack? Certainly! We may even see ISIS start to round up those in the city whose loyalty to ISIS is suspect. Most likely, we will see some additional bonfires of these people being burned alive while ISIS still controls the region. How many suicide bombers will sneak into Baghdad to detonate themselves in public areas once the attack on Mosul begins. ISIS can inflict chaos on Baghdad given this much advance notice.
Why would the US government possibly preannounce the attack? The reason given by the Obamaton who spoke on "background" is that Obama wants to put maximum pressure on the Iraqis to actually launch the attack on Mosul without any delay beyond April. It's a bizarre reason. Only in Obama's Washington could we have government officials who think that the Iraqis will care what is said in the American media if they miss the timing of the attack. Only Obama could think that a strongly worded article in the New York Times or the Washington Post pointing out how the attack is late would be something that any Iraqi leader would care about.
Now think about this: imagine a government leader who told the media in April of 1944 about the coming invasion of Europe in Normandy in June of that year so as to make sure that Eisenhower and his generals did not delay the attack. That's the same thing that is happening here. Of course, in 1944, whoever gave out that information would have been tried and convicted of treason and then shot. Today, however, the same move is thought of a some sort of smart policy move, at least by the president.
One last question: why is the attack going to stop on Ramadan if ISIS is not really Islamic?
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