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2015-12-21 Home Front: WoT

Chuck Hagel's Astonishing Admission on Syria

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Posted by Fred 2015-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
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#1 "Nothing sleeps as well as a clear conscience."

Posted by Besoeker 2015-12-21 06:19|| 2015-12-21 06:19|| Front Page Top

#2 ...how White House officials and staffers micromanaged Department of Defense decisions

Those who have no history are bound to repeat the mistakes of real history - On Strategy. Micromanagement from the White House, Part Deux.

A big institutional problem of the Left is their fantasy that war is 'unnatural'. Therefore, they don't study it or understand it and when the time comes 'war is interested in you', they fumble so often and keep repeating lessons unlearned.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-12-21 07:30|| 2015-12-21 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 If this is actually what happened, it is an extraordinary case of strategic negligence by the White House.

Most likely is what happened. Anyone watching this train wreck (Obama administration) would not be surprised. It is either negligence by design or by incompetence. Is it time to talk about the "I" word?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-12-21 08:41|| 2015-12-21 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 You left out the 'and/' between 'design or by incompetence'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-12-21 08:43|| 2015-12-21 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 "And" satisfies "or" but point taken.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-12-21 09:15|| 2015-12-21 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 The fact that we have staring us in the face, whether by design or mismanagement or Bush or Obama, is that US meddling in the Middle East only makes matters worse. We need to get the hell outta there and keep those people out of here.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-12-21 12:14|| 2015-12-21 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 We need to get the hell outta there and keep those people out of here.

Alternatively, if there's a compelling reason for us to intervene we should do so with a commitment of nothing less than complete domination of the enemy until completion of the task (to include cessation of the enemy's will to fight).

Posted by Crusader 2015-12-21 12:41|| 2015-12-21 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 If they somehow manage to make it out of their little box and strike us in our own homeland then by all means put the hurt on them. But no more nation building.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-12-21 14:55|| 2015-12-21 14:55|| Front Page Top

#9 AU, they're hitting outside their box now, you are aware. Also, remaining engaged in theater, even remaining in theater, is not the same as nation building.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2015-12-21 15:09|| 2015-12-21 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 They're only hitting outside their box because our feckless leaders allow them to do so. That's the other part of what I'm saying: Keep them out of here. You don't accomplish that by getting bogged down in Syria. The way to do that is by stopping Muslim immigration and denying visas, rounding up the people who are here with visa from those countries and deporting them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-12-21 17:52|| 2015-12-21 17:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, we've tried nation building and it's not worked well, so instead let's try nation destroying. If we have to intervene, go in and leave nothing but smoking, repeatedly bounced rubble.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-12-21 20:27|| 2015-12-21 20:27|| Front Page Top

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