Nothing succeeds like success
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BAGHDAD – Hundreds of ISIS fighters had just been chased out of a northern Syrian city and were fleeing through the desert in long convoys, presenting an easy target to U.S. A-10 "warthogs."
But the orders to bomb the black-clad jihadists never came, and the terrorists melted into their caliphate -- living to fight another day. The events came in August 2016, even as then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was vowing on the campaign trail to let generals in his administration crush the organization that, under President Obama, had grown from the “jayvee team” to the world’s most feared terrorist organization.
That was the second time Obama had an opportunity to crush ISIS and went golfing instead. They were lined up in multi-mile long convoys when they entered Iraq several years before and nothing was done.
But the orders to bomb the black-clad jihadists never came, and the terrorists melted into their caliphate -- living to fight another day. The events came in August 2016, even as then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was vowing on the campaign trail to let generals in his administration crush the organization that, under President Obama, had grown from the “jayvee team” to the world’s most feared terrorist organization.
That was the second time Obama had an opportunity to crush ISIS and went golfing instead. They were lined up in multi-mile long convoys when they entered Iraq several years before and nothing was done.
It's amazing what can be done when effective leadership is in place to enable the military to do their jobs.
Obama and his administration was completely inept in the Middle East. The Defense Department spent half a billion dollars to train a literal handful of Syrian soldiers who had no meaningful impact in the ISIS fight.
He was more concerned about optics than results, which is weird because the long list of failures looked really bad.
It didn't help that he hired a bunch of academia types and journalists who ran the war from their WH cubicles.
Hey man, don't you know those are the smartest people in the world?
