Military What was done is being undone...Iraq

Obama can give his opinion without forcing the US into another situation.

 

I have the solution.
Obama can draw a "red line" out in the desert somewhere and tell ISIS do not cross that line. They will assemble there by the thousands, like everyone else has that's been given a red line.
When they do. Bomb the shit out of them.
Problem solved.

 

every muslim country is not trying to establish a caliphate, ever heard of Turkey or Morocco, not even Jordan.
If Iran is useful with border control, then by all means. But there will be no military cooperation with them.

 

This is the side of the story that the naysayers on energy independence never get too. If we, and our allies did not depend on oil, the rest of the world would not give a rat's ass about what that crowd does to each other in the name of religion. Not even a gnat's ass.

 

I will tell you one thing, Bandar Abbas Naval Base Officer's Club, either 77 or 78. Hottest women I have ever seen. Gold skin. Unbelievable. Trot those dollies out, and the piece...erhh peace process would advance rapidly!

Hangin out with the Shah's nephew. He was cool and knew Uncle Shah was toast. Unfortunately he was later gunned down in Paris. I also remember driving by acres and acres (Sagan's "billions and billions") of American vehicles, all broke and they could not get a spare part, the answer was, "Just by a new one." You know that is BS.

 

Iran is a natural ally. We need to do a better job of convincing them of that.

 

So it's Spec Ops, 100 of them, to collect intelligence and advise the Iraqi's. I don't see anything that a Green Beret, Delta Force, or SEAL can do to help the clueless cowards. It's still boots on the ground no matter how good they are.

" Stand-up fights and doing operational sweeps to regain lost territory doesn't seem in the cards.
In addition Green Berets usually teach counter-insurgency as opposed to classical doctrine so again I have to question this proposal. I do understand the President asking " what's next after?" but of course it's easy to ask that while you allowed the situation to develop. My thinking is Obama tipped his hand during his campaign that we were going to withdraw immediately, the Iraq government that was being formed knew they had to appear independent so why would they agree to to a Forces agreement with the USA. Had we kept our cards closer to the vest we probably would have maintained 10k troops and frankly thats more than enough against these dopes. Many will ask why would we? Let me flat out tell you...we will never be free of that region regardless of the oil issue, we need a base and more importantly to build a clone of what we want out of a arab country on our side in the middle of that den of snakes. We can't use Israel for many reasons and we already paid in blood and coin for that base. Obama just has no vision."