You know what I love about Obama's Syria foreign policy? No U.S. soldiers coming home in caskets, and no trillions of dollars getting tossed into a wasteland. Stick to drones and air strikes. And if Russia wants wants to waste their time there, they can go ahead.
Yet.....he has now made it even worse and insured that the casualty count in the future will be in the 10s of thousands, instead of stopping it with arms and training..........
Look at hitler......you guys back then said the same thing....no soldiers dying to keep hitler out of Austria, or the other countries...."Peace in Our Time,"...and how did that work out in the end.
Allowing aggression by thugs only increases the aggression by thugs.....until it costs a lot more lives to finally put an end to it.....
Okay. So which thugs do you want to support over there? Iran, ISIS, Russia, or Al-Qaeda? It's a very black and white world to you cons so it should be easy to pick one.
We should kill all the ones who are the problem....and support the ones who believe in living in peace with other people....Iran gets whacked, isis, and al queada that is a good place to start.....and we should support whoever is over there who will do that.....no U.S. troops needed...
And ISIS is not losing, so Obama and the next President may badly need Russia to help soon.
More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.
The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.
Some of those CENTCOM analysts described the sizeable cadre of protesting analysts as a “revolt” by intelligence professionals who are paid to give their honest assessment, based on facts, and not to be influenced by national-level policy. The analysts have accused senior-level leaders, including the director of intelligence and his deputy in CENTCOM, of changing their analyses to be more in line with the Obama administration’s public contention that the fight against ISIS and al Qaeda is making progress. The analysts take a more
pessimisticview about how military efforts to destroy the groups are going.
The complaints allege that in some cases key elements of intelligence reports were removed, resulting in a document that didn’t accurately capture the analysts’ conclusions, sources familiar with the protest said. But the complaint also goes beyond alleged altering of reports and accuses some senior leaders at CENTCOM of creating an unprofessional work environment. One person who knows the contents of the written complaint sent to the inspector general said it used the word “Stalinist” to describe the tone set by officials overseeing CENTCOM’s analysis.
Many described a climate in which analysts felt they could not give a candid assessment of the situation in Iraq and Syria. Some felt it was a product of commanders protecting their career advancement by putting the best spin on the war.
Some reports crafted by the analysts that were too negative in their assessment of the war were sent back down the chain of the command or not shared up the chain, several analysts said. Still others, feeling the climate around them, self-censored so their reports affirmed already-held beliefs.
In recent months, members of the Obama administration have sought to paint the fight against ISIS in rosy hues—despite the terror army’s seizure of major cities like Mosul and Fallujah.
Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
