9 million reasons (per day) to come up with a strategy
When you were a young, inexperienced child, what would you have done with an allowance of $9 million a day? You could have had a lot of fun with that, right?
Well, that’s how much the Obama Administration spent per day on the war against the Islamic State from August 2014 through early June 2015. Now, I realize that almost everything costs more than we think it does, and that is probably especially true of high-tech military equipment.
But if the Pentagon is spending $9 million every day to fight a group that seems to be gaining ground all the time, don’t you think it’s about time to put a real strategy into place? About the only thing we’re hearing from our young and inexperienced leader is, “I don’t think we’re losing.” I’m glad he didn’t draw up the D-Day invasion plan.
Following a White House announcement that 450 additional American troops were being sent to Iraq to help train local forces, Senator John McCain of Arizona said, “I remain deeply concerned that this new deployment is disconnected from any coherent strategy to defeat (ISIS). Nearly a year since U.S. airstrikes began, we still have no strategy, we are losing time and ISIS has regained the operational initiative.”
If our elected officials who work side-by-side with the president have no idea what the strategy is, how is the American public supposed to know? If $9 million of our tax dollars are being spent every day for the war against ISIS, I want to know what the endgame is.
Do you think Obama and his people have a real strategy for fighting ISIS, or are they just winging it?
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Really, you want to go there? Bush spent more with no game plan and kept us in there for over ten years without an end game. Plus he killed just under five thousand American troops, for what? WMD’s? Overthrow a regime that brought us Al-Queda and then ISIS? I feel sorry for the troops that unfortunately died in vein in a war that was unnecessary. He should’ve stayed in Afghanistan.
Great liberal answer — totally avoid the actual question and redirect your answer toward something else that you want to complain and critique, rather than what was asked. The question is about Obama, NOT Bush. (And no, I don’t agree with Bush’s war decisions, but this is about Obama’s war decisions or, more correctly, LACK OF THEM.
If you cannot answer the posed question, liberal, then you should just not reply at all and help keep the comments on target. No liberal redirection allowed. Answer the question or be silent, please.
We should have stayed in Afghanistan? Why?
Unlike you liberals / progressives / socialists, we conservatives do not worship our leaders. So yes, we are willing to “go there” and not shy away from reviewing the mistakes of Democrats just because a (fairly liberal) Republican made a similar mistake in the past.
The CIA helped create ISIS in collusion with the Israeli Mossad. So why in the hell would they try to stop it? They created it to destabalize regimes like Syria who oppose the Zionist’s geopolitical agenda. We have been caught by everybody dropping them supplies, not bombs. We protect their illegal oil trade because this is their oxygen. Mean while Russia has been doing what we said we’ve been doing but have not. Why are you asking such stupid questions? Please engage me with real, hard hitting questions. I know the truth hurts, but damn!
You want to defeat ISIS? Stop supporting them and get out of the middle east. The globalists are the real enemy.