Thursday, September 4, 2014

Strategy

There has been a lot of bru-ha-ha about Obama not having a strategy to deal with ISIS.  First, the vast majority of the media wouldn't know a strategy if it hit them in the mouth.  A strategy can be pretty simple...means and ends.  But it's in the detail that the strategy comes alive.  Second, it's not surprising that even if he had something, he wouldn't share it.  And I'm positive that DOD has shared potential courses of action that would make up the strategy.  Third, he does have a strategy.  I think the analysis here is spot on.  It's retreat.  Get out.  Pivot to Asia.  Grovel to the Euros.  Give a glancing nod to Africa.  But forget about the Middle East and get out.  Let them do what they will to each other.  Minimize the specter of the proliferation of evil to the West.  Because after all, it won't happen before 2016...

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