Richard Engel, The Battle against ISIS (click here)
"Why We Did It," The Invasion of Iraq (click here)
That said, the only thing Mr. Engel did tonight was to sell the need for Western Muslims to join ISIS and defeat every other group in the region, including the USA. That means more young people will lose their citizenship in Europe and North America for empathizing with a brutal, totalitarian regime known as ISIS.
"Why We Did It," The Invasion of Iraq (click here)
That said, the only thing Mr. Engel did tonight was to sell the need for Western Muslims to join ISIS and defeat every other group in the region, including the USA. That means more young people will lose their citizenship in Europe and North America for empathizing with a brutal, totalitarian regime known as ISIS.
Remember this? I do. I very clearly remember this.
General Eric Shinseki stated very clearly the numbers of troops needed to make an invasion into Iraq successful to allow for all the needs of the people would require AT LEAST 200,000 troops.
That was ONLY Iraq. Now add to that Syria. The numbers of troops goes up.
There are about 30 thousand members of ISIS. It would seem as though General Hayden is as delusional about military reality today as when he was pumping up the egos of "W" and Cheney. Not that Cheney needed much pandering to his ego, but, I think I make my point.
The USA needs to begin to plan to remove our ADVISORS from Iraq in a timely fashion and soon. Why? Because we aren't going to make a damn bit of difference if the Region doesn't do their part to end the most brutal regime the Middle East ever saw. More brutal than any caliphate in any history books.
Hayden states his estimate is to send in 5 or maybe 10 thousand American troops into Iraq and Syria to END THIS.
I don't think so, Mr. Hayden.
The USA has a strategy and it does not plan for vast deployments of our military. The strategy is to disarm the Islamic State from any and all munitions and war machines obtained from Iraq's military abandonment of their posts.
When the COLLECTIVE known as the Iraq government needed the military to stand up it ran and it ran as far and fast as it could. Some died anyway, but, they died without even raising a finger or pulling a trigger or yelling to their comrades "Where do you think you are going, they'll kill us anyway."
The fact of the matter is the American people are being spoon fed NUMBERS of USA troops to 'get used to' having the USA 'back at it' again.
Today, Nusra Front was suppose to ally with the Islamic State. That brings the numbers to how many exactly.
The USA is disarming the region of billions of dollars of American provided equipment so there is a more level playing field for those that actually want to fight for their land. But, the people of the region have to fight. Land to the region is no longer a gift provided by American Blood and Treasure. It is called national building and it has cost the American people trillions of dollars for what reason? To have their young Muslims starry eyed with the promise of a caliphate like Mohammad wanted for them, run away, abandon their citizenship and attend to a hateful regime that will kill absolutely no differently than the Taliban. If al Qaeda has failed to make connections with the Islamic State is because there is no difference between them and the Taliban and why would the Islamic State want to give it all up to the Taliban.
The success of the USA strategy is not about killing people, it is about establishing AUTHORITY that will actually protect the sovereignty of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain, Iraqi and Syrian Kurds, Qatar, Sunni Sheiks in An Albar and Jordan.
Up to now the USA has been the world's police. No more. In order for the USA to WIN this conflict it will have to commit itself to a forever war because the more American forces kill people in the Middle East, the more war there will be and the USA and it's citizens stand as ground zero for nut cases like al Baghdadi.
No more. The region has to fight this with allies from Europe and the USA. They will never be alone or without others that care about their sovereignty or the well being of their people. But, from where I stand the countries of the Middle East know exactly what is going on there and are more than capable of defeating those that want to harm them.
Tell me for one minute Saudi Arabia ever had a problem with sovereignty or keeping the peace within the kingdom. NOT ONE DAY. And that was with the USA killing people in Iraq every day from March 2003 to December 2011.
There was no case made by Mr. Engel for the USA to ever send troops into Iraq or Syria. It was war correspondence at best.
