For some reason people still tend to want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt and believe he's being sincere when he says things - things like 'destroying ISIS - Obama has no intention of destroying ISIS - like everything he does, this 'initiative' is nothing more than a political calculation to make it look like he's doing something because given public sentiment and a stubborn reality that does not much care for his progressive delusions doing nothing is no longer an option - his deeply flawed and misguided world view has backed him into a corner that he cannot get out of and unable or unwilling to rethink his beliefs and challenge his preconceptions he's just gonna fake it for a couple of years until he can hand the mess off to the next president - we know this by inference because of everything he's ever said or done regarding the strategic uses of American power but also factually because of his insistence of 'no boots on the ground' which, as with his application of a withdrawal date to his phoney surge in Afghanistan and his refusal to seriously attempt to negotiate a SOFA with Iraq, is Obama's way of telling us this endeavour is all about politics as far as he's concerned and not some coherent strategic endgame - without boots on the ground all you can do is contain ISIS, and possibly not even that.
The problem [amongst many] is the entire officer class knows Obama is full of shit and although the illusion of containment might hold for awhile, and maybe even long enough to get dumped on the next president, it might also start to fall apart quite quickly making it impossible to pretend that no boots on the ground is a viable option - in other words there'd be a serious disconnect between what Obama says he wants to do and what the military can actually accomplish given the limitations Obama will insist on - and at that point, if Obama refuses to acknowledge facts on the ground, you could really start to see a serious conflict brewing between the Joint Chiefs and Dear Leader - but even if Obama acknowledges the unpleasant facts, grunts still know: it's hard to win if the 'boss' doesn't believe in winning - even great teams can be undone by bad coaching.
The problem [amongst many] is the entire officer class knows Obama is full of shit and although the illusion of containment might hold for awhile, and maybe even long enough to get dumped on the next president, it might also start to fall apart quite quickly making it impossible to pretend that no boots on the ground is a viable option - in other words there'd be a serious disconnect between what Obama says he wants to do and what the military can actually accomplish given the limitations Obama will insist on - and at that point, if Obama refuses to acknowledge facts on the ground, you could really start to see a serious conflict brewing between the Joint Chiefs and Dear Leader - but even if Obama acknowledges the unpleasant facts, grunts still know: it's hard to win if the 'boss' doesn't believe in winning - even great teams can be undone by bad coaching.
