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Team Obama’s B.S. ISIS Body Count
[DailyBeast] It sounded so authoritative, when a top B.O. regime official claimed this week that the U.S. killed roughly 10,000 bully boy in its fight with the self-proclaimed Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
. Until that figure was contradicted by a second official. And then undercut by a third.

Not only could B.O. regime officials not agree on the final corpse count, they could not say how they determined such a figure with no ground forces in Iraq and Syria to assess Arclight airstrike damage. Nor could those officials articulate how well such a statistic measures progress against the terror army.

By the end of the week, many administration officials were admitting a defeat of sorts. They conceded that it was foolish to talk openly about body counts in the first place, when dead fighters are such an irrelevant measure of the conflict.
So they finally learned a lesson from Vietnam, did they...
"The killed in action and other activities should only be measured in how much those deaths affect ISIS's capability to conduct operations, how it affects its maneuvering, its logistics, its command and control, or impinge its effectiveness to maintain the initiative and conduct operations," said retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Derek Harvey, who testified last month before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the U.S. strategy.

Or as an adviser to the U.S. military on its campaign against ISIS explained to The Daily Beast: "These are the types of numbers that novices apply."
The journalist clearly does not think highly of this approach. More at the link.

Posted by: trailing wife 2015-06-08
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