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2015-09-17 Home Front: Politix

Obama Needs an ISIS War Czar Before It's Too Late

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 As commander-in-chief, the bammer is the war czar. What we need is a new commander-in-chief. Come on January 2017.

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Big Foot4718 2015-09-17 00:15|| 2015-09-17 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Today, absent a course change, that is precisely the trifecta that Obama himself is set to bequeath to the next president unless he makes immediate changes.

Did Messrs Fontaine and Serchuk consider the possibility that "structural incoherence" might be the strategy and Mr. Obama bequeathing the "trifecta" to his successor might be the objective?

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-17 02:00|| 2015-09-17 02:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Ditto Pappy. If you turn the baseball field into a trout pond, people will soon stop coming to the games. Behavioral change has always been Champ's goal. Any guesses as to what might be prompting or encouraging his efforts? Could 'hope & Change and 'affirmative action' be enablers ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-17 06:06|| 2015-09-17 06:06|| Front Page Top

#4 We don't need another frickin czar. Czars are just un-American. We need a Commander-in-Chief with a spine and we need to unleash a general such as George Patton if we have such a person in today's PC climate. Where's that guy, what's his name? Oh Yeah, General James Mattis, the guy that said: "I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all." He might want to amend this quote to say, "I'm coming to kill all you MFns terrorists. No nation building this time."

Posted by JohnQC 2015-09-17 07:25|| 2015-09-17 07:25|| Front Page Top

#5 "Czars" are political cover for not wanting to make decisions. Studies, staff meetings, et al are largely because the person occupying the position doesn't want to make the call, but certainly wants the pay, perks, and titles that go with the office.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-17 09:08|| 2015-09-17 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 We don't need a czar, we need a CIC.

And it is already too late.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-09-17 11:35|| 2015-09-17 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Another howler:

The opposite of this approach is what ensued during the Bush administration’s disastrous first year in Iraq, when the slapdash Coalition Provisional Authority and an equally slapdash military headquarters stumbled from crisis to crisis, largely disconnected from each other, without a campaign plan.

Left out of the equation was a passive-aggressive State Department that was fundamentally opposed to the run-up of OIF, tried to scuttle the initial moves into Iraq (they had a major role in Turkey's refusal to allow the 4th ID in,) and had no desire to either administer or support efforts to rebuild the Iraqi government.

Subsequently that fell to the military, which proved the adage that one can use a screwdriver as a chisel and vice-versa, but neither is much good at their original purpose after prolonged use.

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-17 11:44|| 2015-09-17 11:44|| Front Page Top

#8 What Darth said but with the observation that POTUS IS THE ISIS WAR CZAR. He owns this crap sandwich regardless of the MSM saying otherwise

Posted by Rex Mundi 2015-09-17 14:52|| 2015-09-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#9 how long till Obama gets voted out?

Posted by anon1 2015-09-17 18:32|| 2015-09-17 18:32|| Front Page Top

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