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Woodward: Military Upset Susan Rice Telling Generals How To Fight
2015-02-09
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday,” veteran journalist Bob Woodward said people in the military are complaining to him that the Obama administration has no strategy to defeat ISIS other then having people like Susan Rice “micromanage” military responses.

Woodward said, “If you talk to people in the White House and the military, I think there’s agreement and John McCain is right and General Flynn is right, there is no strategy. They have not sat down and said this is where we want to go and this is how we want to do it. And the measure of that, when you head into the weeds here, people from the White House are micromanaging the tactical situation on a daily and weekly basis. That’s not their job. They have to kind of do strategic planning and say what do we want to accomplish in the next year.”

When host Chris Wallace asked, “Wait a minute, are you saying that — forgive me, Susan Rice, is telling the generals what to do?” Woodard confirmed it by saying, “And they have got all these people in the White House. You talk to people in the military who are there and they say ‘we are being micromanaged and we’re not given a real plan to say what are we going to do here.’ And it’s not the way to run a war or try to win a war.”
Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp1540

#7  Officers of the United States.

The Senate confirmed your rank.

Unlike Susan Rice.

Object to her orders and resign,

or fuck you.

Officers of the United States.
Posted by: rammer   2015-02-09 22:46  

#6  Well, how to do something is always "so obviously simple" to those who've never done it. Look at LBJ, McNamara, Susan Rice, Obumbles. All pretenders without any practical knowledge or experience.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2015-02-09 17:47  

#5  The regime's foreign policy is akin to whack-a-mole with nerf mallets and much apologizing for that.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-02-09 17:09  

#4  "we'€™re not given a real plan to say what are we going to do here"

The White House has a plan for fighting IS; it involves Iran. Since Syria is in Iran's sphere of interest, part of it is ensuring that the military doesn't make significant changes to the equation in that region.

As far as the regime's foreign policy overall and specifically its dealing with the flare-ups in rest of the world, well, that would take much more bandwidth.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-02-09 11:31  

#3  Looks like we are stuck with this incompetent twit for the duration unless Congress can figure out some squeeze play. This woman should never have been anywhere near government--should have been chasing stray dogs out in the boonies somewhere at best.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-02-09 10:05  

#2  Micromanagement. Covered in the seminal work On Strategy: The Vietnam War in Context, Harry Summers. Why should this administration be worried by (the follies of human behavior) history when it has shown it has no use of it in any other field (see-effect of socialism).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-02-09 08:54  

#1  Don't know if they are still there or not, but next to the very long runway at the LBJ ranch there used to be a small array of makeshift communication huts where staffers and other gov't personnel would monitor events in Vietnam. Appears we've learned little in over 50 years.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-02-09 03:49  

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