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Pentagon: Maybe General Susan Rice Shouldn’t be Running War on ISIS
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 31, 2014 @ 4:10 pm In The Point | 16 Comments
Apparently appointing a woman whose main qualification is a willingness to tell crazy lies on Sunday morning news shows to run a war is working about as well as you expect it to.
As the American-led battle against ISIS stretches into its fourth month, the generals and Pentagon officials leading the air campaign and preparing to train Syrian rebels are working under strict White House orders to keep the war contained within policy limits. The National Security Council has given precise instructions on which rebels can be engaged, who can be trained, and what exactly those fighters will do when they return to Syria. Most of the rebels to be trained by the U.S. will never be sent to fight against ISIS.
So why exactly are we training them?
Making matters worse, military officers and civilian Pentagon leaders tell The Daily Beast, is the ISIS war’s decision-making process, run by National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
Susan Rice is not qualified to run a war. She’s barely qualified to run her mouth. And her people are predictably tackling the problem in true Obama style.
Officials talk of sudden and frequent meetings of the National Security Council and the so-called Principals Committee of top defense, intelligence, and foreign policy officials (an NSC and three PCs in one week this month); a barrage of questions from the NSC to the agencies that create mountains of paperwork for overworked staffers; and NSC insistence on deciding minor issues even at the operational level.
“We are getting a lot of micromanagement from the White House. Basic decisions that should take hours are taking days sometimes,” one senior defense official told The Daily Beast.
Which is a big problem when you’re dealing with a highly mobile foe who is lightly armed and knows the area.
Pointless micromanagement is typical of panicking bureaucrats who are trying to cover their asses while hoping that no one realizes that they don’t have a clue.
The endless questions and constant delays have always been a staple of Obama at war. He and his people try to pretend that their inability to make a decision is thoughtfulness. It’s not. It’s incompetence.
The overall piece pushes the discredited Free Syrian Army garbage, but its insider view is probably accurate.
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