Posted on Nov 24, 2015
Why Is America Losing Faith With Our Strategy Against ISIS? Three Key Factors Explain The Public's Growing Lack Of Confidence
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The American public is rapidly losing confidence in our Nation's ability to combat ISIS and it comes down to three key factors: perception, cooked books, and the reality on the ground. BLUF: The public perception is that ISIS is growing in strength and influence despite what the Administration keeps telling us. Whenever we hear about our effectiveness in combating ISIS, we learn months later that the estimates and figures fed to us were grossly inflated. Lastly, it's hard to dispute the reality on the ground, with things like an international refugee crisis in Europe, bloody attacks in Paris, and the downing of a Russian passenger liner. The question remains, what can and must we do if the public is to regain confidence in our fight against ISIS? Is it even possible, or must it now wait until a new Administration takes office in 2016? What say you, RP Nation? Is this a winnable fight?
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This is almost a rhetorical question: Why Is America losing faith with our strategy against ISIS? In short, because there isn't one. And if there is, it, like so much else in our country nowadays, it's a fucking joke. That's how far out of touch our leadership and our sense of reality is. Seven years of complete incompetence and fecklessness across nearly every sector of concern. Arguably, foreign policy, again, not that we have one, is among the worst. For the record, I never had faith in Operation Inherent Resolve. In fact, I referred to it as Inherently Flawed. I stand by that sentiment. Having this Administration formulate policy, such as it is, on anything at all is a recipe for disaster.
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We'd have to kill absolutely every person with ISIS's ideology to truely win. Terrorism is the "poor man's" way to wage war, ISIS knows they could never win a force on force confrontation. so they spread out and do something here and something there... its like herding cats.
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The public has lost confidence?
I have lost confidence.
It is painfully apparent to me that the powers-that-be have absolutely no interest in committing the resources to be decisively engaged. They are simply trying to hold serve until it becomes the next administration's problem.
I have lost confidence.
It is painfully apparent to me that the powers-that-be have absolutely no interest in committing the resources to be decisively engaged. They are simply trying to hold serve until it becomes the next administration's problem.
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Perhaps it is the lack of understanding of how the desired end state will be achieved with the resources provided under current guidance and plans...
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There's a desired end state? That would require a mission statement...
And I haven't heard one yet.
And I haven't heard one yet.
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MAJ Hoiland, Sir; I feel its the lack of leadership in Washington.. Congress fights itself.. Then they fight with the President ?? just who is minding the store ??? Americans are tired.. This administration is not helping...
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Is it a winnable fight? Yes, but we have to look at the results we're getting with current methods and evaluate if there is a better method which will achieve better results.
What can and must we do if the public is to regain confidence in our fight against ISIS? We (our administration) needs to tell the truth and stop shooting itself in the foot. It needs to stop giving us ROE that keep us from winning.
Is it a winnable fight? Yes, but we have to look at the results we're getting with current methods and evaluate if there is a better method which will achieve better results.
What can and must we do if the public is to regain confidence in our fight against ISIS? We (our administration) needs to tell the truth and stop shooting itself in the foot. It needs to stop giving us ROE that keep us from winning.
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Because we have no strategy. ISIS is only annoying for Obama because it interferes with his desire to just change things domestically. Thus he has not worked out any desired end state nor a strategy to get there.
You are not going to destroy ISIS by bombing them. You can degrade their capabilities and make them have a bad day, but to really destroy them someone has to go in on the ground. Obama has said we will not, at least in any major way. We are busy dispersing all the moderate Syrians to the four corners of the globe, so they are not going to be fighting to get their country back. So in Syria that just leaves Assad or Al Quada. In Iraq you have the Kurds, but Obama will not arm them directly, only through the corrupt Iraqi government. So I guess that just leaves Russia or the Europeans.
You are not going to destroy ISIS by bombing them. You can degrade their capabilities and make them have a bad day, but to really destroy them someone has to go in on the ground. Obama has said we will not, at least in any major way. We are busy dispersing all the moderate Syrians to the four corners of the globe, so they are not going to be fighting to get their country back. So in Syria that just leaves Assad or Al Quada. In Iraq you have the Kurds, but Obama will not arm them directly, only through the corrupt Iraqi government. So I guess that just leaves Russia or the Europeans.
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For a lot of us, our faith was lost when the State Department failed to negotiate a status of forces agreement that would have allowed us to keep troops in Iraq. We knew at that moment that Iraq was doomed.
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MAJ Steve Smith
You are spot on. A couple of BCTs wouldn't have saved the world but the associated ISR would likely has contained it in Syria.
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All these airstrikes and to what result? I am sure the effect has been dire on ISIS but we don't release body counts. The second ISIS attacks Paris, we get a count (updated by the hour) on the number of killed and injured.
The public has no idea of what we are actually doing to combat the enemy outside of 'more airstrikes today'.
The public has no idea of what we are actually doing to combat the enemy outside of 'more airstrikes today'.
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Excuse me, but at least five high-ranking adminstration people have distinctly said for the world to hear that "we have no strategy." Obummer, Biden, Kerry, Carter, and Earnest. Americans have NO faith in these people and scores more, not in a non-existent strategy.
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LCpl Mark Lefler
well part of that problem is the republicant congress doesn't want to actually fight ISIS it costs too much money and oh my god forbid the president is allowed to do anything.
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