There has been much justifiable ado over Obama's admission that he had no strategy to deal with the advent of I.S.I.S., although he's known about it for over a year. He now says he has a strategy and that he's going to announce it Wednesday, after he meets with Congressional leaders to discuss it on Tuesday.
You now what? I don't want to hear his damned strategy.
In the first place, whatever comes out of his mouth is about as trustworthy as a pig in a poke. In the second place, no military-minded President would want the enemy to know what his strategy was. If your enemy knows what your strategy is, he knows in advance how to defeat it. Telling I.S.I.S. what his strategy is going to be is somewhat akin to treason, the giving away of national secrets or aiding and abetting the enemy.
Your strategy needs to be a surprise designed to catch your enemy off guard. That's where I think George Bush failed miserably, because he announced to the world for months on end that unless Saddam allowed full and complete searches for weapons of mass destruction by the U.N., we intended to go into Iraq and get them. We eventually ended up in Iraq and guess what? No weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
If you say we're going to go after I.S.I.S. headquarters and training camps in Syria, do you really expect them to park their camels there and wait for us?
I don't know which is more dangerous, to admit to the world that you have no strategy at all or that you do have a strategy and then to tell them what it is.
But then again, the country didn't elect Obama because of his military prowess; it elected him because he was a handsome, black, smooth-talking con artist.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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