There was a retired Navy officer that spoke on The President a few months back. He didn't have any real kind words to say. And another one, who had a book out.
It seems that there is a rift that has grown between the military and the President. It seems that the military just wants to handle the business, or has a lot issues with how President Obama wants/is handling ISIL as well other issues foreign and domestic.
This rift is growing even more, with the gun violence and the police shootings.
What we may see here is the widening of the gulf even more. How much? Who knows. But when you have weak leadership/central government and a strong military, things happen.
I don't think the military knows what to do with ISIS. These guys are not centralized in one single spot making them easy targets. They're scattered and hide under the guise of civilians. Like sleeper cells, they get the call and react.
We've tried tactics like this before (see the hunt for Osama Bin Laden) and it cost us Billions of tax dollars and a decade's worth of failed attempts before we finally killed the piece of shit.
The real issue stems from the fact that Obama has been cutting military spending since he entered office (See:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-obama-shrank-the-military-1438551147) and the high-ranking brass of the military, in turn, hates his guts and take jabs at him whenever possible.
There is no perfect solution to these types of situations. The idea that we should bomb first and ask questions later has failed us in the past and we've had to pay dearly as a result (think Afghanistan and how we had to rebuild their nation, when Osama was in Pakistan all along).
I say we take a calculated approach to things. But fuck do I know, I'm just a former marine turned gay financier.
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