Now what?

 

 

"Just when you thing thinks could not get any worse, they do..."

What now is the right question. ISIS, ISIL, or whatever these murdering thugs want to called this week are on the move again. Actually, their movement has never stopped. Even though the WH Press Secretary, the Valley Girls at the State Department, and even POTUS tell us we have the bad guys on the run. Please, spare me!

So now this group of thugs has the Iraqi air base at al-Baghdadi surrounded. This base is just northwest of Ramadi in the very turbulent Anbar province That area of Iraq is a "ground zero" for the ISIL insurgency. And to make matters a whole lot worse, we have deployed 320 of our brave Marines into that hot zone to help train the Iraqi soldiers at the air base.

For reasons unknown to most thinking people, our current POTUS is bound and determined to practice the antithesis of the Powell Doctrine. For those who cannot remember what then General Powell said about war fighting which led to his doctrine, let me try to paraphrase:
"I hate a fair fight. If you have to go to war, you go in with overwhelming force. You find the head of the snake and kill it."

Our current Commander-in-Chief believes in the "pin-prick" game. Just put your little toe in the water. During the Gulf War, General Powell and his team threw everything at the Iraqis but the kitchen sink. Result - the war was over in a matter of days. If we had used the Powell Doctrine at the start of the ISIL insurgency, I dare say it would have been over months ago. And thousands of innocent lives would have been spared.

To protect our Marines in al-Baghdadi, we are going to have to do something and do it fast. Capturing or killing dozens or hundreds of our Marines would be a sweat prize for ISIL. If I were the Commander-in-Chief, I would saturate the air base at al-Baghdadi with our finest soldiers and equipment. If ISIL wants to fight, bring it on. We can certainly take the fight to them. For far, far too long, we have sat on the sidelines and watch these thugs get their way. We have watched them illegally occupy territory which is not theirs to occupy. We have seen them commit brutality and carnage on a host of innocent people. Enough is enough! (Please excuse my language) It is time to kick some ass!

I am still burned up over the loss of our embassy in Yemen. The fact our Marines were ORDERED by the State Department to surrender their weapons to the invaders. Just a reminder to our State Department - you had no authority to issue that order. Furthermore, (and the State Department should know this by heart), our embassies abroad are sovereign. In other words, what happened in Yemen was an attack on this country. Our response to that attack? Strategic patience - the new term in our Administration for the way we operate. Translated version for the citizens who care about this country - no nothing as Rome continues to burn.

This next week might be very telling. This country is still very capable of unleashing hell on those who deserve it. Bullies need to be stopped, they need to be punished, they need to be killed. To do this, we just need to get the pilot of our plane to man up, get some guts, and take us down the right path.