{"id":185504,"date":"2014-11-01T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/01\/the-pentagon-wants-its-war-and-now-they-are-waging-a-war-of-leaks\/"},"modified":"2014-11-01T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:50:00","slug":"the-pentagon-wants-its-war-and-now-they-are-waging-a-war-of-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/01\/the-pentagon-wants-its-war-and-now-they-are-waging-a-war-of-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon wants its War, and Now they are Waging a War of Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

We now get leaks of the military complaining that the Obama administration is “micromanaging” operations in Iraq and Syria<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Top military leaders in the Pentagon and in the field are growing increasingly frustrated by the tight constraints the White House has placed on the plans to fight ISIS and train a new Syrian rebel army.<\/span>

<\/span>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.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>Other gripes among the top Pentagon and military brass are about the White House\u2019s decision not to work with what\u2019s left of the existing Syrian moderate opposition on the ground, which prevents intelligence sharing on fighting ISIS and prevents the military from using trained fighters to build the new rebel army that President Obama has said is needed to push Syrian President Bashar al-Assad into a political negotiation to end the conflict. <\/span>

<\/span>The New York Times reported<\/a> Wednesday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel himself is among the critics of Obama\u2019s strategy in Syria. Hagel wrote a memo last week to Rice warning that Obama\u2019s Syria strategy was unclear about U.S. intentions with respect to Assad, undermining the plan.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is going on here is that the Pentagon, including Hegel want the US to move aggressively for regime change in Syria, because they feel that it is their God given right to wage war with, and overthrow, whoever they want.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen what happens if they get their way, the clusterf%$#s that are commonly known as Iraq and Libya.<\/p>\n

The fact that the adults in the White House (there is an expression I never thought that I would say)<\/span> are telling the war mongers in the Pentagon that they cannot topple yet another government just because, they are leaking to the press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We now get leaks of the military complaining that the Obama administration is “micromanaging” operations in Iraq and Syria: Top military leaders in the Pentagon and in the field are growing increasingly frustrated by the tight constraints the White House has placed on the plans to fight ISIS and train a new Syrian rebel army.As …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,986,1006,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-military","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}