Zero to nowhere: Obama’s Syria-Iraq ‘policy’ leaves reality behind | Theoptimisticconservative's Blog

Posted by: theoptimisticconservative | October 26, 2014

Zero to nowhere: Obama’s Syria-Iraq ‘policy’ leaves reality behind

Syria is burning. (Image: AFP via BBC)

Syria is burning. (Image: AFP via BBC)

New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!

Posted in Coalition operations, Diplomacy, General military, Great power geopolitics, Political commentary, Strategy, Strike operations, Terrorism, US Foreign policy, War | Tags: Baghdad, Battle of Baghdad, Damascus, Damascus interior corridor, Euphrates corridor, Geopolitics, International security, Iraq, Iraqi Kurds, ISIS jihadist group, ISIS jihadist strategy, Islamism, Jordan, kesselschlacht strategy to destroy ISIS, Kobani, Kurds, Libya, Middle East, Military, National defense, Obama has no strategy to defeat ISIS, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Samantha Power, Statesmanship, Strategy, Susan Rice, Syria, Syrian Kurds, Terrorism, Turkey

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