Post by Daniel on Nov 4, 2015 9:28:29 GMT -5
Obama Beats ISIS at Word Games
By Daniel Greenfield November 4, 2015
“Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas. We will never be at war with Islam,” Obama said.
Pelosi assured worried Americans on MSNBC that we were winning the war against ISIS on social media.
John Kerry took to calling ISIS by the derogatory Daesh epithet to prove it has nothing to do with Islam.
But winning the war of word games wasn’t enough to stop the bombings and beheadings. So American troops are back on the ground in Iraq and Syria to try and win the real non-Twitter war.
But we just can’t call it that.
While raids on ISIS targets are the core of the new strategy, they are referred to as “direct action on the ground” instead of “combat”. American soldiers aren’t “boots on the ground”, they’re just there providing “enhanced support”. The kind of enhanced support that only bullets can offer.
They’re fighting and dying as part of an “advise and assist” mission which is not to be confused with the traditional kind of “fighting and dying” mission.
When Obama announced his first withdrawal from Iraq, he left 50,000 American soldiers there who had been renamed the “advise and assist brigades”. During the election he had promised to have “all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.” And he kept his word, by renaming them so that they were no longer combat brigades; instead they were now advise and assist brigades.
Mission accomplished.
“Operation Iraqi Freedom is over,” Obama told Americans in his very own Mission Accomplished speech, a speech that despite ongoing fighting is still bafflingly billed as, “The End of Combat Operations in Iraq.”
“Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended… This was my pledge to the American people as a candidate for this office,” he insisted.
Operation Iraqi Freedom, a tacky Bush name redolent of patriotism, was renamed Operation New Dawn, which might have been anything from a health resort to a brand of fabric softener. There certainly wasn’t anything military or patriotic about it. Freedom was over, but Dawn was here.
Americans went on dying in Iraq. But the war was over. Except it went on anyway.
Five years later, the war is undeniably back on and so are the word games. We’re back to advising and assisting with bombs and bullets. American soldiers are being shot at and dying in enhanced support.
But we won’t beat ISIS with word games.
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www.breakingisraelnews.com/52907/obama-beats-isis-at-word-games-opinion/
By Daniel Greenfield November 4, 2015
“Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas. We will never be at war with Islam,” Obama said.
Pelosi assured worried Americans on MSNBC that we were winning the war against ISIS on social media.
John Kerry took to calling ISIS by the derogatory Daesh epithet to prove it has nothing to do with Islam.
But winning the war of word games wasn’t enough to stop the bombings and beheadings. So American troops are back on the ground in Iraq and Syria to try and win the real non-Twitter war.
But we just can’t call it that.
While raids on ISIS targets are the core of the new strategy, they are referred to as “direct action on the ground” instead of “combat”. American soldiers aren’t “boots on the ground”, they’re just there providing “enhanced support”. The kind of enhanced support that only bullets can offer.
They’re fighting and dying as part of an “advise and assist” mission which is not to be confused with the traditional kind of “fighting and dying” mission.
When Obama announced his first withdrawal from Iraq, he left 50,000 American soldiers there who had been renamed the “advise and assist brigades”. During the election he had promised to have “all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.” And he kept his word, by renaming them so that they were no longer combat brigades; instead they were now advise and assist brigades.
Mission accomplished.
“Operation Iraqi Freedom is over,” Obama told Americans in his very own Mission Accomplished speech, a speech that despite ongoing fighting is still bafflingly billed as, “The End of Combat Operations in Iraq.”
“Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended… This was my pledge to the American people as a candidate for this office,” he insisted.
Operation Iraqi Freedom, a tacky Bush name redolent of patriotism, was renamed Operation New Dawn, which might have been anything from a health resort to a brand of fabric softener. There certainly wasn’t anything military or patriotic about it. Freedom was over, but Dawn was here.
Americans went on dying in Iraq. But the war was over. Except it went on anyway.
Five years later, the war is undeniably back on and so are the word games. We’re back to advising and assisting with bombs and bullets. American soldiers are being shot at and dying in enhanced support.
But we won’t beat ISIS with word games.
continue reading
www.breakingisraelnews.com/52907/obama-beats-isis-at-word-games-opinion/
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