Pentagon: Maybe General Susan Rice Shouldn’t be Running War on ISIS

U.N. Appeals Tribunal session

Apparently appointing a woman whose main qualification is a willingness to tell crazy lies on Sunday morning news shows to run a war is working about as well as you expect it to.

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.

So why exactly are we training them?

Making matters worse, military officers and civilian Pentagon leaders tell The Daily Beast, is the ISIS war’s decision-making process, run by National Security Adviser Susan Rice.

Susan Rice is not qualified to run a war. She’s barely qualified to run her mouth. And her people are predictably tackling the problem in true Obama style.

Officials talk of sudden and frequent meetings of the National Security Council and the so-called Principals Committee of top defense, intelligence, and foreign policy officials (an NSC and three PCs in one week this month); a barrage of questions from the NSC to the agencies that create mountains of paperwork for overworked staffers; and NSC insistence on deciding minor issues even at the operational level.

“We are getting a lot of micromanagement from the White House. Basic decisions that should take hours are taking days sometimes,” one senior defense official told The Daily Beast.

Which is a big problem when you’re dealing with a highly mobile foe who is lightly armed and knows the area.

Pointless micromanagement is typical of panicking bureaucrats who are trying to cover their asses while hoping that no one realizes that they don’t have a clue.

The endless questions and constant delays have always been a staple of Obama at war. He and his people try to pretend that their inability to make a decision is thoughtfulness. It’s not. It’s incompetence.

The overall piece pushes the discredited Free Syrian Army garbage, but its insider view is probably accurate.

  • kasandra

    You can take this with a grain of salt, and I don’t know that even if true it is as a result of this micromanagement, but I did hear this morning that one of the Joint Chiefs has had it and is about to resign. Maybe that will get the White House’s attention.

    • Scar

      No big deal. General Susan Rice can take his place. We need more diversity on the JCOS anyway. By the way, is she a lesbian? That would be even better.

      • Pete

        If she was a lesbian it would be Trifecta!

        • truebearing

          What are the odds that she isn’t? Being in the Obama administration is a leading indicator.

          • Pete

            Even if you double the normal chances, I would assume that she is not.

  • Scar

    Well, look at the positive side of things: ISIS will constantly gain more ground, infidels will be savagely slaughtered, and American military hardware will wind up in the hands Muslim radicals. Of course, that’s the positive side of things from the Obama Administration’s point of view.

  • The March Hare

    Makes one wonder what this will evolve into in two more years. It’s a big enough mess as it is now. If this is how they are running things, two more years may make the world a serious situation and an all out world war.

  • Pete

    If Valerie Jarrett can run overall U.S. policy, then Susan Rice running military policy is par for the course.

  • cree

    Agreed. Since she is barely qualified in running her mouth, maybe her running as a general should be reconsidered. Never mind; forgot who is running… Never mind. If she screws things up, Obama (Jarrett?) will move her to a new position, likely a promotion.

  • bob e

    military just sits there .. they all could say “NO” and mebbe send a seal
    team to ft b’s golf course on a saturday ..

  • http://MyBlackBookMag.com/ Noah David Simon

    for some reason the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland comes to mind

  • truebearing

    Susan Rice…another vacuous ideologue with an inflated resume, a bloated ego, a supercilious smirk, and a vacant stare. Like the rest of Obama’s minions, and Obama, she leap-frogged past the Peter Principle into the realm of infinite incompetence. She couldn’t referee a pillow fight at a sorority house much less prosecute a “war” on ISIS.

    Obama’s Coalition of the Pretending has turned out to be the utter farce we all figured it would be.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    One really smart uberman should be able to run the world in peace and prosperity if we all just believe in science and the beauty of central planning.

    • truebearing

      But scientists are a quarrelsome lot. How will we “settle” the science?

      • objectivefactsmatter

        That’s why we need to identify the messiah.

  • Chris Gait

    I’m almost sure all ISIS is angry about is that awful video about Islam that she said caused Benghazi. i’m sure Susan Rice is the best person to handle this. After all, Jimmy Carter is retired.

  • carpe diem 36

    She was chosen because she represents Obama and his administration very well. She is what they are and she is good at lying with a straight face.Yes, she is not qualified to even running her mouth, as the article states, but she does, just as Obama is not qualified to be president and he is. Two of a kind.

  • edith

    how often does she wash her hair?

  • Jack A. Napes

    I had the runs after eating too much chili.