America’s Leading Soldier says “We have NOT Contained ISIS”

By Onan Coca / 5 December 2015

Hey! Remember this?

I don’t think they’re gaining strength. What is true is that, from the start our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq. And in Syria it — they’ll come in, they’ll leave. But you don’t see this systematic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We’ve made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters and part of our goal has to be to recruit more effective Sunni partners in Iraq to really go on offense rather than simply engage in defense.

Sadly for Democrats, on Tuesday the nation’s most important soldier, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, absolutely destroyed President Obama’s ISIS narrative when he told Congress that “We have not contained ISIS…”!

“We have NOT contained ISIL… Strategically they have spread since 2010…”

Oh. My. Goodness. Here’s what we learned from General Dunford on Tuesday:

1. ISIS is not contained.
2. We are at war. No, we’re not.
3. For much of our fight against ISIS we did not have a strategy to defeat them.
4. The current military approved strategy is a recent development.
5. We are in deep doo-doo.

(That last one is my own personal summary of General Dunford’s answers.)

Twitter was, of course, abuzz in the aftermath of Dunford’s damning testimony.

Everything the Obama administration touches falls apart – so our failing efforts against ISIS shouldn’t surprise us. Whether it’s the economy, our healthcare or our foreign policy… Obama and the Democrats have a knack for screwing things up.