Perhaps; but they're more than sufficient to resurrect his poll numbers and keep the U.S. Senate in Democrat hands, and that's all Barack Obama cares about:
The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) shot "easier" targets during Monday evening's air campaign, but intelligence will be the challenge as the terrorists become harder to find, General Michael Hayden told NewsmaxTV's "America's Forum."
"These are probably the easier targets to identify. These are the ones that you had good intelligence on," the retired Air Force general said Wednesday.
"You're going to run out of those, and the enemy is going to get smarter, and they're going to go underground and blend in with the civilian population. So, to keep this up, and we have to keep it up, we're going to need a lot more very exquisite intelligence, and it's going to be hard to come by. So, we've got a challenge here," he added.
In other words, we need "boots on the ground" . Lots of them. Like, yesterday. And we're not going to get them, because Barack Obama will not deploy them. But he'll certainly get rid of a lot of nasty, unwanted explosive ordnance. You could almost call it "creative scrapping" of the U.S. military munitions inventory.
Incidentally, you know that "U.S.-led coalition"? I.e. Saudi Arabia and a few of the Persian Gulf emirates? Well, they're not actually joining in the airstrike sorties. They're basically allowing us to use their airspace and bases. For now. Which, in turn, is why the term "U.S.-led" isn't completely ridiculous, because at the present time, we have nobody behind which to "lead".
Actually, I take that back; we are hiding behind the French. Until it comes time to cross the Syrian border, anyway. After that, O is on his own.
And there won't be any more European cover for his "blatant warmongering":
Hayden, who [i]s the former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA, said he was surprised that no NATO nations joined in Monday's airstrikes.....
Why, General? They know that O isn't serious about any of this. Besides, the Euros might not even have planes anymore.
Hayden said he understood the hesitation of Great Britain to participate after last year's refusal to join the U.S. in bombing Syria over [the Islamic State's] use of chemical weapons [to frame Bashar al-Assad and dupe the U.S. into taking him out for them].
I.e. they didn't want to get duped then, and they don't want to be left holding the bag now when O inevitably retreats.
He said France had only indicated they "may bomb in Iraq, but they won't bomb in Syria." The real focus needed to be on Turkey, Hayden said, where there was a "hundreds of kilometers-long border" with Iraq and Syria.
I dunno, General. It was difficult enough to get The One to pretend to bomb Iraq. It was a mid-level miracle to get him to pretend to bomb Syria. I don't think there's any way on God's green Earth you're going to convince him to pretend to bomb Turkey. Not that that dallama Erdoğan couldn't use a few well-placed hellfires up his got.
If you mean persuading the Turks to join O's "Coalition Of The Invisible," I wouldn't hold my breath, if I were you.
Exit questions: How long until ISIS retaliates here at home? Months? Weeks? Days? Hours? How will President Relentless Pursuit react? And is that not as rhetorical a question as it sounds?
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