Greg Gutfeld fills in for O’Reilly on the factor and hosts Lt Col Ralph Peters in a conversation over the release of details of the failed Foley rescue attempt. He first asks the Col what his opinion is of a briefing held by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on the issue. Peters said it reminded him of “the Stalinist bureaucrats defending the Kremlin policy back in the good old days.” He said, “It was shameful.” Adding that the administration disgracefully released the details of this raid unnecessarily except “to the degree that it provided some fiction of political cover for the administration,” that they could claim they were trying but failed. He says the only real takeaway was “that we still have nothing that remotely resembles a strategy for dealing with the Islamic State terrorists.” Peters points out that the regime has finally woken up to the huge threat that ISIS poses, but they’ve “admitted they’re not doing much of anything and they have no plans to do much of anything except build a coalition.” Gutfeld asks Col Peters what would he do if he were president. Peters says the first thing he’d do is to fire whoever decided to release the details of the mission. He says, “We should be using the full extent of our air power to hammer them in strategic depth. Peters was amazed that while General Dempsey and Hagel admitted in the news conference that the border between Iraq and Syria no longer exists, they still maintained that we can’t do anything in Syria. We should be using strategic air power to hit their headquarters, and other targets and hit them hard. The little pinpricks will not make a difference on a strategic level. He described the release of details the failed raid as murderous. It not only endangers our future fighters on future missions, it was in effect Obama’s signature on the death warrants of current and future captives. Much of the intel we used in the failed attempts was secured through others who had been released. It is now much less likely that current or future captives will be freed and much more likely that they will be brutally murdered.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:05:28 +0000
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