this kind of environment, you look at the worst-case analysis. you plan for the worst thing the enemy can do to you and then you backward plan from that. tucker: right. why was our perimeter so close to the taliban? why wasn t the taliban told to stay at least 2,003,000 meters away from the airfield? we had no standoff, where was the ac 130 in the air? why didn t we have some mobile armored firepower on the ground in the form of bradleys or tanks? you can fly them in and fly them out when you re finished. i don t understand what was going on. it strikes me that no one seemed to think this was really a dangerous environment. the only thing i can conclude is that this half-assed operation was mckenzie s fault primarily but he s also got the secretary of defense, i assume that he briefed him, in which case the secretary of defense should be removed. and i know millie is very unpopular with lots of people, he s just advisor. apparently he didn t give very good advice.
chiefs chairman joe dumb third took a real beating from senate republicans in the senate armed services committee yesterday over what amounts to a stalemate in the relative status quo of operations in iraq and syria. carter announced a new strategy yesterday which says the military is calling the three rs, the city iraq and the city in syria and the type of raids they will be used ultimately to quell isis but he took a beating yesterday describing them from senator lindsay graham who called it a half-assed operation. today it was two other administration that the people making the case for the senate foreign relations committee, special envoy retired general john allen told the committee look for better results ahead. we denied isil freedom to operate in 30% of populated territory in iraq held just last august and the iconic city of tikrit has been liberated in 75%