David Petraeus: "Ground Forces Needed to Defeat ISIS Killers"

By Elizabeth Nelson

It shouldn't come as any surprise that Obama's military advisors, like General Petraes,  who he's grown to ignore because Obama only listens to his political advisors where military engagements are concerned, are telling him that we cannot defeat ISIS without our ground forces.

“What we’re doing right now is disrupting. We are gradually chipping away at the strength” of Islamic State, he said, adding that gains could not be sustained without ground forces. Continue Reading Newsmax

It also shouldn't come as any huge shock to anyone that Obama believes he's the smartest man in the room, because our MSM has put him on that pedestal, and if you don't agree with him he's not going to listen to what you have to say.

The U.S.-led fight against Islamic State will take years and will need ground forces to succeed, retired General David Petraeus said.

“We’re talking about years, many years in the case of Syria,” Petraeus said today in a presentation to business executives at a Tokyo hotel. “What we’re doing right now is disrupting. We are gradually chipping away at the strength” of Islamic State, he said, adding that gains could not be sustained without ground forces.

“I do believe the Iraqis can be the ground forces that can deal with this over time, but again it will be months and years, not days or weeks,” he added.

Petraeus’s comments came a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi urged U.S. President Barack Obama to make the airstrikes “quick and decisive” to deny Islamic State the time to lure more fighters to the region.

A U.S.-led coalition extended a campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State from Iraq to Syria this week after the group seized control of parts of both countries and killed two U.S. journalists and a British aid worker. Obama told the UN General Assembly in a speech this week that extremists targeted by the strikes understand only “the language of force.”

Petraeus, 61, who also served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2011 to 2012 and is now chairman of KKR Global Institute, an investment management firm, compared the situation to attempts to gain control over al-Qaeda forces in western Pakistan. He said it was necessary to avoid any let-up in airstrikes.

This is why I wouldn't ever want the job of President, there will always be decisions made that won't be popular with the American people, but will have to be made in the best interest of the people.  Wow, sounds a lot like the job of a parent, and Patraeus is giving him fatherly advice in how to kick a bullies arse, but Obama again thinks he's the smartest kid in the classroom. 

Sadly, with this mentality, he'll continue to ignore wise council and his weak attempts to "contain" ISIS, not decimate them, will only serve to irritate these bullies further and allow them to grow larger and rule the school and put us further in danger.  

I don't believe he has any desire to "decimate and destroy" his Muslim terrorist family, but he'd rather sit, stall and wait out the Presidential time clock, praying they stay out of America just long enough to be the next Presidents problem and call.