With the president and his military leaders differing on the subject of ground troops, Charles Krauthammer says the likeliest explanation is that the Obama administration is “making it up as they go along.”
“That does not inspire confidence,” he said.
At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Joint Chiefs chairman General Martin Dempsey suggested that American ground troops may have to engage in combat against the Islamic State — this after President Obama’s repeated assurances that there will be no American “boots on the ground.” On Special Report, Krauthammer proposed three possibilities for the apparent contradictions:
Either the president wants not to do it, which appears to be the impression. . . . and the military wants to go ahead and do it, because it knows it’s going to need to at some point. Or, Obama is very cleverly the one giving the good news, and he’s having the generals go out and talk about the inevitable bad news, the ground troops. Or the third possibility is, these guys have no idea what they’re saying or doing, and they can’t agree on what’s going on.
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