Time for a Meeting

The top brass from 22 nations allied to fight Islamic State militants convened face to face for the first time Tuesday just outside Washington, D.C.

U.S. military officials said the defense chiefs who met at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, did not discuss any significant change in military strategy.

  Military Times

I haven’t noticed that we’ve had any strategy other than foment perpetual war.

The Big Guy showed up.

“This is an operation that involves the world against ISIL,” Obama said, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic militants.

The world. I didn’t realize there are only 22 nations in the world. This is the world: United States, Iraq, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom. And we aren’t too sure about Turkey.

The meeting ran several hours behind closed doors marked “Secret” inside a conference hall at Joint Base Andrews. During a lunch break, dozens of top military officials in varied uniforms milled about in the conference hall’s lobby.

Like any well-organized business meeting.  I wonder what they were served for lunch.

“This is going to be a long-term campaign, there are no quick fixes. But our coalition is united behind this long-term effort.”

Long-term, as in from here until we blow up the actual world.

BREAKING;

On Monday Iraqi military sources confirmed the fall of the military base of Hit, which includes a training camp and the base of the seventh division of the Iraqi army, after a major attack of the organization ISIS, using suicide car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades.

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In a related context, lieutenant colonel, Rahim Aljughaifi said that “ISIS have seized the contents of the base and the training camp, including tanks, heavy weapons, munitions and stores, as well as spare parts and different military supplies,” adding that “the army had requested help of the international coalition during the attack on the base, but the latter did not respond’, asserting the control of ISIS on the three towns surrounding the base.”   Iraqi News

Is that the strategy? That's too hard.  Good luck. You're on your own.

Maybe our strategy was to distract attention from IS by sounding an alarm about a made-up greater threat: Khorasan.  That didn't work.

Hmmmm....maybe we don't really want to stop IS?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.