Michael Hayden, former director of both the National Security
Agency and the CIA, has been offering his wisdom on warfare in
Iraq, and it’s … interesting. Hayden
told U.S. News & World Report that President
Obama’s plan to try and bomb ISIS out of Syria
instead of sending in ground troops has “all of the attraction
of casual sex.”
A ringing endorsement, right? Wrong! Hayden is no fan of the
casual sex, and no fan Obama’s plan, which he said “seems to offer
gratification but with very little commitment.”
“I guess he’s right,”
quipped Jessica Roy at New York. “Unlike ground
troops, drones don’t spend the night.”
Of course it’s all fun and games until you stop and think about
the fact that this man is describing killing people as erotic
and gratifying and the failure to send American
troops to die immediately as an irresponsibility.
Hayden continued: “We need to be wary of a strategy that puts
emphasis on air power and air power alone.” If you bomb it, then
you gotta put a ring on it, obviously.
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