The Patriot Post® · Obama, Airstrikes and a Snowball in Hell

All the media is adoring Barack Obama for what political analyst Jonah Goldberg described as “a light show” in Syria. While the administration is now warning us the effort could take “years,” former Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway says Obama’s strategy of only airstrikes don’t have a “snowball’s chance in hell” of succeeding. Certainly, airstrikes aren’t going to fill the vacuum left when Obama prematurely pulled our troops out of Iraq so he could claim he kept his promise for the 2012 election. Now he wants a mulligan. Another interesting note: We’re bombing the Khorasan Group, an elite gang of al-Qaida fighters nearing “the execution phase of an attack” against the West. The strikes possibly killed Khorasan’s leader, Muhsin al-Fadhli, which would be a positive development. But we thought Obama had already “decimated” al-Qaida.