Air Force Pilots Report Lack of ISIS Targets; ‘Painfully Slow’ Getting Clearance to Strike

11 Oct, 2014 by Rachel Alexander

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The reports continue to come out about Obama’s bungling of the ISIS threat. Apparently he thinks a handful of random air strikes are going to stop the estimated 10,000 to 50,000 ISIS combat troops, who have indicated the U.S. is one of their primary targets. 

Weasel Zippers reports from The Daily Beast,

Within the U.S. Air Force, there’s mounting frustration that the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is moving far more slowly than expected. Instead of the fast-moving operation with hundreds of sorties flown in a single day— the kind favored by many in the air service—American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process.

The single biggest problem, current and former Air Force officers say, is the so-called “kill-chain” of properly identifying and making sure the right target is being attacked. At the moment, that process is very complicated and painfully slow.

“The kill-chain is very convoluted,” one combat-experienced Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot told The Daily Beast. “Nobody really has the control in the tactical environment.”

The  truth is, air strikes usually must be used in conjunction with ground troops. But this Nobel Peace Award recipient president wouldn’t want to damage his reputation for peace by actually sending troops into another war – he’d rather let them kill more Americans and come to our shores, which is easy to do through our porous border.