The stinger missile is a shoulder-fired surface-to-air weapon, and as General Bob Scales points out in the clip above, it is SUPER EASY to operate. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cowan added, “I can’t conceive the thought process that went behind giving the Iraqis — whether we knew this was going to happen to them or not — giving them stinger missiles which should, at all times, be tightly controlled.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you can’t write this stuff. The careless actions of this administration on the world stage have made winning a near impossibility. In this case, they cut and run from Iraq so quickly that they didn’t even bother to bring the weapons home. A bit ironic, considering the fact that Weapons of Mass Destruction were the very reason we got involved over there in the first place.
It appears that all possible paths to success in the Middle East are littered with the remnants of Obama’s failures, and just when you might think to yourself, “well, at least there’s always airstrikes to avoid another ground war,” something like this happens to shatter that as a potential option. Thanks a lot, guys.
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