Obama’s ISIL Coalition under Fire by Top Officials: Strategy Doomed to Fail

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US President Barack Obama recently announced his strategy against the so-called "ISIL".

However, hours after the announcement, administration officials opened their fire against the new coalition by telling Obama: "You're doomed to failure".

And here is what Rober Gates told the ABC:
                    

The former US War Secretary Leon Panetta blamed Obama. He cautioned that it would take "a long time" to defeat the ISIL.

"My view was: you have to begin somewhere," added Panetta, also a former CIA director.
"And I think the American people need to know it's going to take a long time," he added, describing Iraq's failure to stem the militant tide "a tragic story."

Panetta admitted that he had not been confident that pulling US forces out of Iraq in 2011 was the right thing to do.
"No, I wasn't. I really thought that it was important for us to maintain a presence in Iraq," he said.

Similarly, the man who was the top Marine general from 2006 to 2010 says President Barack Obama's strategy to defeat the "ISIL" Syria is doomed to fail.
"I don't think the president's plan has a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding," retired Marine General James Conway, who served as the 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps during the end of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama administration, said at the Maverick PAC Conference in Washington, DC Friday, according to a source in attendance.

Obama's strategy has also come under fire in recent days for preemptively taking off the table the possibility of using American combat troops to achieve the mission.
"You just don't take anything off the table up front, which it appears the administration has tried to do," retired Gen. James Mattis, who served as head of Central Command from 2010 until his retirement in 2013, told the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team