Terbukti keterlibatkan AS dalam perang di
Suriah dan Irak dengan dalih memerangi teroris terungkap hanyalah
sandiwara belaka, sejatinya mereka membantu para teroris untuk
menjatuhkan rezim Bashar Asad di Suriah dan agenda memecah negra Irak
menjadi tiga negara, Negra Suni, Syiah dan Kurdi… Demikianlah pengakuan
Pilot AS dalam interview dengan Fox TV milik Media Mogul Zionis Rupert Murdoch:
One Navy F-18 pilot who has flown missions against ISIS voiced his frustration to Fox News, saying: “There were times I had groups of ISIS fighters in my sights, but couldn’t get clearance to engage.”
He added, “They probably killed innocent people and spread evil because of my inability to kill them. It was frustrating.”
Seorang pilot tempur F-18 dari angkatan laut Amerika yang telah terbang dalam melakukan misi melawan ISIS menyuarakan rasa frustrasinya kepada Fox News, mengatakan: “Ada saat-saat kelompok militan ISIS ada dalam pandangan saya, tapi saya tidak bisa mendapatkan izin untuk terlibat,”
Dia menambahkan, “Mereka (militan ISIS) mungkin membunuh orang yang tidak bersalah dan menebar kejahatan karena ketidakmampuan saya untuk membunuh mereka. Itu membuat saya frustrasi,” lanjut dia, yang dilansir Fox News pada Kamis (28/5/2015).
Lengkapnya baca laporan Fox News Dibawah ini:
U.S. military pilots carrying out the air
war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are voicing growing
discontent over what they say are heavy-handed rules of engagement
hindering them from striking targets.
They blame a bureaucracy that does not
allow for quick decision-making. One Navy F-18 pilot who has flown
missions against ISIS voiced his frustration to Fox News, saying: “There were times I had groups of ISIS fighters in my sights, but couldn’t get clearance to engage.”
He added, “They probably killed innocent people and spread evil because of my inability to kill them. It was frustrating.”
Sources close to the air war against ISIS
told Fox News that strike missions take, on average, just under an
hour, from a pilot requesting permission to strike an ISIS target to a
weapon leaving the wing.
A spokesman for the U.S. Air Force’s
Central Command pushed back: “We refute the idea that close air support
strikes take ‘an hour on average’. Depending on the how complex the
target environment is, a strike could take place in less than 10 minutes
or it could take much longer.
“As our leaders have said, this is a
long-term fight, and we will not alienate civilians, the Iraqi
government or our coalition partners by striking targets
indiscriminately.”
A former U.S. Air Force general who led
air campaigns over Iraq and Afghanistan also said today’s pilots are
being “micromanaged,” and the process for ordering strikes is slow —
squandering valuable minutes and making it possible for the enemy to
escape.
“You’re talking about hours in some
cases, which by that time the particular tactical target left the area
and or the aircraft has run out of fuel. These are excessive procedures
that are handing our adversary an advantage,” said retired Lt. Gen.
David Deptula, a former director of the Combined Air Operations Center
in Afghanistan in 2001.
Deptula also contrasted the current air
campaign against ISIS with past air campaigns. Deptula said the Kosovo
campaign averaged 135 strikes per day. In 2003, the famous “shock and
awe” campaign over Iraq saw 800 strikes per day.
The U.S.-led airstrikes over Iraq during
the first Gulf War averaged 953 strike sorties per day, according to the
Air Force — which said “only about 5 percent of the … weapons released
in those strikes were precision guided,” meaning targets likely
“required multiple strikes to meet the desired level of destruction.”
According to the U.S.-led coalition to
defeat ISIS, U.S. military aircraft carry out 80 percent of the strikes
against ISIS and average 14 per day.
Deptula blames the White House for the bottleneck.
“The ultimate guidance rests in 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue,” he said. “We have been applying air power like a
rain shower or a drizzle — for it to be effective, it needs to be
applied like a thunderstorm.”
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., recently
complained that 75 percent of pilots are returning without dropping any
ordnance, due to delays in decision-making up the chain of command.
A senior defense official at the Pentagon
pushed back on the comparisons between the air war against ISIS and
past air campaigns.
“The Gulf War and Kosovo are not
reasonable comparisons. In those instances, we were fighting
conventional forces. Today, we are supporting a fight against terrorists
who blend into the civilian population,” he said. “Our threshold for
civilian casualties and collateral damage is low. We don’t want to own
this fight. We have reliable partners on the ground.”
McCain, speaking on CBS’ “Face the
Nation” on Sunday, also called for “forward air controllers,” as well as
special forces and “more of those kind of raids that were so successful
into Syria.”
Another former U.S. Air Force general
agreed. “We need to get somebody to find the targets and [U.S.] airpower
will blow them up … period,” said retired Gen. Charles F. Wald, former
deputy commander of United States European Command
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash
Carter Wednesday, Rep. Duncan Hunter asked the secretary to consider
arming the Sunnis tribes in Anbar directly in order to defeat ISIS. Like
McCain, Hunter also wants to “immediately embed special operators and
ground-air controllers to support ground operations against IS[IS].”
But a defense official pushed back on
Hunter’s plan to bypass Baghdad and arm the Sunni tribes directly,
telling Fox News, “[the plan] doesn’t take into account the presence
of Iran inside Iraq right now… there could be unintended consequences
and restore a sectarian war.”
(foxnews/myartikel/ABNS)
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