The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that U.S. military pilots fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because the Obama administration would not give clearance to launch a strike.Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stated that strikes against ISIS targets are often blocked due to the administration policy of avoiding civilian deaths and collateral damage, a policy that is being blamed for allowing the militants to gain momentum and continue waging terrorist attacks throughout the region and beyond. Royce said,
"You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can't drop, we can't get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us. I don't understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit."
It's a good time to be an enemy of America.