mnottertail
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At the core of Obama’s thinking is that American military involvement cannot be the primary instrument to achieve the new equilibrium that the region so desperately needs. And yet thoughts of a pacific equilibrium are far from anyone’s mind in the real, existing Middle East. In the 2012 campaign, Obama spoke not only of killing Osama bin Laden; he also said that Al Qaeda had been “decimated.” I pointed out that the flag of Al Qaeda is now flying in Falluja, in Iraq, and among various rebel factions in Syria; Al Qaeda has asserted a presence in parts of Africa, too.
“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama said, resorting to an uncharacteristically flip analogy. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.
So, now we see the lies, he said nothing of ISIS. And of course you premise your asswipe on lies, and have a grand pronouncement, with no facts, no realities.
What might he have done to prevent ISIS one of the multitude of factional terrorist organizations in the area? People who were actually grounded in the area with knowledge and fact said at the outset this sort of thing is inevitable when the foolish nutsackers who helped W commit this treason in the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses. Look at that, there were no terrorist cells in Iraq, and Saddam kept them out. Now we have the split into three areas, which we said at the outset would happen after W et al fucked it up and continued to do so. The Kurds have increased their holdings by 40% in that country, and again, ISIS or ISIL or whatever you want to call it, is of no real concern to us, they are bent on establishing an Iran in Iraq. What is that to us? We said at the outset this would happen. We will end up in a Nato beef with Turkey over the strengthening we have to do with the Kurds who want their own land.......as they had before WWI, and that will be our biggest problem for us. But we have to support the Kurds, because we sure can't support the ineffective Iraquis that we have slaughtered and deconstructed.
And Bush left a stable Iraq? When he left those people gave him his shoes they were so on their feet, hah?
< Message edited by mnottertail -- 8/23/2014 7:49:41 AM >
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