June 16, 201412 yr Two observations about this: 1. Every time I see the ISIS used, I think of Sterling Archer. 2. Just drop the freakin' G-Bomb already.
June 16, 201412 yr Could have committed 275 pilots and this thing wouldn't have made it five miles down the road.
June 17, 201412 yr Could have committed 275 pilots and this thing wouldn't have made it five miles down the road. Especially 275 pilots with G-Bomb payload. Time to empty the junkyards.
June 17, 201412 yr Embassy staff not evacuating. They are 'temporarily relocating'... She looks uncomfortable lying. She will get better or she will be shown the door. I think that this is the same spokes person who was stumped when asked to list some of Hillary's accomplishments as Sec. of State.
June 17, 201412 yr Embassy staff not evacuating. They are 'temporarily relocating'... "Chili, if we move Vietnamese, they are evacuees. If they come to us to be evacuated, they are refugees."
June 18, 201412 yr On May 1, 2003, Richard Perle advised, in a USA Today op-ed, "Relax, Celebrate Victory." The same day, President Bush, dressed in a flight suit, landed on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major military operations in Iraq—with the now-infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner arrayed behind him. Ten Years Ago: Bush Declared 'Mission Accomplished'--and the Media Swooned | The Nation Obama ended Bush's war... This one is all Obamas.. Let's recall that Obama inherited a pacified Iraq, where al Qaeda had been defeated — both militarily and ideologically. Militarily, thanks to Bush’s surge, al Qaeda was driven from the strongholds it had established in Anbar and other Iraqi provinces. It controlled no major territory, and it’s top leader – Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi – had been killed. Ideologically, al Qaeda had suffered a massive rejection by the Sunni masses. Iraq was supposed to be a place where al Qaeda rallied Sunnis to drive America out. Instead, the Sunnis joined with Americans to drive al Qaeda out. That was a major ideological defeat. So al Qaeda in Iraq (now ISIS) had been beaten on the battlefield and rejected by the Sunnis it claimed to represent. In fact, the situation Obama inherited was so good that the Obama administration was actually trying to take credit for it. Joe Biden declared that Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of [the Obama] administration.” Obama took that inheritance and squandered it. And – just as Bush predicted – we’re now talking about going back (at least in the air) to help the Iraqis to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous. Bush warned this would happen in Iraq | AEIdeas
June 18, 201412 yr ^ Fair enough... so in this narrative, what happened? What led al-Qaeda in Iraq back to this emboldened state? Syria?
June 18, 201412 yr Author ^ Fair enough... so in this narrative, what happened? What led al-Qaeda in Iraq back to this emboldened state? Syria? Seeing and knowing Obama has a weak and is mean weak leadership in foreign policy when dealing with Muslim Countries.
June 18, 201412 yr Seeing and knowing Obama has a weak and is mean weak leadership in foreign policy when dealing with Muslim Countries. That's awfully abstract. Nothing else? Nothing else at all contributed to the rise of ISIS in the last few years? "Obama is weak" is really all we have here? Explain it to me like I'm a complete moron who's never read a news article a day in his life.
June 18, 201412 yr ^ Fair enough... so in this narrative, what happened? What led al-Qaeda in Iraq back to this emboldened state? Syria?One could paint a dozen different scenarios but it basically just goes back to the fact that different Muslim sects hate each other.. But most of whats happening now could have been prevented if Obama had left a strong military presence in Iraq to begin with.
June 18, 201412 yr One could paint a dozen different scenarios but it basically just goes back to the fact that different Muslim sects hate each other.. But most of whats happening now could have been prevented if Obama had left a strong military presence in Iraq to begin with. Forever? Syria crumbled right before our eyes. It was almost inevitable that ISIS activity would spill across the border. Was the U.S. military supposed to keep a massive presence in Iraq indefinitely? For how long? Another five years? Another ten years?
June 18, 201412 yr Remember the rebels in Syria that people like McCain and Graham trashed Obama for not supplying arms? Well, those same rebels are now invading Iraq.
June 18, 201412 yr Forever? Syria crumbled right before our eyes. It was almost inevitable that ISIS activity would spill across the border. Was the U.S. military supposed to keep a massive presence in Iraq indefinitely? For how long? Another five years? Another ten years?PLUS, I thought soon after we invaded Iraq it was declared. "Mission Accomplished"? When a mission is accomplished don't you usually move on? I agree, how much longer so people want us to be there? How much money are we spending over there again? Yet people want to complain about the economy?
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