The Collapsing Obama Doctrine -- Dick Cheney And Liz Cheney, Wall Street Journal
Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.
As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama's past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. "If a J.V. team puts on Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant" (January 2014). "[C]ore al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated" (August 2013). "So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding" (September 2011).
Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is "ending" the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come crashing into reality. Watching the black-clad ISIS jihadists take territory once secured by American blood is final proof, if any were needed, that America's enemies are not "decimated." They are emboldened and on the march.
The fall of the Iraqi cities of Fallujah, Tikrit, Mosul and Tel Afar, and the establishment of terrorist safe havens across a large swath of the Arab world, present a strategic threat to the security of the United States. Mr. Obama's actions—before and after ISIS's recent advances in Iraq—have the effect of increasing that threat.
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My Comment: I can spend all night criticizing the policies and goals that former Vice President Cheney pursued when he was in office .... especially on foreign policy. And while his assessment on the collapse of the "Obama Doctrine" is (in my opinion) correct .... he is missing a very important point .... the American people are tired of war and becoming involved in foreign wars and conflicts. President Obama is aware of this sentiment .... and while it may not be good for U.S. national security from a strategic point of view to have terror groups like ISIS dominate a certain part of the Middle East (especially over the long term) .... it is even worse for the U.S. to go to war when much of the country is clearly against it.
WNU Editor:
ReplyDeleteYour comment is right on point! Well said.
Indeed Editor well spoken.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to disagree here. There is a very vocal minority in the US that is anti war any war. The far and away majority of Americans are not anti war, just tired of stupid, wrong headed and short sighted, domestic politics based military and foreign policy.
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