General David Petraeus gives then-Senator Obama an aerial tour of Baghdad in 2008. (Reuters/Lorie Jewell/Multi-National Forces Iraq Public Affairs)
Obama's Disastrous Iraq Policy: An Autopsy -- Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
The president ignored the country and its increasingly dictatorial prime minister for years.
Yes, the Iraq War was a disaster of historic proportions. Yes, seeing its architects return to prime time to smugly slam President Obama while taking no responsibility for their own, far greater, failures is infuriating.
But sooner or later, honest liberals will have to admit that Obama’s Iraq policy has been a disaster. Since the president took office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has grown ever more tyrannical and ever more sectarian, driving his country’s Sunnis toward revolt. Since Obama took office, Iraq watchers—including those within his own administration—have warned that unless the United States pushed hard for inclusive government, the country would slide back into civil war. Yet the White House has been so eager to put Iraq in America’s rearview mirror that, publicly at least, it has given Maliki an almost-free pass. Until now, when it may be too late.
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My Comment: Peter Beinart is as liberal as you can get in Washington .... and he .... like much of the liberal media .... have been giving a "pass" to many of President Obama's foreign policy initiates/policies/failures/etc. for the past 5 years.
No more now.
Peter Beinart's assessment on the White House's Iraq strategy is brutal in this post .... and his analysis is accurate. I do not know if this is the start of a US media shift in how they cover the White House when it comes to foreign policy .... but it is a welcome first sign.
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