CIA Director John Brennan (Reuters / Gary Cameron)
Obama Administration Caught Off Guard By Islamist Threat In Iraq -- Washington Times
The White House is facing questions about whether it underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq after the surfacing of a 2011 speech by John O. Brennan, then President Obama’s counterterrorism chief and now CIA director, who dismissed the danger of an Islamic caliphate as “absurd.”
“Our strategy is … shaped by a deeper understanding of al Qaeda’s goals, strategy and tactics,” Mr. Brennan said on June 29, 2011. “I’m not talking about al Qaeda’s grandiose vision of global domination through a violent Islamic caliphate. That vision is absurd, and we are not going to organize our counterterrorism policies against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen. We are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they are.”
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My Comment: My perception is that many in the U.S. administration believed that with Osama Bin laden dead .... the movement would die over time. Wow .... that is becoming an oopps moment.
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"We are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they are.”
Don't worry about that, they went ahead and did it for you.
So true James.
Where they caught off guard no just to busy golfing.
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