Jackson Diehl, Washington Post: The saddest piece of Barack Obama’s legacy
Shortly after the fall of Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, to the Islamic State in June 2014, a delegation of senior officials from Iraqi Kurdistan visited Washington with a troubling question: From where, they asked, would the force come to retake the city? The Iraqi army was too shattered, and the Kurds were too weak, and outside powers such as Turkey and the United States were unwilling to commit ground forces.
A lot has happened in the nearly two years since then. Among other things, the Obama administration has retrained nearly 20,000 Iraqi troops, dispatched some 5,000 U.S. trainers, Marines and special operations forces to the area, and launched more than 11,000 combat air sorties against Islamic State targets. Yet when another senior Kurdish delegation circulated through Washington last week, their question about Mosul was unchanged: Who is going to do this?
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WNU Editor: Iraq is not the only "saddest part" of President Obama's foreign policy legacy .... the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, Libya, the fracturing of alliances in the Middle East, the return of the Cold War, nuclear proliferation, China's aggressiveness in Asia .... just to name a few.
3 comments:
What a clown, he should go back to community organizing.
Why can't he mention his success stories of Somalia and Yemen?
White House Continues to Back Yemen as Model For Successful - Mar 25, 2015
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-continues-back-yemen-model-successful-counterterrorism/story?id=29901029
"Is President Obama Correct When He Touts Yemen And Somalia As Successful U.S. Counter-terrorism Campaigns?"
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/09/is-president-obama-correct-when-he.html
"Derp da derr!" - Obola
"What a clown, he should go back to community organizing." - TWN
??? Obama was part of the problem in increasing poverty and crime in Chicago.
He sucked up money, time and attention that could have been better spent by other projects to really reduce those scourges.
Obama as a community organizer was as effective as Al Sharpton. He was just not as loud or well known.
Obama is the problem.
Unlike Al Sharpton he has a pedigree. He is a "favored" minority and he has a college degree.
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