Posted on 09/19/2014 11:49:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
ASK A LIBERAL: WHO LOST IRAQ? It's the new ‘Who Lost China?’
By Jeffrey Lord – 9.18.14
Who lost Iraq? In so many words, that is now the increasingly potent counter to years of liberal charges that America’s problems in the world can be traced to the Bush-Cheney foreign policy — specifically the invasion of 2003. The question has now taken root, with “Iraq” serving as shorthand for everything from Iraq itself to ISIS, the Syrian mess, Benghazi, and more.
Graphically illustrated by the beheadings of two American journalists, a British aid worker, ISIS armies causing chaos in the once-stabilized region. Not to mention the murder of a 19-year old New Jersey college student Brendan Tevlin by a self-professed jihadist, the arrest of a Yemeni store owner in New York who sought to fund ISIS, and the news that the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan has written to the head of ISIS asking to join.
The idea that Iraq had been stabilized — and hence the world of Islam calmed — was re-enforced in 2011 by no less than President Obama himself, as reported by Breitbart:
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I miss Mr Spock, he was so logical!
The democrat party is riddled with lying con men with a specialist at the top.
It’s one more item that could be used by a party that wanted to win seats in the coming election.
But that party is as quite as a church mouse
Which party?
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I wonder how she’s doing at “college? Wasn’t that presented as her next step in life?
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