The present catastrophe is Iraq is most all Obama’s fault. Our reps in Iraq should have gotten Maliki in a closed door meeting and gone McArthur on him about leaving a reasonable US force there. Every decision Obama made concerning Iraq has been the wrong decision.
Obama is a loathsome mediocrity who should never have gotten above the Illinois legislature, which was also over his head.
“Our reps in Iraq should have gotten Maliki in a closed door meeting and gone McArthur on him about leaving a reasonable US force there. “
As I understand it, that was Obama’s job in negotiating a status of forces agreement even after Maliki said no.
Of course Malkik would argue against leaving US forces behind to garner nationalist support by being anti American. He is a politician.
We could expect that he would do that. But, behind closed doors he needed to be made to understand with some kind of bargaining chip or threat.
He needed to go back and say, “The American’s made me do it.”