Posted on 09/19/2014 2:14:10 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
Former President Bill Clinton voiced support for the U.S. strategy to defeat ISIS and said only the Iraqi people can win a land war in Iraq.
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Former President Bill Clinton voiced support for the U.S. strategy to defeat ISIS and said only the Iraqi people can win a land war in Iraq.
Speaking Thursday night on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” Clinton said the United States has proven it can’t win an Iraq war with boots on the ground, but that moderate Sunni tribal leaders working with an inclusive Iraqi government can.
“We can’t win a land war in Iraq, but they can and we can help them,” Clinton said.
Clinton said he thinks President Barack Obama’s strategy to combat ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, “has a chance to succeed.”
“The Iraqi government finally includes Sunnis who were representing those tribal leaders who are moderate and without whom ISIS cannot be defeated,” he said.
“We can give them intelligence, and we can do bombing, and we have to do that to send a signal to them. That there’s a price for decapitating those people,” he said, referring to the recent beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and of British aid work David Haines.
“You can’t let people get away with that, that’s a terrible signal to the world,” he said.
Obama: ISIS threat against U.S., allies ‘doesn’t frighten us’
Clinton also believes that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa can be stopped, but that “it will take a Herculean effort.”
“A lot of these people can survive if they get proper care quickly, and we can stop the epidemic and let it burn itself out,” Clinton said.
Obama, officials from the World Health Organization, the United Nations and Doctors without Borders will gather with the former president at a meeting of his Clinton Global Initiative, which starts Sunday. The Ebola outbreak “probably represents the confluence of all the various things that you can do at Clinton Global Initiative,” said Stewart.
“This is an emergency because nobody knows how to cure this,” said Clinton.
Ebola patients buying survivors’ blood from black market
The World Health Organization said Thursday that the death toll in the Ebola epidemic has risen to 2,622 dead. The number of reported infections is 5,335, though the actual number is “almost certainly” higher, Clinton noted.
Clinton said that this Ebola epidemic is different than previous outbreaks in remote rural areas mainly because of the density of people in the urban areas in which it is striking.
“There are a lot of people there and there are just too many bodies brushing up against one another every day,” he said.
Notice he is setting up Barry to explain his failure on handling Ebola matters by saying it is Herculean, so if he does gain some success he will be a hero.
Slick Willy, always fast and loose with the facts.
He must mean can’t win with a democrat in charge.
Did he think Saddam won in 2003?
FUBC. The FIRST World Trade Towers bombing, not to mention a whole lot of other stuff, happened on YOUR WATCH. Yep. You were the Best First Black President. Ever. Doofus. *Rolleyes*
And, Please. Don’t anyone think I don’t LOVE watching the blood feud between these two pos ‘families.’ :)
Not with stupid rules of engagement like they had to work with.
In order to defeat a ruthless enemy, you must be more ruthless than they are....................
So true.
That old women abuser Bill Clinton just threw the US Military under the bus.
No Bill you asshat. The US Military can win a war in Iraq. Its our dumb ass politicians that can not do it...
DIMocRATs are, at best, losers.
Yep DemoRats, start wars, then lose 'em.
He may be setting it up for Hillary to run, thinking that the “war in Iraq” will still be unfolding through the campaign and 2016; letting her off the hook for pulling the troops out if it seems to be a quagmire around January of 2017.
What???
Hey Clinton, we won against Iraq TWICE.
What America has a problem with is winning the PEACE because the Fabian socialists foster such confusion and double-mindedness.
Gee, Billy Bob, I guess it depends on what the strategy and RoE are.
This may shock Billy Bob, but “war” doesn’t always mean “nation-building” and “counter-insurgency.”
We could win it in a week—if we didn’t allow Progressives of both parties to set the ROE and we removed “embedded reporters” (aka spies for the enemy).
Oh yeah, we’d also need to get rid of our political appointee generals and admirals and replace them with real men.
Rockrr: US has proven dhimmicrats can’t win an Iraq land war
What the hell would he know about it? He slid through 8 years of the Reagan/Bush economy and foreign policy. Jerk!
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