Posted on 09/22/2014 9:19:23 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Former Obama administration Pentagon chief Leon Panetta said Sunday that the president overruled nearly his entire national security team and decided not to arm moderate Syrian rebel groups early on, a decision that helped the ISIS terror army gain power.
Panetta also said he favored leaving a residual force of U.S. troops behind in Iraq instead of withdrawing them, another opinion Obama ignored.
Panetta, who was Obama's CIA director for two years before leading the Pentagon for two more, told CBS News that entering the Syria conflict earlier, and ensuring that moderate groups gained power instead of the most extreme jihadi elements, could have prevented ISIS from growing and prospering.
'I think that would've helped,' Panetta said. 'And I think, in part, we pay the price for not doing that in what we see happening with ISIS.'
And a less complete troop pullout in Iraq 'would've given us greater leverage over Iraq's government,' he emphasized.
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So bill and hill will tell the democrats how stupid they were to vote for idiot Obama? Yea, that should be a winning strategy/S
Exactly right.
You hit the nail on the head.
Penetta all of a sudden within the past week or so is in the news a lot. Seems to me he is shoveling, or supervising the crew actually that is shoveling all the Obama poop off the trail for Hillary’s coronation.
Democrats are so damned predictable.
Funny how he’s just now speaking up though, huh? Well, he does have a book to sell....
+1
I don’t think the Iranians will help us unless we offer something substantial in return.
So bill and hill will tell the democrats how stupid they were to vote for idiot Obama? Yea, that should be a winning strategy/S
No. But they will distance themselves from any of his policies that are considered unfavorable at the time. They don’t give a flip about Obama (I believe they strongly dislike him). Their only concern is winning the election. If that means throwing Hussein Obama under the bus, they will have no second thoughts. In fact, I believe they would enjoy it.
They’ve already been critical of his Syrian policy. In other words, Hillary is saying, “It’s not my fault.”
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