Posted on 05/22/2015 7:38:09 AM PDT by mandaladon
Washington (CNN)Assessing his war on ISIS after the group overtook the key Iraqi city of Ramadi, President Barack Obama said in an interview this week his strategy against the terrorists isn't failing.
"I don't think we're losing," Obama said in the Tuesday interview with The Atlantic magazine, which posted online Thursday.
Calling the fall of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, a "tactical setback," Obama pinned the blame on poorly trained and organized Iraqi Defense Forces.
"The training of Iraqi security forces, the fortifications, the command-and-control systems are not happening fast enough in Anbar, in the Sunni parts of the country," he told interviewer Jeffrey Goldberg.
As ISIS takes ground in Sunni-dominated Anbar, the administration has worked to bolster Iraqi security forces, including backing multi-sectarian forces termed "Popular Mobilization Units" that include Shia fighters. Administration officials insist those forces must remain under the control of the central Iraqi government, a proposition that in the past has proven difficult.
Obama said in his interview it was a "source of concern" that Sunni fighters haven't become more engaged in fighting ISIS. As ISIS takes ground in Sunni-dominated Anbar, the administration has worked to bolster Iraqi security forces, including backing multi-sectarian forces termed "Popular Mobilization Units" that include Shia fighters. Administration officials insist those forces must remain under the control of the central Iraqi government, a proposition that in the past has proven difficult.
Obama said in his interview it was a "source of concern" that Sunni fighters haven't become more engaged in fighting ISIS.
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See 1984 by George Orwell.
That headline does not match the actual quote: "I don't think we're losing."
Huge difference.
Unbelievable
THIS JUST IN
“In Iraq, meanwhile, tribal leader Sheikh Rafie al-Fahdawi said the small Iraqi town of Husseiba fell to ISIS overnight when police and tribal fighters withdrew after running out of ammunition.
‘We have not received any assistance from the government. Our men fought to the last bullet and several of them were killed,’ he said.
Husseiba is about four miles east of Ramadi, where ISIS militants routed Iraqi forces last weekend in their most significant advance in nearly a year.”
In Iraq, meanwhile, tribal leader Sheikh Rafie al-Fahdawi said the small Iraqi town of Husseiba fell to ISIS overnight when police and tribal fighters withdrew after running out of ammunition.
‘We have not received any assistance from the government. Our men fought to the last bullet and several of them were killed,’ he said.
Husseiba is about four miles east of Ramadi, where ISIS militants routed Iraqi forces last weekend in their most significant advance in nearly a year.
We’re not losing against ISIS like the Baltimore cops weren’t losing against the THUGS. Just letting them act up a little. /s
He says “we” because he is a member of the group that is winning.
We’re not losing?
How about the 9-year-old Christian girls be stripped and sold in slave markets, are they losing?
Heavy water manufacturing: check
Uranium centrifuges: Check
Missile technology: Check
Murderous death cult run by suicidal psychopaths: Check
Arrogant worthless spineless American president: Check
The ONLY thin Obama is negotiating is for Iran to wait a couple years until he is out of office so he can say “It’s not MY fault.”
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