Posted on 05/28/2015 10:22:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The White House on Thursday, in no uncertain terms, put the onus on the Iraqis to fight and defeat the Islamic State -- even as a new report warned foreign fighters are flocking to the battlefield at a historic and dangerous pace.
"The United States is not going to be responsible for securing the security situation inside of Iraq," Press Secretary Josh Earnest told Fox News.
Earnest defended the administration's strategy, amid growing concerns about gains made by ISIS fighters in both Iraq and Syria. Earnest said the effort would take a "sustained commitment," but stressed that the U.S. will continue to focus on training and equipping Iraqi forces, while backing them up on the battlefield with air power.
"Our strategy is to support the Iraqi security forces in doing what we will not do for them," he said. "The United States is prepared to train them, to equip them, and to back them on the battlefield with coalition military air power as they take the fight to ISIL in their own country."
In saying the U.S. will not be "responsible" for the security situation, the White House was putting clear limits on the lengths to which the U.S. will go to reverse ISIS' gains, even as the Pentagon considers adjustments to the strategy.
Former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell countered that "it is everybody's fight." Speaking with Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio's "Kilmeade and Friends," Morell said the terror group poses a "significant threat to the stability of the entire Middle East."
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The president is ISIS’s representative in the US. Why would obie work against his constituents?
That part of the world is barely worth the Plutonium we should drop on them.
As awful as it sounds, the only REAL solution is to destroy the shrine in Mecca.
Surgically.
Mohammed predicted that if Mecca were destroyed, then Islam is not God’s religion, as he said.
But with a warning that if we see *ANY* retaliation against *ANY* American interest anywhere, the next strike will not be so surgical and will include other shrine cities throughout the ME.
Advantage Isis...game, set & match...goodbye
never happen with obama, hillary, a democrat or a rino anywhere near the white hut ... all (the prior) hate you and your children ... vote them in and find the truth of my words.
“They wanted us out”
We need to ponder who is “they”.
None of know what’s in the minds of our Middle East strategists. My view is that we make efforts over there only if it is in our security interests. Maybe we can withhold help from Iraq and it will work out ok for us.
Didn’t we leave because the Iraq leader insisted that our soldiers be tried for alleged offenses in their courts? Could it be that if that leader changed his mind, we’d start helping again.
While I recognize my ignorance, I also don’t trust our foreign policy leadership which starts with Obama.
“White House: US won’t be ‘responsible’ for ‘security situation’ in Iraq”
Of course not.
It’ll be bushs fault.
You’re the very best!
When the Mombasa moonbeam failed to negotiate a remaining security force, the first thing that went through my mind was the Saigon embassy. Only this time, I don't think there will be any helicopters.
Just wow!
Fixed it.
-PJ
Your idea of destroying Mecca is the key to the entire war.
Fight their false religion with its own precepts.
Iraq is gone and there is going to be a bloodbath. And the idiot-in-chief in the White House doesn’t give a rat’s rear.
OK, JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR ON THIS— when the ghastly images of a humanitarian crisis caused by the vacuum of accountable authority hit the news feeds, everyone whose been screaming for us to get out of Iraq are going to remain perfectly content with their choices, and the WH WILL NOT EVER COMMENT on how messed up the situation is or how terrible the conditions have become ... RIGHT?
"Except of course, when
there's a Republican
President. Oh, and,
Death to America!"
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