Posted on 06/17/2014 6:02:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
OBAMA HUDDLES WITH NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM: President Barack Obama met last night with his national security team to discuss the situation in Iraq. Participants included Vice President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Eric Holder and National Security Adviser Susan Rice, plus at least three members of the military: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, Vice Chairman Adm. Sandy Winnefeld and head of U.S. Central Command Gen. Lloyd Austin. “The president will continue to consult with his national security team in the days to come,” the White House said in a statement.
The meeting came after the president notified Congress he’s sending up to 275 U.S. military personnel to Iraq to provide security as the State Department evacuates some personnel from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. It also came as U.S. officials are making “a strenuous effort,” as The Washington Post reports, “to persuade Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to move within a matter of days toward a more inclusive power-sharing arrangement.” http://wapo.st/1lMuiC7
ARE WE HEADED FOR A LONG STALEMATE? Middle East expert Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution emails Morning D with his thoughts on the current state of play in Iraq: “The most likely near-term outcome seems to be a bloody stalemate along the Sunni-Shi’a internal borders. On the one hand, that suggests that ISIS and the other Sunni militants are unlikely to get to Iraq’s vast oil fields in the South any time soon.
“On the other hand, it suggests that the Iraqi civil war is likely to burn on and on in a vicious deadlock, while ISIS and other terrorists set up shop in secure areas in northern Iraq.”
Pollack has a larger piece on the situation here: http://bit.ly/U2j4Pz [continued]
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
What is “Politico’s Morning Defense”?
Defense of the Obama administration’s incompetence?
Let’s harness the known predictive accuracy of our top advisors! Yes!
Barry’s brain trust.
I fear the oil wells will be the next target..
American leadership. This is how far we have fallen.
What an idiotic bunch.
The meeting participants are scarier then the meeting, pray for the country in earnest! I have wondered if God has turned his face away from us due to our inequities and we will burn!
I wouldn't trust these clowns to walk my dog, much less provide security for our country. We're in deep dog doo.
No. We appear to be headed for a disastrous, humiliating defeat.
Of more concern should be who is present but not named. How many al Qaeda operatives are there providing insight and guidance?
Senior DHS Adviser: ‘Inevitable that ‘Caliphate’ Returns’ Only choice is ‘whether we support’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3168509/posts
Bingo.
I’m surprised that he could take time off from watching basketball and playing golf to do this or is just a press release for propaganda purposes.
So far, the antidote for American Exceptionalism has been the Democrats and their Foreign Student Leader Obama.
In the words of then Senator Kerry, “Nothing bad happened in Viet Nam after we left.”
Sounds a bit as formidable is Huey Dewey and Louie duck along with Moe Shep and Curley. Think back to when the military apparatus was: Adm Leahy over George Marshall, Hap Arnold and Ernest King. The sec of War was Stimson and Hull was sec of state. Donovan was the head of the OSS, forerunner of the CIA. End result, we won.
Send in the clowns.....
‘Black flag of jihad will fly over London’: Alarm over UK-born Iraq fighters’ threat
Edited time: June 17, 2014 09:57
Terror alerts, 9/11-style bombings and murders of British citizens will soon come to London’s streets, according to chilling threats from UK citizens fighting alongside Islam’s most violent terrorist group operating in Syria and Iraq.
The threat comes from British nationals fighting for the Sunni militant group calling themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) in Syria. According to the Sunday Times, they promise that after they’re done there, Britain is next. The message comes from three such fighters, all youngsters in their teens and twenties.
According to the Times, these aren’t regular disenchanted youths at all: one is a 20-year-old hacker from Birmingham, who once stole Tony Blair’s details and posted them online, later serving time for an unrelated violence charge.
The “black flag of jihad” will fly over Downing Street, Junaid Hussain warned on June 4, spelling out the horrors to come. He’s been fighting in Syria for over a year now.
Another, 19-year-old Muhammad Hassan, from Portsmouth, was a student at a prestigious school. He warned on Twitter that if the US doesn’t cease threats over drone strikes on ISIS positions, 9/11-style attacks on America would follow.
The third, also from Portsmouth, promised a “killing spree” of British citizens if he were ever to return to Britain.
“Imagine if someone were to detonate a bomb at voting stations or ambushed the vans that carry the casted [sic] votes. It would mess the whole system up,” came another tweet from Junaid Hussain, before he re-tweeted a warning from a like-minded countryman for British people to “watch out,” because “we’ll come back to the UK and wreak havoc.”
http://rt.com/news/166128-isis-jihadists-threaten-britain/
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