We’ll see what the voters think in November. I think the author will be hugely dissappointed.
Is Dubya in Iraq?
I know Al Queda is in Iraq...but the news is kind of squishy on that. So Dubya deserted his post in Mosul, under fire and hit the road, because he fail to negotiate a military agreement during the Obama Administration? He did take up Sec of State so he could do that right? He was that before Clinton and Kerry, after all.
He has been the most active past president...and I thought it was jimmy carter fixing all those other countries.
DK
The pundits are saying that Syria is the main cause of this disruption. I have had the impression that a lot of the right, other than McCain, don’t favor robust intervention in Syria any more than the left. Meanwhile any news on the Turkish consulate takeover? That should certainly annoy the Turks, and with what possible actions/consequences?
I seem to remember that when we withdrew we said we’d be right next door if you need us...
Obama could send in the marines any time if he wanted to. I think that what is happening is what is supposed to happen; they war-gamed it and it is proceeding according to plan.
the sippering little muz squeeks
A W hater then and still a W hater now
go back to whatever little 3rd rathole you hail from Farid
Couldn't have anything to do with your special little confidant, Barry Hussein, could it?
Why do we allow these people in, much less give them television shows?
What a scum bag.
Of course Obama was taking a lot of credit 2 years ago saying Al Queda is almost finished and Iraq is one of the administration’s best outcomes
But Obama said Al queda was on the run and Iraq was stable!!!!
Too late to blame Bush as Obama sent Biden to manage the exit!!
Obama took credit for the victory he claimed in 2011. As of that point, Obama owns Iraq; whatever happened after that is his.
I’m no defender of Obama, but I would like to better understand the Bush strategy. Eventually we would have to leave there, be it under Obama, McCain, Romney, or Clinton.
It’s clear now that Iraqis have no stomach to take on ISIS...so should we simply have stayed and been pin-pricked for decades?
It is premature to say Iraq is lost. What is in process is change.
The government established after the removal of Saddam Hussein and the Baathist’s may lose some parts but retain others. That is, the artificial accretion of territory by the British into the nation of Iraq is separating into the natural divisions of religious, tribal and maybe ethnic lines. These are the northern Kurdish region, the central Suni region and the southern Shia region
The Iraq being lost is actually just a map drawn by British and French diplomats when carving up the Ottaman Empire in say 1918 after WW I. The reassemblage of territories, this change, may also include parts of what is now Syria where similar map drawing resulted in French Syria.
In my mind, what America does or doesn’t do is largely irrelevant now. The decisions will be made by others in the region. Especially interested are Turkey, the Gulf States and Egypt with Jordan thrown in as an aside.