Posted on 12/28/2017 6:03:42 AM PST by COBOL2Java
U.S. military officials on Tuesday revealed that ISIS has lost 98 percent of the territory it once held, and since President Trump took office, half of its so-called “caliphate” has been captured.
You can thank the Obama administration for that, says Marie Harf, now a political commentator for Fox News. Here she is on “The Five” to explain.
Marie Harf: "The strategy that has led to a virtual defeat of ISIS in the caliphate…is largely a strategy that was laid out during the #Obama administration by military commanders." #TheFive https://t.co/2xXlJTjp08 pic.twitter.com/mr5DZMmCdLSo, is this one of those deals like crediting the uptick in the stock market with policies Barack Obama put in place?
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 27, 2017
Fox News reports:
The massive gains come after years of “onerous” rules, when critics say the Obama administration “micromanaged” the war and shunned a more intensive air strategy that could have ended the conflict much sooner.Isn’t Harf the one who inspired the #JobsForISIS hashtag back in 2015, suggesting that a lack of job opportunities is what led young men to join ISIS?“The rules of engagement under the Obama administration were onerous. I mean what are we doing having individual target determination being conducted in the White House, which in some cases adds weeks and weeks,” said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, the former head of U.S. Air Force intelligence. “The limitations that were put on actually resulted in greater civilian casualties.”
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She has airhead written all over her face.
Librarian Barbie
Gots to believe this air head is screwing some one big cause she sure didn’t get the job on her smarts at t=fox or at the state dept.
I haven’t watched Faux Spews in over a yearb unless they get rid of several liberal morons I never will watch again.
“I’ll answer you as soon as my nails are dry.”
She’s probably telling the truth, but only partially. The part she left out is that Obama refused to follow the advice from his generals.
I’ll defer to the military leaders on this one. Miss Harf can piss off.
I guess her jobs-for-ISIS program idea went down her memory hole.
Harf worked for Obama's State Department, where commonsense foreign policy issue ideas went to die.
and that other little girl with the Russian name that talks through a clenched jaw have to be the dumbest people on TV.
They are female versions of Juan Williams.
But, who am I to talk? - They are the ones making millions by annoying people blessed with common sense.
“The strategy that has led to a virtual defeat of ISIS in the caliphate…is largely a strategy that was laid out during the #Obama administration by military commanders.”
Typical Dem spin. Let’s decipher. Military commanders lay out a strategy, #Obama administration ignores the strategy, Trump admin adopts strategy leading to ISIS virtual defeat, Obama admin takes credit since strategy was hatched (and disregarded) during their watch.
In honor of the lovely Miss Marie, I spell “bharf” with the added “h”.
It was tough but I finally realized that the common sense thing for me to do was to not watch these people. We have Fox on a lot but when I get home from work and Juan W. comes on, I automatically hit the remote and go to re-runs on the Golf Channel, or re-runs of “Street Outlaws” or “Wicked Tuna”. Lt. Joe Kenda is a recent of ours.
Yep, exactly right, if obama aka valjar, had just let the military do their thing instead of micromanaging it, something neither one knew anything about so they were taking their marching orders from the enemy, then not only would ISIS never grown into what it was from a just a few hundred into 30k strong; the military could have squashed the first hint of ISIS coming into Iraq had they been left in country long enough for Iraq to establish a solid working government and military of their own.
Ironically, with all his harsh wrongdoing, Saddam Hussein kept the peace in Iraq but was far too brutal against the Kurds. That was his downfall. The world could not accept him doing that AND harboring Al Queda; especially not us after 9/11. Seems like people forget what actually happened even though they lived through it. Not you; just people in general. Then, like now, a relatively small part of the population is actually paying attention. Most are thinking about raising a family, what video game or makeup shade to get next, or about that hot girl/boy at school or work, etc. etc.
Damn if we aren't on the same page!
NOTE: Geraldo also trips the channel change in our home.
The Russian is Jessica Tarlov—————I have NEVER heard such an annoying,nasal voice in my life.
The only Fox show I watch is Tucker————I have given up all of the rest.
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Not sure why that is, and turning the muting off doesn’t help.
She’s attractive, but her comedy needs a lot of work.
Her routines are funny only because they are so boring, obvious and predictable.
Good parody, though. Gotta give her that.
If you read my post again you will see I said obama and his handler, Valerie Jarrett (valjar), took their orders from our enemy hence they were working for ISIS and probably Iran; not the USA at any time during his time in office.
Obama is either a muslim or a muslim sympathizer. Can’t live on the difference since they are about the same thing for someone who was in his position.
Knock off the bot crap. Jim requested you do such yesterday.
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