Posted on 08/21/2014 10:00:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The announcement by American officials that a raid into Syria aimed at liberating Americans in ISIS custody, including one who was later beheaded on camera by Islamic State terrorists, failed to achieve its objectives is dispiriting. While the American air campaign over Iraq appears to be successfully rolling back ISIS in Iraq, the U.S. lacks a comprehensive strategy to deal with the group in Iraq’s Sunni regions or in their Syrian stronghold. Moreover, some Democrats are now openly fretting that the latest escalation of tensions between ISIS and America will goad the U.S. into a new ground war in Iraq.
On Fox News Channel’s Special Report on Wednesday, The Washington Post opinion columnist Charles Lane spelled out the fears of some about what a true commitment to defeating the Islamic State would mean.
“What are we prepared to do once the airstrikes start yielding diminishing returns, as they inevitably will?” he asked. “It seems like the plan is to arm and support Kurds and the renovated Iraqi army on the ground, but, you know, that – it is a big ‘if’ that those guys have the muscle to really destroy this Islamic state.”
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Fret? Don't they want Obama to have a legacy like Kennedy and LBJ?
We’d best stick our necks out to be slaughtered lest we offend the poor dears by retaliating.
Guess what...we’re already there.
Did the US pullout of Vietnam contribute to the killing fields in Cambodia?
Return to Iraq
Return to Iraq
Mission unknown
No other army
We’ll be on our own
He made a promise
Broke it this year
We say “why go back
We shoulda stayed and kicked their rear”
Return to Iraq
Obama lied
It seems that not enough
Americans have died
So we’re going into battle
Not our fight but what’s the diff?
Troops will shed their blood for Moslems
Give Barry’s ego quite a lift
Return to Iraq
Mission unknown
No other army
We’ll be on our own
Return to Iraq
Return to Iraq
Return to Iraq
Well, 1% of America and the National Credit Card, anyway.
Don’t worry, Dems! GWB will be blamed anyway. I asked my hard core Leftist sister what she thought about the beheading and she said ‘it’s very sad. Bush should have never gone into Iraq in the first place’. I am sure this will become the story........,..nearly six years after Obama moved into the WH, everything is still Bush’s fault.
ISIS in Iraq kills Tribal Elders/Leaders , so ISIS in the US would kill Politicians ?
Anybody with a brain knew that pulling out of Iraq was a bad idea......
...that it would leave a power vacuum.
.....that such vacuum would be filled by pure muzziedom.
......that it would lead to a monumental disaster and that WE ULTIMATELY WILL HAVE TO RETURN!!
So said the hated Bush in ‘06. Except he didn’t know the half of it. We are finding out—and we are just BEGINNING to find out.
The Dhimmicrats are in charge, boys and girls. Lock and load.
Well, instead of surrendering, if Obama’d done the job right the first time...
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