Posted on 10/08/2014 7:02:07 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
Former President Jimmy Carter is criticizing President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy, saying he has shifting policies and waited too long to take action against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
In an interviewed published Tuesday in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the 39th president said the Obama administration, by not acting sooner, allowed ISIL to build up its strength.
“[W]e waited too long. We let the Islamic State build up its money, capability and strength and weapons while it was still in Syria,” he said, using an alternate name for the terrorist group. “Then when [ISIL] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.”
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Why is it progressives insist on using the more geographically expansive ISIL when the terrorists limit themselves by using ISIS?
Jimmy Carter is nuts.
maybe so but he feels OBOZO blew it and thats OK with me
Big surprise, he’s blown everything and everyone.
nothing like pointing out the obvious.
Ouch! That has got to hurt!
At least Jimmuh gets to die happy knowing he wasn’t the worst president ever.
Is Jimmy a Clintoon apologist too?
Our “pitchfork moment” should have been when 0bama wouldn’t take the advice of our leaders on the ground.
Yeah, well you blew it on Iran, Jimmah.
A far worse eff-up if you ask me.
Obama didn’t act while they were still in Syria because he saw them as allies of the Syrian rebels.
There’s no fool like an old fool and there is no old fool like Jimmy Carter. He needs to simply shut the f&#$ up.
This from the guy with hostages for 444 days?
This from the former president who did more to empower Islam than any other president besides OhVomit.
No, Jimmy. I need to call Jimmy out on this.
Jimmy Carter has stated that criticism of Obama is due to racism.
So, if Jimmy is critical of Obama, Jimmy is a racist.
Jimmy, you are a racist by your own criteria.
We need to call out these liberals using their own Alinskyite criteria.
Why do former Democrat presidents never quite go away????
And what will happen when Obama leaves the White House on Jan. 20, 2017? Will he also never quite disappear????? Will we have to listen to pronouncements from Obama for decades after he leaves office too????
Both Carter and Clinton never got off the stage. Perhaps this is what Democrats do.
November 4, 1979 - Hostages taken
April 24, 1980 - Failed rescue attempt
January 20, 1981 - Reagan takes oath of office, minutes later, hostages released.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0120.html
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