Posted on 05/21/2015 5:29:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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US President Barack Obama has described the loss of key Iraqi territory to Islamic State as a tactical setback, while insisting the war against the jihadist group is not being lost.
"I don't think we're losing," Obama said in an interview with news magazine The Atlantic published Thursday, days after the Iraqi city of Ramadi was overrun.
Shia militias converged on Ramadi Monday in a bid recapture it from jihadists who dealt the Iraqi government a stinging blow by overrunning the city in a deadly three-day blitz.
The loss of the capital of Iraq's largest province was Baghdad's worst military setback since it started clawing back territory from the jihadists late last year.
Days after a rare message from ISIS supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urging mass mobilization, the group also came close to also seizing one of Syria's most famed heritage sites, ancient Palmyra, but the army pinned it back.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had been reluctant to deploy Shia militias to Anbar province for fear of alienating its overwhelmingly Sunni Arab population.
He favored developing locally recruited forces, a policy that had strong US support.
But militia commanders said on Monday that Ramadi's fall had shown that the government could not do without the so-called Popular Mobilization units (Hashed al-Shaabi) - am alliance of Iranian-backed Shia Islamist militias regularly criticized for carrying out war crimes comparable to...ISIS.
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Just and endless series of strategic retreats.
That light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.
These ISIS guys are fighting a 3 front war, against Iraq and Syria and the Kurds, Except for the Kurds, they are winning. If the Shiite militias join what’s left of the Iraqi Army I could see the Sunni tribes thinking blood is thicker than Water and joining ISIS which now has an abundance of weapons in addition to black market dollars or euros or whatever. This is no al Queda terror group. They have established a territory over which they exercise control. They have currency, police, courts. They are barbaric and ruthless but they have an arm with identifiable formations. They want to be a nation. Maybe our response should be to treat them like one and declare a state of war between us and them, and act accordingly. Of course Barky won’t do that but somebody must, before Iran does and rules a swath of area from Afghanistan to the Med.
I would say what war on ISIS.
Whatever comes out of the Bammy’s blue lips just go with the opposite and you will be correct 99% of the time. When it comes to truth and accuracy Bammy is a 1%’er at best.
What ISIS Really Wants:
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
He isn’t losing the war he’s fighting.
[”I don’t think we’re losing,”]
Neither would an Ostrich with his head buried in the sand.
Um.
Now, I have a headache.
Seriously, that’s good work.
..... Nah .... of course not ... That would be terrible ..... They're just winning against us.
I’d love the opportunity to go over there and help the Kurds, but I don’t know the process of joining. When i looked into it I found web pages set up for IS recruitment. I kid you not. I smell our pro-IS government all over that. Joining the bad guys seems way too easy these days.
This idiot will still be saying that when Isis is on the White House lawn. He lives in la-la land.
Is he complaining?
So many similarities to Hitler, this sounds like his bunker days near the end...
Dude, ISIS is in the oval office.
Well, I think Obama isn’t lying lying.
I think one has to actually fight a war in order to lose a war.
No, he’s a Muslim in the Oval Office but he claims that Isis is NOT Islamic. he doesn’t even know Islam.
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