Posted on 05/22/2015 8:21:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen. Instead, it’s the defense minister of Iran who flies into Baghdad, an unsubtle demonstration of who’s in charge — while the U.S. air campaign proves futile and America’s alleged strategy for combating the Islamic State is in free fall.
It gets worse. The Gulf States’ top leaders, betrayed and bitter, ostentatiously boycott President Obama’s failed Camp David summit. “We were America’s best friend in the Arab world for 50 years,” laments Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief.
Note: “were,” not “are.”
We are scraping bottom. Following six years of Obama’s steady and determined withdrawal from the Middle East, America’s standing in the region has collapsed. And yet the question incessantly asked of the various presidential candidates is not about that.
It’s a retrospective hypothetical: Would you have invaded Iraq in 2003 if you had known then what we know now?
First, the question is not just a hypothetical, but an inherently impossible hypothetical. It contradicts itself. Had we known there were no weapons of mass destruction, the very question would not have arisen. The premise of the war — the basis for going to the UN, to the Congress and, indeed, to the nation — was Iraq’s possession of WMD in violation of the central condition for the ceasefire that ended the first Gulf War. No WMD, no hypothetical to answer in the first place.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Full title: “It’s Obama who lost Iraq: To ask the right hypothetical questions, it’s imperative to understand that fact”
The Wikipedia article on Mosul doesn’t even mention Obama, and makes it almost sound like ISIL liberated the city from the horrible mess created by Bush.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Iraq was lost when we didn’t clamp down on Sharia law.
There were WMDs, Krauty
“We were America’s best friend in the Arab world for 50 years,” laments Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief.
Thx for that. My internet service cut out before I could post the full title.
Krauthammer mentions one thing that the media have completely ignored....
Well, they have written ad nausium about Lord Obama personally parachuting into Pookistan and killing Bin Ladin.
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