[Responsibility2nd]

Ya know, while I would live to jump on the “Obama sux” bandwagon on this article too, I have to wonder just how damn long Odierno would expect us to have stayed in Iraq with thousands of boots on the ground? 5 more years? 10?

Fact is - unless we increased and escalated the costs in lives and money - ISIS was a guarantee.

[skeeter]

I consider the entire Iraq thing a mistake now. But 6 or 7 years things were relatively stable. Without a doubt there was an opportunity there that this president squandered.

Given his policies towards Israel, towards Libya, Egypt, Syria, ISIS etc etc I have concluded his bungling of Iraq with subsequent rise of ISIS was intentional.