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Heya HB. :2wave: Well you see Right away its back to Bush and him leaving a SOFA for BO to handle.....which BO couldn't handle that fact due to BO's own mentality about Iraq and what he thought was his Great Achievement. He was wrong. Then he ran from the problem.....thinking if he ignored it. It would go away.
Those powerful Sunni Tribes and Ousted Baathists would have never sided with the Terrorists. If BO peep would have just did his job in Iraq.....rather than trying to bask in his own glory. Thinking he had Iraq and Afghanistan, Right. What he really did was play on the American people being war weary. Now he looks like a fool all across that Global Stage.
Throughout 2014, powerful Sunni tribes and ousted Saddam-era Baathists have coordinated with ISIS to capture much of central, western, and northern Iraq. On the other side are demoralized Iraqi troops and increasingly sectarian Iranian-trained militias, some of which had been fighting in Syria. The U.S. didn't truly tune into the crisis until after a few hundred ISIS militants overran Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul on June 10. "There was a concerted effort by the administration to not acknowledge the obvious until it became so apparent — with the fall of Mosul — that Iraq was collapsing," The New York Times' Arango said on Reddit.
"Obama was hugely (and understandably) reluctant to authorize the use of force in Iraq — he considered ending the war there one of his chief accomplishments as president," geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group, told Business Insider recently. "But there wasn't much choice," he said.....snip~as ISIS forces proved far more capable than U.S. intelligence had assessed,
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-already-huge-flaw-obamas-145400925.html
We lost all meaningful intelligence in the area with our ill-advised withdrawal. It's no surprise our intelligence is lagging behind events, and this "late to the party" approach has been repeated by Obama time after time. Now we're going to arm the moderates? He has to be kidding. Where in the hell was he 3 years ago, when that very thing might have made a difference? Now we're more than likely going to end up supplying arms to our enemies, one way or the other. I'm glad he's doing something, but damn what a bonehead he is.