NeverEndingMe
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think we all agree, well the real American's with intelligence that obama is a failure.
The week that was brought fresh evidence that President Obama has no actual strategy to defeat ISIS — just talking points, platitudes and gestures.
ISIS takes Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria — each a city of great strategic, economic and symbolic value. The US response: Send Iraq 1,000 anti-tank missiles, downplay the victories and have the president intone, “I don’t think we’re losing.”
Reality check: In the nine months since Obama announced his anti-ISIS coalition, ISIS territory has grown 20 percent. Most of the coalition’s 50 “members” have done nothing in the fight.
Even US forces have done far less than they might, flying far fewer bombing sorties than they could — and almost never bombing ISIS’s capital or command facilities in Raqqa, Syria.
As for training allied boots on the ground: Washington didn’t even start doing so in Syria until the other week, “coincidentally” just days after a Los Angeles Times story exposed the failure.
It’s hard as yet to measure the impact of training in Iraq. To date, the key anti-ISIS forces there seem to be Iran-aligned Shiite militia. Obama himself admits to making far too little progress in bringing Sunni tribal forces into the fight.
Reality check: In the nine months since Obama announced his anti-ISIS coalition, ISIS territory has grown 20 percent.
On top of expanding its Syria-Iraq territory, ISIS has welcomed new affiliates across the Middle East.
But the White House shows no sign of caring. Back in February, ISIS put out a video of its execution of 20 Egyptians in Libya; Egypt responded by bombing ISIS’s Libyan forces — and Washington complained.