On 6/28/2016 10:35 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
> On 6/28/2016 9:09 PM, American Dream wrote:
>> On 6/28/2016 7:56 PM, FPP wrote:
>>> She understands governing, politics, foreign affairs,
>>
>> So much so that she gave the world ISIS?
>
> She didn't. George W. Bush did.
>
Bullshit lie, Iraq was secured before Obama.
Syria was not in flames.
ISIS did NOT exist before Obama's feckless "red line in the sand".
These things are indisputable, even for an argue-bot like yourself.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/22/syria-iraq-incubators-isis-jihad
Three years ago, the Islamic State (Isis) did not exist; now it controls
vast swaths of Syria and Iraq.
Facing Assad's army and intelligence services, Lebanon's Hezbollah,
Iraq's Shia Islamist militias and their grand patron, Iran's
Revolutionary Guards, Syria's initially peaceful protesters quickly
became disenchanted, disillusioned and disenfranchised – and then
radicalised and violently militant.
The Shia Islamist axis used chemical weapons, artillery and barrel bombs
to preserve its crescent of influence. Syria's Sunni Arab
revolutionaries in turn sought international assistance, and when the
world refused, they embraced a pact with the devil, al-Qaida.
With its fiercely loyal army of transnational jihadis, al-Qaida once
again gained a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. Fuelled by the
hate and fear engendered by images of dismembered children or women
suffering from the effects of chemical weapons, disaffected youth from
around the world rushed to Syria, fuelling an ever more violent race to
the bottom.
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/473025/syria-red-line-that-wasnt/
In August of 2012, Barack Obama made a statement that Bashar al-Assad’s
use of chemical weapons would constitute a “red line.” When Assad’s army
killed more than 1,400 people with sarin gas one year later, the
president initially believed that he would carry out a strike. Atlantic
national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg takes us inside the day that
Obama broke with the Washington playbook with his last-minute decision
not to bomb Syria.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/obama-the-dark-knight-explains-isis.html
Obama Deeply Proud of That Time He Broke His Promise on Syria, and 12
Other Revelations From His Unbelievably Frank Interview With The Atlantic
One of the best moments of his presidency was that time he broke his
promise about Syria.
To the president's detractors, no moment crystallizes the Obungler's
toxic combination of naïveté and fecklessness than his refusal to
reinforce his "red line" on Syria. In August 2012, Obama warned the
Assad regime that if it used chemical weapons against its own people,
the United States would respond with force. One year later, the Assad
regime had reportedly done just that, and the U.S. was on the cusp of
launching retaliatory air strikes, when Obama backed off. Suddenly, he
decided that this plan should be sent to Congress — the place where
ambitious proposals go to die.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/why-the-isis-mission-is-obama-s-real-red-line-1.2803931
Why the ISIS mission is Obama's real 'red line'
Failure to 'degrade and destroy' ISIS would degrade America as a force
for good in the world
The United States, the world's most powerful country, is being
challenged by a motley collection of sadistic torturers and killers
called ISIS with pretences of being a religious state.
As odd as it may seem, the U.S. and its allies, Canada included, have
gone into this fight with one hand tied behind their backs.
They have ruled out sending in ground troops because the risk of heavy
casualties would be politically unacceptable to their home constituencies.
Instead, they've limited themselves to trying to do the job with only
air power and local forces — like the seemingly overmatched Iraqi army
and Kurdish Peshmerga militia — to do the ground fighting.
All this is a far cry from the beginning of the 21st century when the
U.S. was not just another superpower, but the world's hugely confident
supreme power.
http://journal.georgetown.edu/obama-fdr-and-the-failure-of-u-s-foreign-policy/
en Barack Obama won the election in 2008, the cover of TIME magazine
showed the president-elect grinning like Franklin Roosevelt, with FDR’s
signature fedora, wire-rimmed glasses, and long-stemmed cigarette. The
cover article, “The New, New Deal,” suggested how Mr. Obama could
emulate the accomplishments of Mr. Roosevelt. The two leaders have been
compared numerous times—occasionally by critics, usually by
sycophants—but nearly always in reference to their domestic agendas.
The more significant comparison — and arguably the most troubling —
involves the foreign policies of these two standard-bearers of
Democratic liberalism. Although FDR’s war leadership was ultimately
successful in defeating the Axis Powers, his pre-war priorities
effectively blinded him to the existential threat of international
fascism. His utopian impulses in foreign affairs nearly allowed a
totalitarian nightmare to engulf the West.
In this, Mr. Obama is a student of FDR. As a consequence, he has left
the United States in one of the most dangerous and destabilizing
security environments in nearly half a century.
Promising a new spirit of U.S. diplomacy, Mr. Obama deployed Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton to “reset” relations with Russian President
Vladimir Putin. By abandoning plans for a missile defense system based
in Poland and the Czech Republic, the administration hoped to soften the
imperialist ambitions of a demonstrably repressive autocrat.
Instead, Mr. Putin violated Ukrainian sovereignty by instigating a civil
war and annexing the Crimean peninsula. Ignoring U.S. sanctions, Moscow
continues to provide sophisticated arms to separatist rebels in eastern
Ukraine. There is no credible threat or any intent from the United
States to block further Russian aggression.
In a March 27, 2014 speech to the European Union, Mr. Obama mentioned
the importance of NATO to European security, but then seemingly made
NATO irrelevant to the crisis. “Of course Ukraine is not a member of
NATO, in part because of its close and complex history with Russia,” he
said. “Nor will Russia be dislodged from Crimea or deterred from further
escalation by military force.” By announcing in advance there would be
no American military support, the president left Ukraine vulnerable to
Russian designs.