Obama’s Middle East Policy Is In a State of Collapse

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By Kate on May 19, 2015 1:44 PM | No Comments

Powerline: You know it's bad when even the Associated Press notices

The "sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq" that Barack Obama and Joe Biden hailed as one of Obama's "great achievements" in 2014 has regressed into chaos as a result of Obama's premature withdrawal of American troops. But it isn't just Iraq. Syria is the closest thing to Hell on Earth. Iran is working away on nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Yemen has fallen to Iran's proxies. Saudi Arabia is looking for nuclear weapons to counter Iran's. ISIS occupies an area the size of Great Britain. Libya, its dictator having been gratuitously overthrown by feckless Western governments that had no plan for what would follow, is a failed state and terrorist playground.

It seems as though things couldn't possibly get worse, but they almost certainly will.
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Obama’s Middle East Policy Is In a State of Collapse | Power Line

Rout in Ramadi calls US Iraq strategy into question - Breitbart

 

[Ludlow]

These people have been at each others throats for quite a spell. What makes anyone think that this will change because someone from the other side of the world thinks they can solve the conflicts.

 

[B00Mer]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZkExYK_YWk

George W. Bush in 2007 warning about the consequences of pulling out of Iraq too early

Barak Husain Obama is a muslim in disguise, so what did you expect to happen?

 

[BaalsTears]

I don't mind seeing Obama humiliated by foreigners. It harms his credibility at home.

 

[Galol]

The premise of this piece is false. The rise of ISIS is a culmination of America's longstanding failures in the Middle East going back decades.

If the US didn't invade Iraq and remove Saddam, they'd be no ISIS in Iraq today. Saddam was secular dictator who brutally crushed any challenge to his authority specially coming from religious groups and it worked.

They'd be no ISIS in Syria if the US didn't support the so-called "Free Syria Army."

Jihadi terrorists wouldn't be swimming in the US embassy in Libya if the US hadn't backed the overthrow of Qaddafi, a staunch bulwark against Jihadism.