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Retired Head Of Marine Corps: Obama’s ISIS Strategy Doesn’t Have ‘A Snowball’s Chance In Hell Of Succeeding’

by Jamie Weinstein

 

The man who was the top Marine general from 2006 until his retirement in 2010 says President Barack Obama’s strategy to defeat the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is doomed to fail.

 

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Leon Panetta destroys what little was left of Obama’s excuse for not leaving troops in Iraq

 

Following in the footsteps of Robert Gates, his Obama administration predecessor at the Pentagon, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has criticized the president’s handling of a key battleground in the war against Islamic terrorism. Gates’ criticism centered around Afghanistan. Panetta’s focuses on Iraq.

 

In Panetta’s forthcoming memoir “Worthy Fights,” which Time Magazine has excerpted, Panetta argues that Iraqi leaders privately wanted U.S. forces to stay behind after the formal 2011 withdrawal; that the U.S. had “leverage” to strike a deal; and that the Defense and State departments attempted to do so. However, says Panetta, “the President’s team at the White House pushed back” and thus no deal was reached.

 

Why? Because “the White House [was] so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.”

 

Panetta’s account is consistent with that of Ryan Crocker, our highly respected ambassador to Iraq during the period in question. According to Crocker, the U.S. “could have gotten [the] agreement” to keep troops in Iraq if officials had been more persistent.

 

Virtually every deal the Bush administration reached with the Iraqis was achieved at the “13th hour” — that’s how things work in the Middle East. But Obama threw in the towel well before “midnight” because, as Panetta says, he was so eager to rid himself of Iraq.

 

More at the link: http://www.powerline...ops-in-iraq.php

 

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OK goofball, we get you theory that the solution to failed intervention is more intervention. We got it the first time, and now umpteenth times later it's still just as idiotic

 

 

Well Joe, even the kindest interpretation of your response shows that you do not seem to understand anything.

 

Quoting the Obama administration's Defense Secretary and the ambassador to Iraq that the U.S. could have left troops in Iraq (contrary to what the President said) is not idiotic

 

nor was it a call for more intervention.

 

 

 

 

 

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Well Joe, even the kindest interpretation of your response shows that you do not seem to understand anything.

 

Quoting the Obama administration's Defense Secretary and the ambassador to Iraq that the U.S. could have left troops in Iraq (contrary to what the President said) is not idiotic

 

nor was it a call for more intervention.

 

 

 

 

 

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remaining after stated goals were met IS further intervention

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Since Joe cannot seem to grasp the simple concept of President Obama's mistake in withdrawing all the troops, when (as his own men have stated) it was avoidable. Thus allowing the strengthening of ISIS

 

and since I do not really want to chase the squirrel he has thrown out there.

 

We'll stick with pictures..................

 

 

 

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Since Joe cannot seem to grasp the simple concept of President Obama's mistake in withdrawing all the troops, when (as his own men have stated) it was avoidable. Thus allowing the strengthening of ISIS

 

and since I do not really want to chase the squirrel he has thrown out there.

 

We'll stick with pictures..................

 

 

 

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because you have no real arguments thats why you cut and paste long winded articles from neocon &@^@!!'s and post images.

 

The reason ISIS was formed is because we and our "allies" destablized Syria ... what do you think the second "S" stands for? wake up clown, it was MORE intervention that caused the problem. And your solution? You guess it: more intervention

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This seemed to be the best place to put this... If you have HBO and want a chuckle, it might be worth checking out Maher if only for a pretty heated argument with Ben Affleck about the true nature of Islam. Happens half way through if you just want to fast forward to it and spare yourself Elizabeth Warren.

 

 

For entertainment value only of course.

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This seemed to be the best place to put this... If you have HBO and want a chuckle, it might be worth checking out Maher if only for a pretty heated argument with Ben Affleck about the true nature of Islam. Happens half way through if you just want to fast forward to it and spare yourself Elizabeth Warren.

 

 

For entertainment value only of course.

 

Nah I see enough ignorance on PPP that watching Bill Maher might cause an overload.

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