Tuesday, June 17, 2014
On a trip to the Middle East this spring, we heard a constant refrain in capitals from the Persian Gulf to Israel, "Can you please explain what your president is doing?" "Why is he walking away?" "Why is he so blithely sacrificing the hard fought gains you secured in Iraq?" "Why is he abandoning your friends?" "Why is he doing deals with your enemies?"
As the terrorists of the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis
in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President
Obama's
past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. "If a J.V. team puts on
Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant" (January 2014).
"[C]ore al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated" (August 2013).
"So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding" (September
2011).
Rarely has a U.S. president been
so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to
count, Mr. Obama has told us he is "ending" the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan—as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come
crashing into reality. Watching the black-clad ISIS jihadists take
territory once secured by American blood is final proof, if any were
needed, that America's enemies are not "decimated." They are emboldened
and on the march.
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