Bush handed them a bag of shit. And you're now complaining that we're holding a bag of shit. Well, blame your boy W. He loaded up the bag with shit in the first place.
Originally Posted by WombRaider
That's how the presidency operates. you ignorant slut.
Originally Posted by WombRaider
So you take the bag of shit, and instead of disposing of it properly or doing something positive like using it to fertilize your garden, you heap ten times more shit into the bag and hand it to the next sucker... That's how the dimocrappers operate. Get it?
From the WSJ on May 22:
‘I Don’t Think We’re Losing’
President Obama sees light at the end of the ISIS tunnel.
Well, that’s a relief. Islamic State this week took full control of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and a nearby military base. This follows its seizure on Sunday of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province. But at least President Obama is cool about it all, calling the fall of Ramadi merely a “tactical setback.” Every war has its ups and downs.
“I don’t think we’re losing,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic that took place on Tuesday but was released Thursday. “There’s no doubt that in the Sunni areas, we’re going to have to ramp up not just training, but also commitment, and we better get Sunni tribes more activated than they currently have been.”
“So it is a source of concern,” he added, but “we’re eight months into what we’ve always anticipated to be a multiyear campaign.”
Meanwhile, back on Planet Middle East, an opposition monitoring group estimates that after taking Palmyra Islamic State now controls about half of Syria, including most of its oil fields. The West is fretting about Palmyra because of its 2,000-year-old cultural treasures, and rightly so.
But of more immediate importance is that Palmyra is the first major city that Islamic State has captured from Syrian government troops, as opposed to other rebel groups. The would-be caliphate is consolidating its base in Syria even as it expands its reach in Iraq. In September Mr. Obama vowed to “degrade” and “destroy” ISIS, but the jihadists are doing most of the destroying.
It’s also worth mulling over Mr. Obama’s claim that he always “anticipated” this would be “a multiyear campaign.” This is the same President who criticized George W. Bush for conducting endless war in Iraq and Afghanistan and vowing to end it in both places. The Iraqi city of Mosul fell last June, Mr. Obama laid out his anti-ISIS strategy in September, and eight months later he promises years of more American commitment to Iraq.
At least Mr. Bush, for all his mistakes after the fall of Saddam Hussein, ordered a change of strategy that left Iraq stable by the time Mr. Obama took office. On present trend Mr. Obama’s Cool Hand Luke generalship will leave his successor an Iraq in turmoil and a mini-caliphate entrenched across hundreds of miles. If this isn’t “losing,” how does the President define victory?
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