But these comments by Obama have already gone down the memory hole and it doesn’t appear that anyone in the MSM will be bringing them back anytime soon.
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Gee … wouldn’t it be nice to have had troops in Iraq, if that’s the case?
“From the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained”. And that’s a marked shift from recent years in which media attention has focused on the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has eclipsed Al-Qaeda both on the ground and in the fears of Western security officials. A lot of them come from the Middle East and North Africa… “They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria… you don’t see the systematic march by ISIL across across the terrain”.
Huckabee said even the President of France last night shut down the borders, stressing that even a “left wing politically correct France decides that it can’t continue to just have an open-border society”.
ISIL claimed responsibility for bombing the Russian airliner, saying it was revenge for Moscow’s military intervention in support of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. However, the president admitted that attempts to “decapitate” ISIS’ leadership have been unsuccessful and will require a “multi-year effort”. Not much besides targeting.
Huckabee said if he were President of the United States that he would make sure ISIS didn’t have access to social media so that they can’t communicate or recruit people. That announcement was made despite Obama promising at least eight times since 2013 to not put boots on the ground in Syria. That’s laughable, but not for the reasons Obama thinks.
In an interview with George Stephanopolous on “Good Morning America”, Obama asserted that ISIS was not gaining strength and that “we have contained them”. The figures did not include how many fighters there were in other ISIS proclaimed territories, including Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Libya, and other parts of north and central Africa.
“We either take this threat seriously or one day we’re going to regret that we didn’t”, Huckabee warned.
“A majority of Americans continue to describe the Iraq War as a mistake”, they added, referring to a June poll finding.
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Kurdish peshmerga fighters celebrate retaking the town of Sinjar, northern Iraq. “I am here to announce the liberation of Sinjar”, Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan said.
