You can argue all you want about the wisdom, justification or necessity for the US war in Iraq. Hell, let’s assume we never should have been there in the first place, but we did get involved and at a high cost.
Now, years later we have an incompetent administration leading us where? Out? Into worse trouble? Down the path of a Middle East even more dangerous to our security?
When this all started it was Bush’s fault, but now it is five years later and Obama has had ample time to put his stamp on a strategy. And exactly what strategy is that? If I bury my head in my hands it will all go away and the problem is solved‼️
What a mess we are in now and you can blame it on this President, his lack of leadership, narrow minded ideology and the naive, inexperienced people who advise him, period‼️ Even now the Administration is contemplating its next move as Iran has already acted. Does anyone believe we don’t have the intelligence resource needed to have anticipated all this sooner? We certainly knew the Iraqi army was in disarray. We knew about religious animosity.
This is just another screwup with far ranging consequences (and the opportunity for more excuses)‼️
Iraq was largely at peace when Mr. Obama came to office in 2009. Reporters who had known Baghdad during the worst days of the insurgency in 2006 marveled at how peaceful the city had become thanks to the U.S. military surge and counterinsurgency. In 2012 Anthony Blinken, then Mr. Biden’s top security adviser, boasted that, “What’s beyond debate” is that “Iraq today is less violent, more democratic, and more prosperous. And the United States is more deeply engaged there than at any time in recent history.”
Mr. Obama employed the same breezy confidence in a speech last year at the National Defense University, saying that “the core of al Qaeda” was on a “path to defeat,” and that the “future of terrorism” came from “less capable” terrorist groups that mainly threatened “diplomatic facilities and businesses abroad.” Mr. Obama concluded his remarks by calling on Congress to repeal its 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force against al Qaeda. WSJ 6-13-14
Then READ THIS from the New York Times.
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
The Sunnis and Shiites have been killing each other for a thousand years and now it’s President Obama’s fault? What an idiotic thing to publish. You would do very well on FAUX NUZ!
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You have a very narrow view of the situation and of the history over the last several years. The point is this could have been prevented and it is far more than Sunnis and Shiites. Here is what Obama said today. The current situation “poses a danger to Iraq and its people, and…could eventually pose a threat to America and its interests as well.” Even the New York Times agrees this all could and should have been handled better.
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