In an interview to be shown on 60 Minutes tonight, president Obama says that US intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria and overestimated the ability of the Iraqi army to fight the militant groups.
Don't you love watching Obama try to change history with another one of his lies?
Let's start at the beginning. The focus of what Obama says (according to the report by Reuters) is that the big move across Iraq in July was a surprise to America because the intelligence agencies underestimated ISIS and overestimated the Iraqi army. If the world had been created last July 4th, that might make some sense, but we all know that the world (and Iraq) have been around for a long time. Last January, ISIS forces captured two important cities in Iraq, namely Fallujah and Ramadi. Those cities and the surrounding areas are home to over a million people; these are not just small villages in the countryside. From that moment forward, the USA was on notice that ISIS was a major force within Iraq. Anyone who is at all familiar with the Iraq War knows that Fallujah and Ramadi were the sites of two of the most important battles of that war. American troops battled for a long time in difficult conditions to oust the terrorists from these two cities. ISIS took these two cities from the Iraqi army in less than two days.
So what do these facts mean? Simply put, starting at the latest in January of 2014, the world knew that ISIS was a major military force and that the Iraqi army was a joke. That conclusion required no special military intelligence; it was open and obvious to anyone paying attention. Indeed, I wrote about the need for president Obama to take the terrorists seriously last January right after Obama called them the "jayvee team", and I have no access to the product of America's intelligence agencies. The USA had six months of warning that many more bad things were coming from ISIS, but the president chose to do NOTHING at all about it.
Now, Obama is blaming his own failure to pay attention and respond to the big advances by ISIS on poor conclusions drawn by the intelligence community. Obama, once again, takes no responsibility for his own failure, but blames everything on someone else.
Look, the key now is not really how we got to the present situation; instead, we need to focus on how to move forward to get out of this mess. Obama's attempt to shift the blame to the intelligence agencies really just shows him to be a coward who does not have the courage to accept responsibility for his own mistakes.
Don't you love watching Obama try to change history with another one of his lies?
Let's start at the beginning. The focus of what Obama says (according to the report by Reuters) is that the big move across Iraq in July was a surprise to America because the intelligence agencies underestimated ISIS and overestimated the Iraqi army. If the world had been created last July 4th, that might make some sense, but we all know that the world (and Iraq) have been around for a long time. Last January, ISIS forces captured two important cities in Iraq, namely Fallujah and Ramadi. Those cities and the surrounding areas are home to over a million people; these are not just small villages in the countryside. From that moment forward, the USA was on notice that ISIS was a major force within Iraq. Anyone who is at all familiar with the Iraq War knows that Fallujah and Ramadi were the sites of two of the most important battles of that war. American troops battled for a long time in difficult conditions to oust the terrorists from these two cities. ISIS took these two cities from the Iraqi army in less than two days.
So what do these facts mean? Simply put, starting at the latest in January of 2014, the world knew that ISIS was a major military force and that the Iraqi army was a joke. That conclusion required no special military intelligence; it was open and obvious to anyone paying attention. Indeed, I wrote about the need for president Obama to take the terrorists seriously last January right after Obama called them the "jayvee team", and I have no access to the product of America's intelligence agencies. The USA had six months of warning that many more bad things were coming from ISIS, but the president chose to do NOTHING at all about it.
Now, Obama is blaming his own failure to pay attention and respond to the big advances by ISIS on poor conclusions drawn by the intelligence community. Obama, once again, takes no responsibility for his own failure, but blames everything on someone else.
Look, the key now is not really how we got to the present situation; instead, we need to focus on how to move forward to get out of this mess. Obama's attempt to shift the blame to the intelligence agencies really just shows him to be a coward who does not have the courage to accept responsibility for his own mistakes.
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