Marc Thiessen:
From Europe to the Middle East, we have seen how disaster follows U.S. retreat and disengagement from the world. But the one area where President Obama seemed to be leaning forward was drone strikes. He personally approved terrorist “kill lists” and has taken out many hundreds of terrorists with drones in Pakistan, Yemen and East Africa.
So why, when Iraqi officials began pleading with him one year ago to strike Islamic State terrorists with drones, did Obama repeatedly refuse — standing by while terrorists overran the country?
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce made the stunning revelation in a congressional hearing last week that Iraq had been urgently requesting drone support against the Islamic State since August 2013 and that those requests were repeatedly turned down.
Obama officials have publicly claimed that Iraq requested air support only in May of this year, after Islamic State had already taken Fallujah and was marching on Mosul. That is untrue. And it is Royce’s version of events that is borne out by the public record. On Aug. 17, 2013, in a little-noticed story entitled “Iraq Open to U.S. Drone Strikes on Terrorists,” Bloomberg News reported that Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was in Washington “seeking U.S. advisers, air surveillance or even drone strikes” and that “the top Iraqi diplomat’s comments are the first time he has publicly raised the possibility of working with the U.S. on anti-terrorist drone strikes.”
That was a year ago.
Read his column.
Failed to stop? Obama’s policies have aided and encouraged the radical Caliph-longing Islami-fascists.
“Failed”? hardly. Obama’s treatment of Israel, his failure to support the Iranian civil uprising against that country’s islamofascist regime early in Obama’s term; his insane support of Morsi in Egypt – and the Muslim Brotherhood in the US; and his refusal to call the Ft. Hood shooting a terrorist attack reveal the underlying support Obama has for the satanic death cult of islam. This official statement reveals more cluelessness, or just plain evil, support of the death cult:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/27/statement-president-occasion-eid-al-fitr
Name a single contribution of muslims to the “very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy”.
One….just a single one.
Obama is either insanely stupid, or sociopathic in his complete disdain for truth.