Remember when liberals sneered over how President Obama came into office having to “mop up” after Bush’s mess? How President Obama ended the war in Iraq? Credited President Obama with getting OBL while criticizing former President Bush for not getting the job done before his presidency expiration date came up? That it’s Bush’s fault for “the longest war”? How President Bush is to blamed for “the mess” that President Obama had to inherit?
Remember when Obama
embraced a new campaign by the DNC that invites Republicans to “grab a mop” and help clean up what Democrats say is a mess created by the Bush administration.
“I don’t mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that’s what I signed up to do,” Obama said. “But while I’m there mopping the floor I don’t want someone saying ‘You’re not mopping fast enough or you’re not holding the mop the right way.’ Grab a mop! Why don’t you help clean up?”
Well, with that as a backdrop, comes this gem:
(CNN) — The extremist group ISIS “probably” won’t be defeated under the current Obama administration, Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.
“This, as the President has said, is going to have to be a sustained effort,” Blinken said. “It’s going to take time, and it will probably go beyond even this administration to get to the point of defeat.”
Appearing on CNN on Wednesday, the deputy national security advisor told Wolf Blitzer that the fight against ISIS may be – like the once-defunct War on Terror – a generational struggle. Except he did not say that. Blinken said that throttling the nascent Islamic State in the crib is a project for the next occupant of the Oval Office.
“This, as the President has said, is going to have to be a sustained effort,” Blinken said. “It’s going to take time, and it will probably go beyond even this administration to get to the point of defeat.”
So does this mean the next administration will get a pass when it blames the current administration for Islamic terror that they inherit? That the GWoT (or Overseas Contingency Operations) wasn’t ended neat and tiddy-like during Obama’s charge to keep, when he had 8 years to “git ‘er dun”?
Nope. They will still find a way to blame Bush, even 8 years out of office later…
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
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