When the Obama administration took office in January, they inherited a stable Iraq, in which U.S. troops had for over four years been relegated to training Iraq’s Armed Forces and Police and rebuilding its infrastructure.
Iraq’s government had held two democratic elections and was taking a more proactive role in running the country as the U.S. military’s role subsided.
That’s why the AP report about Sunday’s pre-dawn raid in the southern Shiite city of Kut that ended with at least one woman dead, after being caught in gunfire, and six suspects arrested for alleged links to Shiite militia factions, is so puzzling.
Jawad al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday as a "crime" that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts.
With Pakistan’s government being threatened by an expanding Taliban takeover of large swaths of that nation, it seems as though the Mideast has gotten a lot more volatile since the Obama administration came in seeking to end many of the Bush policies there.
Iraq’s government had held two democratic elections and was taking a more proactive role in running the country as the U.S. military’s role subsided.
That’s why the AP report about Sunday’s pre-dawn raid in the southern Shiite city of Kut that ended with at least one woman dead, after being caught in gunfire, and six suspects arrested for alleged links to Shiite militia factions, is so puzzling.
Jawad al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday as a "crime" that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts.
With Pakistan’s government being threatened by an expanding Taliban takeover of large swaths of that nation, it seems as though the Mideast has gotten a lot more volatile since the Obama administration came in seeking to end many of the Bush policies there.
The Mid East is unraveling under Obama because the forces of evil there know they now have a useful idiot in the White House.
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That's largely correct, although I'd say that, as the former head of the CIA's "Bin Laden Team" (Mike Scheuer" has said, "NO American administration, to date, has understood what they're dealing with in regards to radical jihadism."Scheuer lambasted the G W Bush administration, in his book Imperial Hubris for simply "Not killing enough of the bad guys."Scheuer, who initially oppsed enhanced interrogation techniques (including waterboarding) now readily admits "I was wrong,", noting that those techniques DID INDEED deliver critical information that saved many American lives.
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A fair question Seane-Anna and one I was going to ask myself.
The Obama administration is not only fully onboard with the homemortgage deduction that S-Jon suggests they aren't, but he's also onboard with the failed policies that created the current credit crisis - government encouraging, incentivizing and guaranteeing (through Fannie & Freddie) high-risk (subprime and other) loans to "help more people own their own homes."What's more, I'm a proud "half a Kearney from County Offaly" (my other half is Corsican and Northern Italian), and I can assure ANYONE that there's nothing at all subversive or untoward about the Kearney's from Offaly!
I was about to embark on my own bit of extended "frontier gibberish" as a response to S-Jon, but I decided that a little more decorum was in order.
Superb Jon is a troll. He basically has two posts, and this is the same schizo crap that he posted on my page. I wrote about it, if you're interested:
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