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Very interesting read, if you actually take the time to read it...
Obama made the opposite mistake. In his eagerness to avoid making Bush’s mistakes, he made a whole new set of mistakes. He over-interpreted the recent past, fabricating the myth about a hyper-interventionist establishment. As a result, he overreacted to the situation he inherited in 2009 and, crucially, never adjusted during his eight years in office. In this sense and others, he contrasts starkly with Bush, who made major changes in his second term. The result is that Obama retrenched when he should have engaged. He oversaw the collapse of order across the Middle East and the resurgence of great power rivalry in Europe while mismanaging two wars and reducing America’s military posture abroad to its smallest footprint since World War II. Despite the paeans of Obama’s admirers, this is not a foreign policy legacy future presidents will want to emulate."
Obama made the opposite mistake. In his eagerness to avoid making Bush’s mistakes, he made a whole new set of mistakes. He over-interpreted the recent past, fabricating the myth about a hyper-interventionist establishment. As a result, he overreacted to the situation he inherited in 2009 and, crucially, never adjusted during his eight years in office. In this sense and others, he contrasts starkly with Bush, who made major changes in his second term. The result is that Obama retrenched when he should have engaged. He oversaw the collapse of order across the Middle East and the resurgence of great power rivalry in Europe while mismanaging two wars and reducing America’s military posture abroad to its smallest footprint since World War II. Despite the paeans of Obama’s admirers, this is not a foreign policy legacy future presidents will want to emulate."
Reassessing Obama’s Legacy of Restraint
Posted from warontherocks.com
Barack Obama
Foreign Policy
Middle East
Terrorism
GWOT
Posted 8 y ago
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Legacy of campaign promise to pulling American Forces out before the country was stable: Iraq central government ignored Sunnis. ISIS born from this and Syrian Civil war. Power vacuum. Iraq sunni militias cut off financially when Operation New Dawn completed since Shia Iraqi Government did not care. Sunnis went to ISIS and Mosul fell.
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PO1 John Crafton -
1. Going into Iraq with too small a force against Gen. Shinseki's advice.
2. Firing Col./O-6 and above and all Baath party members is what started the original insurgency like you said PO1 John Crafton
1. Going into Iraq with too small a force against Gen. Shinseki's advice.
2. Firing Col./O-6 and above and all Baath party members is what started the original insurgency like you said PO1 John Crafton
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SFC Shirley Whitfield - either way Europe is unstable Sweden is a mess President Obama Show Boat Tour was a sinking boats and at least 200,000 people have died or more because of pulling troops out of Iraq
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SFC Shirley Whitfield - tiresome it is not President Obama was the match the sticks of dynamite. A stupid match at that. Yes we went into Iraq and we were lied to and so was Colin Powell lied to. He went to Iraq with not enough soldiers period Donald Rumsfeld didn't care and neither did Paul Bremer when American retired generals and Iraqi active generals were saying don't fire the military or the baath party leaders and so we spent eight years with elections and trying to stop 7 years of Insurgency only for mr. Chicago Southside to light the match to set the whole thing off and now Iraq Syria and Western Europe are paid for it.
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SFC Shirley Whitfield - President Obama to do a better job in Afghanistan I read the book Obama's Wars and it was good. I wish President Obama would have had that common sense with Iraq.
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Excellent post. Illustrates the Failure of a Self proclaimed Myth, a delusional Narcissist whose legacy consists on red lines which turned yellow. Anyone can conceive that he did more to destroy American power and influence throughout the world and in effect promote our enemies agenda.
Good riddance, now relegated to leading a quasi coup/stealth civil war against an elected president. Their own promotions of innuendos will come back to bite them in their ass, investigations are already underway and many of those investigated will end up in prison.
Question is how many of them will fall upon the proverbial sword and how many will turn into government's witnesses, time will tell, cleansing will take place, all this, while we stumble into the greatest reveal of Treason and Corruption in our country's history.
Chalk it up to another progressive attempt to destroy from within.
Good riddance, now relegated to leading a quasi coup/stealth civil war against an elected president. Their own promotions of innuendos will come back to bite them in their ass, investigations are already underway and many of those investigated will end up in prison.
Question is how many of them will fall upon the proverbial sword and how many will turn into government's witnesses, time will tell, cleansing will take place, all this, while we stumble into the greatest reveal of Treason and Corruption in our country's history.
Chalk it up to another progressive attempt to destroy from within.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. This is why China is successfully stealing something like 10% of the earth's surface. (Number is contrived to make the point, people. Don't get any panties into a bunch.)
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