......last November, Obama dismissed ISIS and other al-Qaeda affiliates as nothing more than a jayvee squad. While interviewing Obama, The New Yorkers David Remnick noted that the flag of al-Qaeda is now flying in Fallujah, in Iraq, and among various rebel factions in Syria, and that al-Qaeda has asserted a presence in parts of Africa, too. The president shot back: If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesnt make them Kobe Bryant. Now, that same junior varsity team controls more territory than any terrorist organization in history, has some 5,000 battle-hardened jihadists with Western passports, hundreds of millions of dollars at its disposal, and is earning millions more every day by selling oil on the black market. It is slaughtering Shiites, Christians and other infidels with a medieval abandon that makes the alleged A-team of al-Qaeda blanch with horror. At this moment it has cornered tens of thousands of Yazidi villagers on a mountaintop. ISIS presents them with a choice: convert to Islam at gunpoint or die of thirst. Jonah Goldberg Score another one for Obamas uncanny inability to get any foreign policy right. To paraphrase Israels late Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Obama never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:10:53 +0000
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