Obama’s JV Team Wins Again

Obama’s JV Team Wins Again

For the last few days, the U.S. media has been all twitter-pated about the new candidates for President. Most especially Hillary and her Scooby Van Iowa tour, complete with stops at Chipotle, staged meetings with “voters,” and parking poor ole Scooby in a handicapped parking spot so she could trek through the airport to show us that HEY! She’s one of us because she flies commercial! Or something.

Meanwhile Obama’s JV team keeps adding to their win column. Yemen, last fall spotlighted by Obama as a HUGE GINORMOUS foreign policy success continues to implode, and the JV team has taken advantage of that implosion in spades. Yemen is on the verge of civil war and ISIS good buddies Al Qaeda just made things worse.

Al Qaeda seized control of a major airport, a sea port and an oil terminal in southern Yemen on Thursday, consolidating its hold on the country’s largest province amid wider chaos pitting Shiite rebels against forces loyal to the exiled president and a Saudi-led air campaign.

Here we have ISIS and Al Qaeda making huge gains in Yemen, and ISIS in particular is doing the same in Iraq. As reported by The Guardian’s Kaamil Ahmed in Beirut, Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington and Spencer Ackerman in New York, Ramadi is in crisis:

Islamic State fighters have launched an offensive aimed at seizing the capital of the Iraq’s central Anbar province, as the country’s prime minister warned that if unchecked, the militants could become unstoppable.

The advance on the city of Ramadi is the most serious Isis campaign since Iraqi forces recaptured the city of Tikrit, and has displaced thousands of civilians.
Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
Abadi said the group was “recruiting young people not only in Iraq but across the world – I stress across the world.
“It’s not only transnational, they’re trying to establish an entity on the ground. And if Daesh has developed this capability, no uniformed army can stop them. And they must be stopped,” he said.

The Iraquis believe that ISIS taking over Ramadi will be a very symbolic and debilitating defeat to the country. However, there are a few U.S. officials who disagree with that assessment:

The most senior US military officer played down the significance of a potential Isis victory in Ramadi.
“The city itself is not symbolic in any way, it’s not been declared part of the caliphate on one hand or central to the future of Iraq,” General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon.
“I’d much rather that Ramadi not fall, but it won’t be the end of a campaign should it fall. We’ve got to get it back.”

You know what? I think the Iraqis IN and around Ramadi don’t care one whit if Dempsey believes the city falling to ISIS isn’t symbolic or whatever. They are concerned with trying to stay alive and out of ISIS crosshairs, and so they are leaving with only what they can carry.

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CNN’s Arwa Damon and Hamdi Alkhshali’s report from Ramadi vividly outlines the plight of those fleeing from ISIS:

Moments later, we see the impact: An endless stream of humanity, shell shocked, and exhausted. Parents cradle babies in blankets, some struggle under the weight of their belongings, some carry small plastic bags, while others nothing but the children clutching at their hands.
Cars are not permitted to cross this bridge across the Euphrates. The government feels that restricting vehicles will decrease the likelihood of explosives making their way into Iraq’s capital.
Those too young or too tired to walk pile into metal carts pushed by boys or young men, normally used to carry produce to markets. An elderly woman sits in one, a child in her arms, a worn down plastic doll in her hand.

Losing their home and having to flee for their lives from the evil that is ISIS is more than symbolic, it is beyond tragic. Yet the ISIS JV team continues to chalk up more wins while reaping a path of destruction across Iraq and into Yemen.  That destruction includes destroying mosques, ancient artifacts, destroying Christian graves in Mosul, and leveling to the ground the ancient city of Nimrud:

ISIS is destroying lives, cities, laying waste to centuries worth of history, torturing and beheading those they deem infidels, and far too effectively recruiting followers from all over the world.  In the meantime, where is Obama?  Good question!  Vice President Biden is designated to speak on his behalf in defense of foreign policy criticism:

There’s just one problem with these critiques: The claims do not reflect the circumstances on the ground. The claims do not respect and represent the circumstances on the ground.

Someone needs a reality check, and Charles Krauthammer provides one:

The administration is quickly developing a huge problem of credibility. When the vice president says that, and within seven days ISIS is at the gates of Ramadi, it has it surrounded, as you said, the civilians are fleeing, they are also attacking Baiji, which is a very strategic point because it is a producer of oil; you’ve got to ask yourself, what exactly is the vice president talking about?

Biden doesn’t have a clue. Furthermore, Obama’s Mideast policy is and always has been a shambles.  So how does the ISIS JV coach handle all the recent events?  Lets see, he golfed on Sunday – SHOCKER, spent time in North Carolina discussing equal pay, and handed Cuba keys to the kingdom by removing it from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.  During this busy time, has he deigned to mention anything about his JV Team’s awesome win record so far? That would be a resounding NO. I don’t know why not.  I mean really, designating ISIS as the JV team is the only true foreign policy success he’s had these last 6 years. I’d brag about it, wouldn’t you?

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  • Merle says:

    The administration is quickly developing a huge problem of credibility.

    Well now – that’s not new is it?

    Merle

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