Posted on 03/26/2015 9:20:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Mounting chaos in the region puts the administration on the defensive.
Barack Obama faces a slew of Middle East crises that some call the worst in a generation, as new chaos from Yemen to Iraq — along with deteriorating U.S.-Israeli relations — is confounding the president’s efforts to stabilize the region and strike a nuclear deal with Iran. The meltdown has Obama officials defending their management of a region that some call impossible to control, even as critics say U.S. policies there are partly to blame for the spreading anarchy.
“If there’s one lesson this administration has learned, from President Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech through the Arab Spring, it’s that when it comes to this region, nothing happens in a linear way — and precious little is actually about us, which is a hard reality to accept,” said a senior State Department official.
Not everyone is so forgiving. “We’re in a [expletive] free fall here,” said James Jeffrey, who served as Obama’s ambassador to Iraq and was a top national security aide in the George W. Bush White House.
For years, members of the Obama team has grappled with the chaotic aftermath of the Arab Spring. But of late they have been repeatedly caught off-guard, raising new questions about America’s ability to manage the dangerous region.
Obama officials were surprised earlier this month, for instance, when the Iraqi government joined with Iranian-backed militias to mount a sudden offensive aimed at freeing the city of Tikrit from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Nor did they foresee the swift rise of the Iranian-backed rebels who toppled Yemen’s U.S.-friendly government and disrupted a crucial U.S. counterterrorism mission against Al Qaeda there...
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<<< “If there’s one lesson this administration has learned >>>
This president hasn’t learned anything since his Alinsky training.
BINGO! The rise of radical Islam, the weakening of America and Israel. This was his plan from the beginning and he’s seeing it through. His puppet-masters are seeing their dreams realized.
You have succinctly summarized the disastrous presidency of an incredibly small man, put forth by like-minded and even more nefarious individuals who seek to destroy freedom for all but themselves.
The Chicago Way.
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nothing a “reset” button wont fix, where did hildabeast leave it?
Emphasis here is on the "little kid". We've got one in the White House for sure. He has attention-deficit disorder when he has to confront and deal with a crisis and instead, he's off to play golf again. He's done it time and time again. And he throws temper-tantrums when things don't go his way or people don't give him unwarranted attention his ego craves. Like he just did when Netanyahu showed him up with a speech to the US Congress and then turns around and rubs it to little Barry's face by winning the election that Barry was working so hard to defeat him in.
Lack of a firm hand and exhibiting the strong US leadership role the Middle East is so used to, has emboldened our enemies who see Obama's weakness as a signal to became the alpha dogs in this pack of feral mutts.
Sorta like a wet suit
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