A day late and a dollar short ...
He’s trying to do the opposite of what he did in Benghazi...except their was no “army” invading Benghazi...just a bunch of guys who had watched a video.
Couldn’t this same order be issued in support of the Embassy in Tripoli/Benghazi?
By not reaching any SOFA agreement with Maliki, and then by largely remaining diplomatically silent as Maliki began to make of himself another Saddam, this time giving governmental preference to the Shia majority over the Sunni minority, Obama gave all the right signals for Maliki to radicalized Sunni opposition to him and for those radicals to see Malaki and the government in Baghdad would not get much assistance from the U.S.
The two big beneficiaries of Obama’s Iraq policy have been Sunni radicals leading the charge for all Iraqi Sunnis fed up with Maliki and Iran, whom Maliki has increasingly been under the sway of.