Yes. I'm not advocating for throwing friends under the bus and manipulating enemies to constrain the options of domestic political foes. I'll leave that as the Obama legacy that we should depart from, ASAP.

(11-25-2015 07:57 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  The right move was not to use language that implied an ultimatum that Obama wasn't willing to back up with US military force.

This.. the "red line" comment was a disaster in the making.

(11-26-2015 09:38 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-25-2015 07:57 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  The right move was not to use language that implied an ultimatum that Obama wasn't willing to back up with US military force. Once he did, the only option available was to arm Syrian opposition forces which looks like turned out to be ISIS. I don't exactly think things turned out differently than Obama hoped, at least up until Russia got involved.

The US didn't arm ISIS. The Iraqi army mostly did when they skedaddled after being attacked.

Maybe not, but maybe so. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mid...story.html

That article could confirm what some people in the media have hypothesized in the past couple years - that the US was/is aiding ISIS to unseat Assad. Lots of he-said, she-said in the article.

Bomb the **** out of them like Trump wanted to do. You know that he predicted 9/11 right?