{"id":32113,"date":"2012-09-24T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32113"},"modified":"2012-09-24T07:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:57:52","slug":"new-york-times-obamas-failures-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32113","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Obama’s failures in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course, Michael Gordon (in an article adapted from his book “The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama”) in the New York Times<\/a> falls short of mentioning the real reasons for the failures of leaving a stable government in Iraq, namely a pre-announced time line for withdrawal, but he does finally get around to mentioning that Iraq isn’t the big success that the Obama Campaign likes to wave in front of us to distract from the other reasons he shouldn’t be allowed to continue as the President;<\/p>\n

White House officials portray their exit strategy as a success, asserting that the number of civilian fatalities in Iraq is low compared with 2006, when the war was at its height. Politics, not violence, has become the principal means for Iraqis to resolve their differences, they say. \u201cRecent news coverage of Iraq would suggest that as our troops departed, American influence went with them and our administration shifted its focus away from Iraq,\u201d Antony Blinken, the national security adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said in a speech in March. \u201cThe fact is, our engagements have increased.\u201d<\/p>\n

To many Iraqis, the United States\u2019 influence is greatly diminished. \u201cAmerican policy is very weak,\u201d observed Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff to Massoud Barzani, the president of the semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. \u201cIt is not clear to us how they have defined their interests in Iraq,\u201d Mr. Hussein said. \u201cThey are picking events and reacting on the basis of events. That is the policy.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since this administration sees the answer to the future of Iraq as political rather than one of security, their solution to everything is installing puppets throughout the government that will be beholden to the US kingmakers like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Isn’t that how we ended up with Hamid Karzai and his corrupt government in Afghanistan? Afghans should take notes from this article and decide who they want to plan their future. Would it be “Hard Wood<\/a>” Joe Biden or Paul Ryan they trust more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course, Michael Gordon (in an article adapted from his book “The Endgame: The Inside Story … New York Times: Obama’s failures in Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}