{"id":39291,"date":"2014-01-14T07:16:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39291"},"modified":"2014-01-14T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:17:07","slug":"coy-dillard-the-presidents-failure-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39291","title":{"rendered":"Coby Dillard: The president’s failure in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Coby Dillard, who I’ve known since the day we stood outside the National Press Club<\/a> in the spring drizzle back in 2008 while Jeremiah Wright spoke inside, is an Iraq War Navy veteran and a co-founder of the old Veterans For Freedom along with TSO. He has an opinion piece in the Virginian-Pilot<\/a> this morning in regards to the fall of Fallujah and Ramadi to al Qaeda earlier this month.<\/p>\n

That such hard-earned gains – 134 service members were lost in the first and second battles in Fallujah – could be wiped out is a testament to the failure of President Barack Obama’s strategy of unconditional withdrawal in Iraq and flies in the face of the memories of those who lost their lives there.<\/p>\n

Instead of building on the gains of the Iraq surge, Obama decided it better to abandon the pursuit of decisive victory, only promising – as a candidate – that he would end the war “responsibly.”<\/p>\n

We now see what that entails. To be able to say that a campaign promise was fulfilled, our efforts in Iraq were cast aside by this president, as if our sacrifices meant little in comparison to being elected.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Even the war’s staunchest detractors must concede that we left those areas in markedly better condition than we found them in. Now, those gains have been discarded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Folks come here to TAH to read about how veterans think. they should head over to the VP and read Coby’s piece which echoes my own thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Coby Dillard, who I’ve known since the day we stood outside the National Press … Coby Dillard: The president’s failure 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-39291","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\/39291","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=39291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}