So, Obama and I finally agree on something – he says that he won’t send US troops to Iraq. Yep. they did their job and it’s up to the Iraqis to figure this stuff out for themselves, but, they do need some assistance. The Afgans’ Northern Alliance couldn’t defeat the Taliban by themselves in Afghanistan, but they got US air support and they rolled right over the Taliban, so that’s probably what the Iraqis need. A little moral support. But, really, it shouldn’t have got to this point.<\/p>\n
I’ll concede that it’s largely the Iraqis own fault. Maliki is a dumbass – no argument here. He needs to be reminded that he’s the leader of all Iraqis, not just Shi’ite Iraqis. But, as far as US involvement goes, the President told reporters<\/a> yesterday that his national security staff is working on a range of options that he can take to help the Iraqis.<\/p>\n Well, Fallujah fell to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria whichever the group formerly known as al Qaeda in Iraq is now calling themselves, back in January. What has the President’s national security staff been doing since then? Why are they always surprised by world events? The fall of Fallujah might have been a hint that things were going wrong in Iraq – well, to me anyway. There should have been a plan in place, along with some military assets that could be applied at a moment’s notice.<\/p>\n But the President and his staff only get their information from the news apparently. They’re consistently surprised by world events. It’s as if they don’t understand that their job is deal with these things before they happen based on the information that the rest of us don’t have. But, how many times has the President told us that he didn’t find out about problems until it was on MSNBC?<\/p>\n