President Barack Obama acknowledged that U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq’s army to fight.<\/p>\n
Questioning Obama’s strategy to destroy the group, House Speaker John Boehner said the U.S. may have “no choice” but to send in American troops if the mix of U.S.-led airstrikes and a ground campaign reliant on Iraqi forces, Kurdish fighters and soon-to-be trained Syrian rebels fails to achieve that goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Good to see Boehner getting ready to put boots on the ground, ain’t it? <\/p>\n
But, in regards to that headline, no, the US didn’t misjudge, it was the Obama Administration that misjudged. The rest of us out here could see it without the benefit of his intelligence assets. The Obama Administration ignored the signs because that’s what they chose to do. That’s what they do about everything. Immigration. Ebola. Russia. North Korea. Boko Haram. Iraq. Afghanistan. Somalia. Syria. I probably left out some of the other things that this administration did nothing about until the situation got out of hand while all of the time they were hoping that the problem would go away or get handled by someone else. Someone competent and not worried by the political repercussions of doing the right thing in a timely manner.<\/p>\n
He noted that his director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has acknowledged that the U.S. “underestimated what had been taking place in Syria.” Obama also said it was “absolutely true” that the U.S. overestimated the ability and will of the Iraqi army.<\/p>\n
The Obama administration has cited its intelligence weaknesses before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s probably because of those Tea Party people who infiltrated the intelligence services and undermine the nation’s security because they don’t like the President. Or it could be because this administration is willfully blind to anything that takes their attention away from fundamentally changing this country they claim to love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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