...As things stand, the Obama Administration will be lucky if nothing worse happens than a government loosely-aligned with al Qaeda takes power with tacit Turkish and Syrian backing—an outcome that would have sent the commentariat into cascades of vituperation if President Bush had been responsible for something so nasty. And in Iraq, the policy of withdrawal clearly failed when Mosul fell; it now appears that the policy of limited re-entry is also in trouble, with the amount of support Obama is willing to provide failing to achieve his minimum goals.
To which Glenn Reynolds adds at Instapundit,
IF ISIS IS JV, THEN OUR ADMINISTRATION IS PEEWEE LEAGUE.
When your preferred strategy is to put problems off until after the next election, problems that could have been easily addressed when small become problems that require major efforts, and risks, to address. Pretty sure Obama’s plan is to continue to put that off until . . . after the next election, when it’s somebody eles’s problem. In essence, that’s what Clinton did with Osama bin Laden in the 1990s.
And here is what commenter Sardoni asks at Instapundit:
We sneak into Syria and insert boots on the ground to capture one guy; but we can't be bothered when ISIS - astoundingly - puts what looks to be every last piece of the wheeled and tracked military vehicles it possesses nose-to-nose for miles, just begging to be wiped out what would have been an even greater opportunity to deprive the Islamic war machine of a significant percentage of its war materiel and fighters than on the "Highway of Death" in Desert Storm. Where were the bombing runs, the Apache and Thunderbolt attacks?! Can you imagine what a string of cluster bombs on that victory parade would have done to ISIS? Heck, even if our current leaders have forgotten how to make war in the open, where were all the armed drones?!*
What the hell is wrong with the Obama people?! It's like ISIS was certain they could drop trou and show off their war machine like that because they knew Obama was too cowed to come and kill them.
*Okay, I know - the drones are now tasked with the vital intel work of surveilling suspected Tea Party supporters on US soil.
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