.....or precisely that for which Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been begging for over the past year, and received bupkis. Will personal embarrassment be the motivator that finally prods Barack Obama to answer the call that strategic sanity and common sense were not?
C'mon, you know the answer to that question - "gods don't make mistakes":
If Iraq falls to extremists threatening to topple its government, it will pose a "grave threat" to U.S. national security, according to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who urged the president to provide immediate assistance to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The Kentucky Republican blames the situation in Iraq on President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw troops without leaving peacekeeping forces, reports the Hill. And if the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which is an offshoot of al-Qaeda, takes over Iraq, it will mean that all gains made in recent years will be lost.
He did not call Friday for the redeployment of American ground troops, but said Iraqi security forces need the United States' help.
"The Iraqi security forces are now less capable than when the president withdrew the entirety of our force without successfully negotiating a remaining U.S. presence capable of preserving our gains and mentoring our partners," he said in a statement on Friday.
Which is why Iraq is already as good as lost. The Iraqi army that we painstakingly raised up, trained, and equipped, is evaporating like a loogie in a blast furnace. Anywhere from 60,000 to 90,000 of its soldiers have either run away or switched sides, and God only knows the magnitude of the haul in American weapons ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq & Syria) forces have taken. That's on top of the half billion dollars in gold bullion that ISIS militants looted from Mosul banks this week, which could finance as many as 60,000 additional jihadist fighters.
Senator McConnell's heart is in the right place, but the fact is that military assistance to the crumbling Iraqi government will simply end up in ISIS hands just like what they've already seized. What is needed is what Barack Obama withdrew two and a half years ago: thousands of American troops. McConnell isn't calling for that both because the American public, which was utterly attitudinally poisoned by the Left for almost a decade by their cynical, Ameriphobic "anti-war" seditions, wouldn't stand for it, and facing what some consider a tough re-election bid, he's not going to "die" on that particular hill; and because, of course, Barack Obama would never order it, and would never be subjected to the slightest public pressure to do so, as he's calculatedly insured.
And so Iraq will fall to the enemy we defeated back in 2007 and 2008 because Barack Obama wanted it to happen. Because his mission is to destroy any and all manifestations of American power and influence. And the result will be the same as it always is: strategic defeat and "humanitarian disaster," which is a prissy way of saying, "more corpses than a Thriller video."
So why has Defense Commissar Chuck Hagel ordered the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush and its battle group to the Persian Gulf? Simple - if all goes well, a successful reenactment of the evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Saigon in April of 1975. Or, put another way, Iraq will finally have been transformed into another Vietnam. And if all doesn't go well, a successful reenactment of the Benghazi massacre on an even bigger scale.
Do We, The People, have any reason - any at all - to muster the slightest degree of confidence that things will "go well," which is to say, not suffering any more U.S. casualties or deaths in our pell mell retreat? You'll be heartened to know that President Gutsy Call addressed this issue yesterday.
Actually, I lied, you won't be heartened at all:
“This poses a danger to Iraq and its people and, given the nature of these terrorists, it could pose a threat eventually to American interests as well,” said Obama said of the offensive. “We will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq, but I have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options.”
But while McConnell and others want Obama to take immediate action, the president warned Friday that any action will take time to happen.
"People should not anticipate that this is something that is going to happen overnight,” he said. “We want to make sure that we have good eyes on the situation there. We want to make sure that we’ve gathered all the intelligence that’s necessary so that if in fact I do direct and order any actions there, that they’re targeted, they’re precise and they’re going to have an effect."
Nice of it to dawn on O that the enemy his predecessor defeated and which he's resurrected really is terroristic and a threat to us. 'course, that's only in the sense that if he continued insisting otherwise in light of this week's disastrous events, he'd look like an even bigger idiot than he does already.
The "range of other options" is pure, undiluted, time-wasting "national security" five-knuckle-shuffling. The only option that can re-defeat ISIS is a massive redeployment of American ground forces - in essence, re-fighting the Iraq war all over again. Since Red Barry will never do that, he's just diddling around to try and "look presidential" while awaiting the inevitable endgame he always sought and set into motion. The dead giveaway for which is his "this is not going to happen overnight" crack. ISIS forces are reportedly only sixty miles away from Baghdad, and not slowing down. The situation is inconsiderately deteriorating on a much faster schedule than is convenient for the White House, and that's just fine for them, because it will soon relieve them of the tiresome necessity of maintaining that blindingly phony "national security" artifice.
And if our Baghdad embassy gets overrun, sacked, and its personnel captured or massacred? Could The One survive that extra-Carteresque calamity? Or would he even give a damn, since Benghazi got deep-sixed down the totalitarian midden hole that would await this one?
Something tells me we're going to find out.
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