Speaking at the Brookings Institute Tuesday, Amos said the Obama administration paved the way for the emergence of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) by completely withdrawing American troops in 2011.
“I
have a hard time believing that had we been there, and worked with the
government, and worked with parliament, and worked with the minister of
defense, the minister of interior, I don't think we'd be in the same
shape we're in today,” Amos said.
That is pretty much an affirmative. If you cut and run you have no say in what happens going forward. Instead we get to go back in with the odds stacked against us. What is sad is that Iran will probably pull the strings and fill the gap we gave up. Maybe that is Obama's plan all along.
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