Left wing talking head, Peter Beinart in TheAtlantic, Jan 2014.
Trump calls Obama ISIS' MVP. Press throws a fit. Fact check sites say he's wrong.
Yet...
http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...mas-disastrous-iraq-policy-an-autopsy/373225/
Obama's Disastrous Iraq Policy: An Autopsy
But sooner or later, honest liberals will have to admit that Obama’s Iraq policy has been a disaster. Since the president took office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has grown ever more tyrannical and ever more sectarian, driving his country’s Sunnis toward revolt. Since Obama took office, Iraq watchers—including those within his own administration—have warned that unless the United States pushed hard for inclusive government, the country would slide back into civil war. Yet the White House has been so eager to put Iraq in America’s rearview mirror that, publicly at least, it has given Maliki an almost-free pass.
Until now, when it may be too late.
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For the Obama administration, however, tangling with Maliki meant investing time and energy in Iraq, a country it desperately wanted to pivot away from. A few months before the 2010 elections, according to Dexter Filkins in
The New Yorker, “American diplomats in Iraq sent a rare dissenting cable to Washington, complaining that
the U.S., with its combination of support and indifference, was encouraging Maliki’s authoritarian tendencies.”
