Obama extends the war in Afghanistan until 2024.
Obama has managed to paint himself as a dove despite his impressive record of war.
Panetta says war against ISIS will take 30 years to win. What does victory look like, Leon?
"Panetta says Obama erred:What a pack of lies. Panetta is clearly in the Clinton camp, already trying to destroy Obama's legacy.
• By not pushing the Iraqi government harder to allow a residual U.S. force to remain when troops withdrew in 2011, a deal he says could have been negotiated with more effort. That "created a vacuum in terms of the ability of that country to better protect itself, and it's out of that vacuum that ISIS began to breed." Islamic State also is known as ISIS and ISIL.
• By rejecting the advice of top aides — including Panetta and then-secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — to begin arming Syrian rebels in 2012. If the U.S. had done so, "I do think we would be in a better position to kind of know whether or not there is some moderate element in the rebel forces that are confronting (Syrian President Bashar) Assad."
• By warning Assad not to use chemical weapons against his own people, then failing to act when that "red line" was crossed in 2013. Before ordering airstrikes, Obama said he wanted to seek congressional authorization, which predictably didn't happen."
Like everybody else, Turkey's priority is ousting Assad, not ISIS.
ISIS militants infiltrating Europe disguised as refuges.
Threat from Syrian al Qaeda affiliate continues.
"The Khorasan Group, a small but battle-hardened band of al-Qaida veterans from Afghanistan and Pakistan, was the target of U.S. strikes near Aleppo, Syria."I guess the strikes weren't very effective.
"In an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," Comey said the militants were "working and, you know, may still be working on an effort to attack the United States or our allies, and looking to do it very, very soon.""Sounds vague, but it keeps war fever high.
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