Will Obama now return and tell the nation that his August boast was hollow? Somehow I doubt it.
“ISIS Takes Over Two Towns On Mount Sinjar, Yazidis Plead For US Coalition To Save Them,” by Erin Banco, International Business Times, October 20, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
The Islamic State group has taken over two towns on Sinjar Mountain Monday, indicating that the Sunni militant group is advancing on territory that the U.S. had said that it had secured during its airstrikes on the region back in August. U.S. officials warned months ago that if ISIS militants succeed in advancing this far, the Yazidi population could be at risk of “a potential genocide.”
U.S. airstrikes on the area in August seemed to have secured the region. “The situation on the mountain has greatly improved,” President Obama said in am Aug. 15 speech. “We broke the ISIL siege of Mount Sinjar. We saved many innocent lives. Because of these efforts, we do not expect an additional operation to help rescue people off the mountain, and it is unlikely that we are going to need to continue humanitarian air drops on the mountain.”
But the Washington Post reported Monday that Yazidi volunteers who have been protecting the area for more than two months retreated from villages north of the mountain after the extremists attacked. The volunteers said they had pulled back to a shrine on the mountain but the militants were close by….
Champ says
Add this to feckless obama’s ever growing long list of failures …
Beagle says
IS supporter Fareed Cader Facebook comments on the article thusly:
“ISIS must bring all the countries that has been divided by the West, what Middle East needs now a very strong Islamic government that can bring all the countries that are at war with each other. The countries that were divided by the West must be brought back in one piece of land. You can’t have a king and queen for every community. ISIS must stop the Muslims fighting each other, for instance Libya, Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, Palestine and some other part of the Muslims land that was once called in native terms. Muslim strength lies in their unity not in disunity. Evey one knows that the media is painting a very bad picture of ISIS but the main cause of the malady in the Muslim world is American Zionist involvement.”
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Is he your neighbor, cab driver, or doctor? If so, look out!
Beagle says
If I found the right one, he lives in Sri Kanka and likes the Huffington Post. Not kidding.
Beagle says
Sri Lanka
stupid tiny phone buttons… grumble… grumble…
Missionary Chuma Nnabuihe says
It is not the size of the dog in a fight that wins the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. Islamic state fighters have what Americans lack, and that is the determination to fight and win.
umbra says
It is not ordinary Americans that are lacking, It is obama that is lacking.
Salah says
It doesn’t matter. Obama came to office because the ordinary American put him there…twice.
And Obama is STILL in office because the ordinary American is doing nothing to remove him.
Sooner or later the ordinary American will have to pay a price for his actions, or lack of.
Remember, Hitler came to power BECAUSE of the ordinary German.
wildjew says
Obama has done little to nothing to protect ethnic and religious minorities from Islamic State savages. You might be forgiven if you suspected Barack Obama supports the Islamic State jihad against non-Muslims and Muslim apostates.
Savant says
SO TRUE . But this is worse than Nazism and more diabolical.
Obama the Satanist, for the people, by the people, – against the people for the devil.,
There is no pulling out of this, we are entering apocalypse, and the return of Christ, thank God.