Showing posts with label Ramadi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ramadi. Show all posts

Saturday, May 23, 2015

"ISIS's tactics are adjusting...doesn't mean the group is invincible"

May 23, 2015 Armin Rosen , Business Insider 0 Comments
What Everyone Is Missing About ISIS' Big Week

By Armin Rosen, May 22, 2015, Business Insider

ISIS has made alarming gains in Iraq and Syria over the past week.

On May 17, ISIS fighters took Ramadi, a city just 70 west of Baghdad, after a battle in which the jihadist group advanced into the city behind a wave of suicide bombers. Capturing Palmyra, a former Assad regime bastion in Syria, proved easier, as a collapsing Syrian military essentially vacated the city in the face of the ISIS advance.

And an 11-month US-led bombing campaign hasn't prevented ISIS from taking and holding additional territory. This week, ISIS has looked formidable, while the US's strategy has seemed particularly ineffective and aimless. On May 21st, reports began circulating that ISIS controlled half of Syrian territory.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Obama Turned A "Dumb War" Into A Dumb Defeat

May 20, 2015 American Thinker , Daniel John Sobieski 0 Comments
Obama Snatched Ramadi Defeat From Bush Victory 

By Daniel John Sobieski, May 20, 2015, American Thinker

The White House description of the fall of Ramadi to ISIS forces we have supposedly been busy degrading and destroying as a “setback” is like the British calling Dunkirk in World War II a strategic withdrawal. Ramadi is a defeat, the result of the precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by President Obama against the advice of military minds who know better about these things than the former community organizer from Illinois.

It is a defeat for President Obama’s foreign policy, a rebuke of his fundamental transformation of America’s role in the world from a leader who shaped events to one of treating foreign affairs as a spectator sport, with the U.S. “leading from behind” and being left behind in the process.

Critics of our role in Iraq offer the chaos in Iraq as a rebuke of President George W. Bush’s decision to topple the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, a regime that had used weapons of mass destruction against Iran in its war with its equally belligerent neighbor, and which had used these weapons against its own people at Halabja. The successful defeat of Saddam Hussein and liberation of Iraq was done at great expense in lives and treasure.

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Renews the debate? It Never Left!

May 20, 2015 Fox News , Iraq 0 Comments
ISIS capture of Ramadi renews criticism over US troop pullout, airstrike strategy

By Fox News, May 19, 2015

The Islamic State’s capture of the Iraqi city of Ramadi is sparking renewed criticism of Obama administration policies in the region -- from the decision to withdraw virtually all U.S. troops in 2011 to the current anti-ISIS strategy that relies mostly on airstrikes.

The fall Sunday of Ramadi, just 70 miles from Baghdad, marks the second time in roughly a year that the extremist group has taken control of a major Iraqi city -- after the United States spent nearly eight years at war in the country.

The administration repeatedly has defended its strategy for halting the Islamic State’s deadly advances in Iraq and Syria but acknowledged on Monday that the Ramadi takeover was indeed a major loss.

“No denying it is a setback,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz, while reiterating the administration expected a long, hard battle and has no plans to change its strategy.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, later qualified the statement, saying Ramadi was a “serious setback for its long-suffering inhabitants” and Iraqi security forces.

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