re: Obama supporters: What do you like about Obama's middle east foreign policy?

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Big12fan

It seems really stupid to me that Your president Obama would not try and agree on a status of forces agreement with then Al Maliki. It seems really stupid to me that his actions are speaking for itself, as in, he does not care about our border(which terrorist will exploit) He doesnt care that they are growing at a staggering rate and does not want to take the fight to them. These airstrikes are not doing anything because HE TELEGRAPHS EVERYTHING. This is the most uninterested, moronic POTUS I have ever seen. The worst in History.

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He is also your president. But no use arguing that.

At what point do you cut the apron strings with Maliki's Mafia? Had we not done so, he would still be PM but Obama's mistake was allowing him to stay in office. And at what point, after spending $18 billion on training & equipping a Shiite army, would they have been self-sufficient enough to defend themselves?

And you do realize that many of the ISIS & other radical Sunni groups are led by seasoned Bathist commanders who were thrown to the dogs by the Bush administration.

The entire fiasco from before the troops ever hit the ground in Iraq was the result of an administration being duped by Iranian agents, like Chalabi, whose intelligence the CIA relied on.

Is Obama a good wartime president? No. It isn't his strength and I'm sure he'd like to run away from this problem. But you can characterize his reluctance to further engage ISIS any way you want, but the truth is that an invasion of Iraq/Syria will not solve the problem of the middle east, but will only fuel the hatred and want for revenge that already exists.

It is time for other countries who have more at risk, have capable militaries, and are a relative short distance from the areas of conflicts. Our military does not need to sacrifice in order to save those who can save themselves. There is finally some signs of unity among the surrounding countries. Fear does that. Well, when the fear gets stronger, the other countries will either have to act or get swallowed up. I really doubt that ISIS will succeed in exporting their brutality beyond Iraq and Syria. If so, so be it.