McConnell: ISIS is a Consequence of Obama’s Foreign Policy

by Elizabeth Nelson

Who can deny McConnell is onto something here, Obama's Foreign Policy is a hot mess, even Bush warned Obama and all of America, in 2007, when everyone wanted him to pull out of Iraq, that if we pulled out before we decimated al-Qaeda the consequences would be dire for not only America but for Iraq.

“I know some in Washington would like us to start leaving Iraq now. To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we’re ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States.

• It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al-Qaeda [ISIS].
  
• It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.
   
• It would mean we’d allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven [Islamic State the size of Belgium] in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.
  
• It would mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.”

Obama entered this Presidency with the mindset of a political war, of Americans vs. Muslims and it was Bush's war, not his war to win and he was going to be the hero and stop it.  So he has no one to blame but himself for the vacuum he caused in our pull-out and ISIS jumping in it and growing stronger in its darkness, and the Islamic State he created.

With Obama's "core coalition" rotting out, before the rest of the coalition of 10 is even formed, or can even hits ISIS, "wherever they are." Now there's another wrinkle in Obama's genius political strategy to "degrade and manage" ISIS.  If Obama bombs ISIS in Syria, without permission from Bashar al-Assad, it will be seen, by al-Assad, as "an act of aggression."

Syria’s foreign minister warned the U.S. on Monday not to conduct airstrikes inside Syria against the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham group without Damascus’ consent, saying any such attack would be considered an aggression.  I guess this means that al-Assad and Putin, his friend, won't be joining Obama's core of " merry men." So, what do all of Obama's failed foreign policies mean for the future of U.S.A, when we put them all together, do you think he'll figure it out in time to take the war to ISIS in  Syria, as he said he would or just make it worse? 

"Moreover, I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: [since when?] if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven."  

Will Obama find his "foreign policy grove" in Syria and Iraq, with ISIS/Boko Haram; well, I guess that all depends on if you're looking at this as a liberal with Obama-rose-colored glasses or a conservative with clear eyes.  Basically we have a high school football coach in charge of an NFL football team that we already see has a losing record, and what do you think he's going to do, when he's on the field, faced with an aggressive team that doesn't just want to take out or knees but wants to take off our head?

So, we won't be allowed to call this a "War on Terror," because Obama didn't "take action and hunt down terrorist threats, in our Country or anywhere else for that matter." Years later, we still don't have an answer for Benghazi." No, he ended that war, but "Bin Laden is dead, and al-Qaeda is on the run." No, they just reinvent themselves as well as Madonna in the 80s. They may have been "on the run", but has now they've reinvented themselves as a meaner, bigger, smarter, technical, madder ISIS and whatever other group they may pop up as next, mr. Obama, because your foreign policies failed us.  

     

11 Reasons Why ISIS is more Dangers than Obama's "Decimated" Al-Qaeda

By Elizabeth Nelson

"The Iraq war is over, al-Qaeda has been decimated and Osama Bin Laden is dead."  I'll continue once your eyes have stopped rolling in the back of your head. We all understand how Obama works by now, once the words escape his lips, whether they are true or not, we are supposed to believe them as fact and they become reality, regardless. 

However, now we are facing an America that, because of his policies, we aren't safe and we are staring at an ISIS Army that is more terrifying than al-Qaeda, who is still around, ever thought of being.   Here are eleven reasons why ISIS is more dangerous and pose such a demonstrative security threat, more so  than "decimated" al-Qaeda, pre-9/11.

1. ISIS is more media sophisticated than al-Qaeda and excels in using social media as a tool of terrorism. The group’s twitter and YouTube postings in English show that the West is often their target audience.

2. ISIS is flush with cash. ISIS’ territorial control allows for consistent stream of funding, and they‘ve developed an extensive extortion racket, as well as selling electricity and exporting oil and gas.

3. Because of ISIS rise to prominence, many al-Qaeda-linked groups are now pledging allegiance to al-Baghdadi’s ISIS, including elements of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Ansar al-Dine (Tunisia) Boko Haram, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), giving ISIS access to a global network of terrorists.

4. ISIS controls territory the size of Maryland in the heart of the arab world, which is important for a predominantly Arab revolutionary terrorist group. The al-Qaeda core group along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border controls no territory and is dependent on Afghan and Pakistani Islamist militants who act as hosts.

5. ISIS has evolved into a proto-state, with its own army, civil administration, judiciary and a sophisticated propaganda operation. Al-Qaeda core leaders are fugitives who are forced to live a clandestine existence under the constant threat of drone strikes or commando assaults.

6. ISIS is the most heavily-armed Islamist extremist group in history, having captured huge amounts of military weapons and equipment in Iraq and Syria.

7. ISIS is out-recruiting Al-Qaeda. It is estimated that 80 percent of the foreign militants that flock to Syria join ISIS, rather than al-Qaeda’s franchise, the Al-Nusra Front. ISIS appears to have success with recruitment of Westerners as well.

8. The leader of ISIS, who goes by the nom de guerre of Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, is a charismatic leader who claims descent from the Prophet Mohammed. This will help recruit young, impressionable Muslims. He has much more personal appeal for young Muslim militants than Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, a dour and didactic theoretician.

9. ISIS is better placed to not only attract recruits from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States, but get them into the fight. It is much easier to travel across the dissolving borders of Iraq and Syria than it is to travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan.

10. ISIS has declared the rebirth of the Caliphate and the leader of ISIS has proclaimed himself to be Caliph Ibrahim.

11. ISIS is the richest terrorist group in history. It looted at least five banks in Iraq, including Mosul’s central bank, which yielded more than $400 million dollars in gold and Iraqi currency. It controls oil fields in Syria and Iraq that generate income and it has pocketed millions of dollars in ransoms for hostages.  Read more Daily Signal

Obama has done nothing but underestimate ISIS, "the Jayvee team," from the beginning.  However, now we can all see that this is far from  the "Jayvee team, as ISIS is not just a terror group, ISIS is an army now, thanks to Obama's lead from behind failure to act.

 ISIS has now become the biggest terrorist group ever and now has 28 tanks, including American Abrams, in its Army. 

They have actually been established as a state and a caliphate at that, and it’s now exceeded the wealth of it's predecessor, al-Qaeda, and ISIS has exceeded the territory that al-Qaeda once held, so that has caused it to draw more recruits than al-Qaeda, including our Americans fighting for ISIS. 

We don't have to even mention which group is more merciless, especially when it was Al-Qaeda who cut ties with ISIS in 2009-2010, because ISIS was more brutal and they followed through with their, "Convert to die" mentality, and al-Qaeda just couldn't stomach it.  This is not an army that can just be "resisted," this is an Army that has to be decimated.  Not only do they make their hate and their intentions known, but they follow through with them.