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A White House meeting’s scheduled for this afternoon, where congressional leaders will learn the incumbent’s plan for dealing with ISIS, and likely will include the probability of increased U.S. involvement. Perhaps even deployment of ground troops. If the event is televised, an appropriate title would be “Sergeant Schultz meets F Troop.”  

 

An excellent summation of the incumbent’s upcoming speech, regarding the current status of the situation, appeared in today’s New York Times, by Peter Baker, titled: “A President Whose Assurances Have Come Back to Haunt Him”

 

Mr. Baker writes that, “In making his speech, Mr. Obama faces the challenge of reconciling those views with the new mission he is presenting to the American public to recommit the armed forces of the United States to the region he tried to leave. Rather than a junior varsity nuisance, he will try to convince Americans that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria represents a clear threat to national security in a state that is hardly stable. And he will seek to win patience for more war from a public that wishes it really was receding.”

 

The article goes on, “To Mr. Obama’s critics, the disparity between the president’s previous statements and today’s reality reflects not simply poorly chosen words but a fundamentally misguided view of the world. Rather than clearly see the persistent dangers as the United States approaches the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, they said, Mr. Obama perpetually imagines a world as he wishes it were.”

 

And in the last sentences of both preceding paragraphs, Mr. Baker describes the cause of the current problems perfectly. Because, in every critical case, far leftist hopes, wishes and political theory’s overrode facts and actual circumstances, regardless of the significant risks incurred by those actions that are now being manifested.    

 

Further along in the article, “White House officials said the president’s opponents distorted what he said to score political points or hold him responsible for evolving events that were not foreseen. They also say Mr. Obama’s past statements are hardly on a scale of Mr. Bush’s unfounded assertions about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, not to mention Mr. Bush’s May 2003 speech in front of a banner that said “Mission Accomplished,” meant to signal an end to the major combat in Iraq.”

 

The fact of the matter, however, is that Mr. Bush wished to leave a residual force behind in Iraq large enough to protect the gains that had been made and as a deterrent against the very incursions occurring at present, although significant numbers of U.S. troops would head back home. It was the incumbent who failed to negotiate a satisfactory and safe withdrawal, ultimately abandoning the Iraqi nation entirely by establishing an all-to-soon deadline, paving the way for ISIS at present. 

 

But, even worse, is the continual denial by White House “officials” that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction didn’t exist, when proofs confirm that they certainly did. As written about by Tom Wilson in Commentary on June 20, 2014, as follows:

 

“The latest bad news from Iraq now includes the reports that ISIS has captured one of Saddam Hussein’s chemical-weapons facilities at Al Muthanna 45 miles north of Baghdad. Naturally this has caused a certain degree of disquiet, but U.S. officials have reassured that they don’t believe the weapons there are usable and have stressed that it is unlikely that the rebels would be able to use the facilities to produce chemical weaponry. Indeed, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki attempted to calm concerns that the Islamists could use the weapons by insisting that “it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to safely move the materials.” But who ever said jihadis are concerned with safety? If anything the volatility of this material—most of which is currently sealed away in bunkers—surely should only add to our concerns.”

 

So, in conclusion, it’s probably highly unlikely that when John Banner appeared in Hogan’s Heroes from 1965–1971, as the bungling guard in a stalag during Word War ll, he’d ever imagine that his words would be used by a future POTUS in 2014 as a mantra and catchphrase: "I know nothing! I see nothing! I hear nothing!" Yet, that’s exactly what happened.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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