Obama blames US intelligence for �underestimating� ISIS (No, seriously, he did.)

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#1 | Obama blames US intelligence for �underestimating� ISIS (No, seriously, he did.) datum

Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:27 pm

Obama blames US intelligence for �underestimating� ISIS

By Marisa Schultz September 28, 2014 | 1:29pm

WASHINGTON � President Obama blamed the intelligence community for not fully recognizing the both the threat of ISIS and Syria becoming a hotbed for jihadists.

�I think they underestimated � what had been taking place in Syria,� Obama said in an interview on CBS�s �60 Minutes� with Steve Kroft.

The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, acknowledged as much earlier this month saying �we underestimated ISIL [the Islamic State] and overestimated the fighting capability of the Iraqi army.�

The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, acknowledged as much earlier this month saying �we underestimated ISIL [the Islamic State] and overestimated the fighting capability of the Iraqi army.�

Read more: http://nypost.com/2014/09/28/obama-blame...stimating-isis/

The CBS Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/preview-president-obama-2/

�We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.� C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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#2 | RE: Obama blames US intelligence for �underestimating� ISIS (No, seriously, he did.) datum

Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:31 pm

Ummm....

At the core of Obama�s thinking is that American military involvement cannot be the primary instrument to achieve the new equilibrium that the region so desperately needs. And yet thoughts of a pacific equilibrium are far from anyone�s mind in the real, existing Middle East. In the 2012 campaign, Obama spoke not only of killing Osama bin Laden; he also said that Al Qaeda had been �decimated.� I pointed out that the flag of Al Qaeda is now flying in Falluja, in Iraq, and among various rebel factions in Syria; Al Qaeda has asserted a presence in parts of Africa, too.

�The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn�t make them Kobe Bryant,� Obama said, resorting to an uncharacteristically flip analogy. �I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.

Annals of the Presidency January 27, 2014 Issue

Going the Distance

On and off the road with Barack Obama.

By David Remnick - The New Yorker

�We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.� C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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#3 | RE: Obama blames US intelligence for �underestimating� ISIS (No, seriously, he did.) datum

Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:42 pm

Honestly, I think the world knows now that this bozo NEVER takes responsibility for his own failures.

This time he yanks James Clapper's name over and walks on him as a scapegoat for his own asinine response to the "JV Team" ISIS

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�You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.�
¯ Richard P. Feynman

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#4 | RE: Obama blames US intelligence for �underestimating� ISIS (No, seriously, he did.) datum

Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:21 pm

"President Obama blamed the intelligence community for not fully recognizing the both the threat of ISIS and Syria becoming a hotbed for jihadists."

And so now yet another group joins grandma under the bus.

If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic~~Jerry Coyne at NewRepublic.com

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