obama orlando

Even before stepping foot in the Oval Office, Obama fretted about his ‘legacy.’

And he let everyone know he was reading noted historian (and water-carrying Obama sycophant) Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, a study of Lincoln’s managerial style.

Well, fret no more, Barack Hussein Obama, you finally have your real legacy: Orlando

Via WSJ.

In the spring of 2013 Barack Obama delivered the defining speech of his presidency on the subject of terrorism. Its premise was wrong, as was its thesis, as were its predictions and recommendations. We are now paying the price for this cascade of folly.

“Today, Osama bin Laden is dead, and so are most of his top lieutenants,” the president boasted at the National Defense University, in Washington, D.C. “There have been no large-scale attacks on the United States, and our homeland is more secure.” The “future of terrorism,” he explained, consisted of “less capable” al Qaeda affiliates, “localized threats” against Westerners in faraway places such as Algeria, and homegrown killers like the Boston Marathon bombers.

All of this suggested that it was time to call it quits on what Mr. Obama derided as “a boundless ‘global war on terror.’ ” That meant sharply curtailing drone strikes, completing the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, and closing Guantanamo prison. It meant renewing efforts “to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians” and seeking “transitions to democracy” in Libya and Egypt. And it meant working with Congress to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against al Qaeda.

“This war, like all wars, must end,” he said. “That’s what history advises. That’s what our democracy demands.”

King Canute of legend stood on an English shoreline and ordered the tide to recede. President Canute stood before a Beltway audience and ordered the war to end. Neither tide nor war obeyed….

Apologists for Mr. Obama will rejoin that it’s unfair to blame him for trends in terrorism, an argument that would have more credibility if he hadn’t been so eager to take credit for those trends only three years ago. The same apologists also claim that the U.S. cannot possibly cure what ails the Middle East, and that no law-enforcement agency can stop a lone-wolf terrorist such as Omar Mateen.

But these arguments fail. The rise of ISIS was a predictable result of Mr. Obama’s abdication in Iraq and especially Syria—a result Mr. Obama himself foresaw in his 2013 speech. “We must strengthen the opposition in Syria, while isolating extremist elements,” he said, “because the end of a tyrant must not give way to the tyranny of terrorism.” Was the opposition strengthened? Were the extremists isolated?

….It would require more humility than Mr. Obama is capable of mustering to admit that what happened in Orlando is also a consequence of his decisions—of allowing Iraq and Syria to descend to chaos; of pretending that we could call off the war on terror because fighting it didn’t fit a political narrative; of failing to defeat ISIS swiftly and utterly; of refusing to recognize the religious roots of terror; of treating the massacre in San Bernardino as an opportunity to lecture Americans about Islamophobia, and Orlando as another argument for gun control….

Related:

CNBC: Obama says there is no clear evidence Orlando killer was directed by extremists

Breitbart: White House Blames Republican ‘Underfunding’ For Orlando Terrorist Attack

The Hill: Obama: ‘There’s no magic to the phrase radical Islam’
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  1. “This war, like all wars, must end,” he said. “That’s what history advises. That’s what our democracy demands.”

    Such arrogance to imagine that the outcome of a fight is determined by who quits first. In war it is the aggressor who sets the terms of engagement. And the defender must employ weapons and strategy accordingly. The winner is the one who is still standing in the end.

  2. Dave says:

    A piss poor excuse for a man and a piss poor Prezy.

  3. Maynard says:

    Politicians never admit having been wrong; in fact, the more obvious it is that they were dead wrong, the more they redouble their efforts, no matter how misguided and destructive. This is why ordinary decent people find so many politicians so contemptible.

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