Speaking of things that haven’t gone away just because we’re not looking at them, our bombing runs in Syria and Iraq may have slowed ISIS’s advance but they aren’t rolling it back. And we’re spending about a half billion a month doing it.
I wonder how long it will take before people figure out that you can’t coherently argue in favor of the Administration’s strategy in the Middle East and want to make dramatic cuts in defense spending at the same time? My guess is that, like the war they favor, it’s forever.
Speaking of things that haven’t gone away just because we’re not looking at them….
Isn’t this 6 year administration chalk-full of loose ends and unreconciled issues, tucked-away scandals, duplicitous policy explanations? Going way back to the F & F debacle, only after the election was there a big document drop that was requested years ago. The same for the ‘lost’ IRS emails that unexpectedly showed up after the election, or the recent post-mid-terms immigration edit, or, the election before that, the PPACA implementation, along with revelations of the inconsistencies, untruths hidden within the folds of it’s obtuse verbiage.
Consequently, the ISIS (ISIL) problem is but one of many unresolved, poorly conducted tasks, in the foreign affairs arena, hovering under the radar of public scrutiny, as people on the side quietly opine how there is relatively little headway being made in lieu of a vaguely-run WH strategy. Then we have the Iran deadline this Monday, which SOS Kerry is supposedly “desperate” to close with a deal in hand — one that many say is a “terrible” one — a deal, though, the Iranians fully realize the US wants and needs in order to notch some kind of foreign policy success. Who do you think has the upper hand in these negotiations? It’s certainly not the U.S.