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Over at CNN, the comments are interesting. Usually, any given day is either “Obama is a tyrant who secretly pulls the strings on all worldwide events” day or “Obama is inept” day.
Today, however, is apparently special, as he’s somehow managing to be both at once. He’s a tyrant in that he’s being accused of creating this situation in Iraq, but he’s inept in that he either isn’t capable of doing anything about it or that he should have done something about it ages ago and didn’t.
The disconnect on the Right amuses. The rest is tragedy.
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A number of people including myself who regularly post here have been complaining that we don’t get hard news at TPM but instead get Coulter, McDaniel, et al. and sadly hard news is here. It could have been predicted that no matter what the president does in response to an incipient genocidal humanitarian crisis in a country we had no reason to invade would draw criticism from the right, those people were so eager to make war there. The right wants Central American migrant children to die and they want more Iraqis to die.
40,000 members of religious minorities in Iraq, who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop where they took shelter after death threats from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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It’s rare that you have such unambiguously bad people as ISIS. I’m certainly fine with the U.S. bombing them as long as it means no engagement with our ground troops and no re-occupation. However, the Iraqis need to get their shit together politically, which does appear to be slowly happening believe it or not with the election of a new Parliament speaker.
“Iraq’s future will be in the hands of its people. America’s war in Iraq will be over. Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We’re building a new partnership between our nations.”