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Obama Says US Not Losing Against Daesh
 [Tolo News] US President Barack ObamaThey get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... has described the loss of key Iraqi territory to Daesh as a tactical setback, while insisting the war against the jihadist group is not being lost. "I don't think we're losing," Obama said in an interview with news magazine The Atlantic published Thursday, days after the Iraqi city of Ramadi was overrun. "There's no doubt there was a tactical setback, although Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time," he said. Since August 2014, on Obama's orders, a US-led coalition has hit more than 6,000 targets in Iraq and Syria with ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. Obama has refused to return US combat troops to Iraq, following a long brutal war after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. But the rout in Ramadi has called into question US strategy and the credibility of Iraq's central government. Obama blamed it on a lack of training and reinforcement of Iraq's own security forces. "They have been there essentially for a year without sufficient reinforcements," he said. "But it is indicative that the training of Iraqi security forces, the fortifications, the command-and-control systems are not happening fast enough in Anbar, in the Sunni parts of the country." Posted by: Fred 2015-05-23 |
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