While Obama Plays with Selfie Stick for BuzzFeed, ISIS Closes In on U.S. Marines in Iraq

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While Obama Plays with Selfie Stick for BuzzFeed, ISIS Closes In on U.S. Marines in Iraq

by
Stephen Kruiser

February 12, 2015 - 10:14 pm

Another Obama foreign policy success.

    Islamic State insurgents took control on Thursday of large parts of the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops, officials said.

    Al-Baghdadi, about 85 km (50 miles) northwest of Ramadi in Anbar province, has been besieged for months by the radical Sunni Islamist militants who captured vast swathes of northern and western Iraq last year.

    Militants attacked al-Baghdadi from two directions earlier in the day and then advanced on the town, intelligence sources and officials in the Jazeera and Badiya operations commands said.

    The officials said another group of insurgents then attacked the heavily-guarded Ain al-Asad air base five km southwest of the town, but were unable to break into it.

    About 320 U.S. Marines are training members of the Iraqi 7th Division at the base, which has been struck by mortar fire on at least one previous occasion since December.

Here’s a little perspective on just how quickly the world is spinning out of order.

Five years ago this month (maybe even this week), I was at al-Asad air base with four other comics doing a show. The place was still a war zone but the Americans and Iraqis were very much in charge. The show was packed, the troops were ready to go home and leave things in what seemed to be capable hands. Heck, the other comics and I hit the base store for souvenirs before we choppered out of there.

Now ISIS is trying to overrun some Americans there.

One can debate all that went wrong in Iraq in the last five years, but there has been one constant in this equation that entire time: the Americans have had the same commander in chief since 2010.

This guy:

[Scottftlc]

American Nero

[aligncare]

Obama pulled US troops out from areas now falling like dominos to ISIS. That was a stupid decision based solely on the politics of the moment. History will judge the man. And so will Saint Peter.

[Fishrrman]

Scott wrote above:
[[ American Nero ]]

You left out an important letter.

[alicewonders]

It is a frightening world with him as POTUS.  You know it's going to get worse before it will get better?  I can see his behavior becoming more cavalier, more in our face, more focused.  Truly frightening.

[flowers]

It is a frightening world with him as POTUS.  You know it's going to get worse before it will get better?  I can see his behavior becoming more cavalier, more in our face, more focused.  Truly frightening.

We will get hit by a major attack right around the time he leaves office, that way it will be blamed on the new admin.  The world will be on fire when he leaves.

[alicewonders]

We will get hit by a major attack right around the time he leaves office, that way it will be blamed on the new admin.  The world will be on fire when he leaves.

I fully agree.

[kevindavis007]

We will get hit by a major attack right around the time he leaves office, that way it will be blamed on the new admin.  The world will be on fire when he leaves.

I have a feeling we will be dealing with ISIS here in the states. No they won't fly overseas to come here. I'm concerned about the ISIS Sympathizers..

[mountaineer]

What a #*%&$!+ embarrasment.