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Ask a Liberal: Who Lost Iraq? | The American Spectator

By Jeffrey Lord – 9.18.14

It's the new ‘Who Lost China?’

Who lost Iraq? In so many words, that is now the increasingly potent counter to years of liberal charges that America’s problems in the world can be traced to the Bush-Cheney foreign policy — specifically the invasion of 2003. The question has now taken root, with “Iraq” serving as shorthand for everything from Iraq itself to ISIS, the Syrian mess, Benghazi, and more. Graphically illustrated by the beheadings of two American journalists, a British aid worker, ISIS armies causing chaos in the once-stabilized region. Not to mention the murder of a 19-year old New Jersey college student Brendan Tevlin by a self-professed jihadist, the arrest of a Yemeni store owner in New York who sought to fund ISIS, and the news that the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan has written to the head of ISIS asking to join.

The idea that Iraq had been stabilized — and hence the world of Islam calmed — was re-enforced in 2011 by no less than President Obama himself, as reported byBreitbart:

In a speech at Ft. Bragg, NC on December 14, 2011, President Barack Obama said the United States was “leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.”

“Iraq’s future will be in the hands of its people. America’s war in Iraq will be over,” he remarked. And “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.”

Today, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer reported that Iraq is “falling apart.” The White House is currently debating dropping in aid or engaging in airstrikes against Iraq while stating “there could be a humanitarian catastrophe” inside Iraq.

The vividly gruesome nature of the videotaped beheadings in particular ignited an abrupt change in polling numbers, with over 70 percent of the American public demanding something be done about ISIS. It dawns that Islamic fascism is a centuries-old phenomenon that is now — once again — an active threat to Western civilization and America specifically. …

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