Barack Obama 2013 “al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated”

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Tony Heller

As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama’s past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. “If a J.V. team puts on Lakers’ uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant” (January 2014). “[C]ore al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated” (August 2013). “So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding” (September 2011).

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9 Responses to Barack Obama 2013 “al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated”

  1. EW3 says:
    June 18, 2014 at 1:07 am

    Almost everything President Zero says, the opposite happens.

    Focus on jobs like a LASER ? play golf
    Get to the bottom of the IRS scandal ? play golf
    Get the bad guys in Benghazi ? play golf

    the list is getting mighty long.

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  2. gregole says:
    June 18, 2014 at 1:24 am

    Here’s an interesting take:
    http://american.com/archive/2014/may/al-qaeda-isnt-on-its-heels
    From the analysis:
    “Furthermore, Al Qaeda has shown a remarkable ability to regenerate itself and survive shocks caused by the deaths of senior leaders in drone attacks. New leaders have continually come forward to take the place of those slain, and it is clear now that al Qaeda maintains a far deeper reserve of seasoned members able to take on senior roles than was previously appreciated. The relative ease with which it has been able to successively fill its “number three” position with experienced, pedigreed operatives is an example of this; at least five or six men described as occupying that position were reported as killed or captured through 2010. The position’s volatility says as much about the al Qaeda leadership’s ability to absorb system shocks as it does about the U.S. counterterrorism effort. We keep killing their leaders and they keep replacing them.

    And more:
    “Aside from al Qaeda’s own network, its key affiliates such as the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) and the Haqqani Network, in whose midst it lives and on whose support it relies, have remained largely unchecked. The claim that al Qaeda appears to be struggling to survive has previously been based on a level of activity against the network that is no longer being maintained. U.S. intelligence reports continue to warn of al Qaeda operatives inside Pakistan planning plots against the United States, and the organization’s leader, Ayman al Zawahiri, appears to be coordinating the activities of al Qaeda’s international network with an unprecedented degree of centrality from within Pakistan.”

    And so forth.

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  3. Gamecock says:
    June 18, 2014 at 2:01 am

    The memory of helicopters taking off from the roof of our embassy in Baghdad with desperate Iraqis clinging to the skids of the helicopter . . . . wait . . . I must have dozed off and was dreaming.

    “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana

    http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/helicopters-on-roof-iraq.html

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  4. John B., M.D. says:
    June 18, 2014 at 2:55 am

    “Decimated” = killed one in 10. Sounds about right.

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  5. philjourdan says:
    June 18, 2014 at 11:15 am

    Guess they are using Iraq for their coffin.

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