/region/north_america/us-presidential-candidates-foreign-policy-bombshell-32157/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:04:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 /region/north_america/us-presidential-candidates-foreign-policy-bombshell-32157/#comment-35337 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:04:48 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=51166#comment-35337 Utter partisan gibberish. AQAP was completely routed by the end of ’07 and its resurgence under a new flag and name is owed entirely due to Obama’s pig-headedness in sticking to his always unworkable “withdrawal” from Iraq. Ditto for Afghanistan where almost unnoticed he has extended the stay of US troops to fight the “good” war. If you really want to do an analysis of the mess in the ME caused by the US (not the Imperial UK) you’d have to go back to ’53 and Iran. More recently, in the 90’s Clinton dawdled – his failure to strike when there was clear in intel in ’98 being one instance – while Al Qaeda grew dramatically leading up to 9/11.

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