Somewhere, George W. Bush is laughing…
Via Hot Air:
Looks like “they” at the Obama White House underestimated George W. Bush as a strategist, along with ISIS as a threat and Iraq as a “strong, stable ally.” They aren’t done with underestimating Bush, as White House national-security adviser Tony Blinken demonstrated in appearance yesterday on CNN’s State of the Union. After insisting that Barack Obama wasn’t walking into al-Qaeda’s trap by sending in an occupying force to fight ISIS, Crowley pointed out that Obama had adopted the Bush-era strategy of forward action against terrorism.
CANDY CROWLEY: And does it — moving to the region now and what’s going on there, airstrikes now along the Turkish/Syrian border, it does seem that, very often, when any kind of Western power, particularly in the Middle East, takes on some kind of military operation, that it creates enemies, as well as destroys other enemies.
And isn’t that what — what those bulletins are about, is, are we making things more dangerous on the streets by doing this or safer?
TONY BLINKEN: Candy, we have to get ahead of this problem.
ISIL presents an immediate threat to people in the region, including to Americans in the region. And it’s been very clear that, over time, if it’s left unchecked, it will present a threat here at home and to our partners in Europe. So we need to get ahead of it. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.