2014.01.05

Belmont Club » A Run of Bad Luck

The administration’s Foreign Policy has been going badly for some time. Al-Qaeda has been retaking Western Iraq.  The Coalition anticipates losing much if not most of the territory it gained from the Taliban the minute it leaves Afghanistan.  President Obama’s “war of necessity” in Afghanistan is now officially more unpopular than Iraq at its most unpopular. Heck it’s more unpopular than Vietnam. US intelligence estimates the whole thing will collapse when the coalition pulls out.

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