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Being ignored by the so-called "mainstream media" today is the fact that the Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Baiji -- the latter a key center of oil production for the coalition government -- are about to fall to ISIS. The "MSM" -- that is, the liberal quacks other than Fox News, The Washington Times, National Review and other centerist news outlets -- are taking their queues from Gen. Martin Dempsey, who said yesterday that Ramadi falling to ISIS would be "no big deal."
Y'all remember Ramadi, right? The capitol of Anbar Province was the scene of a bloody pitched battle that killed 75 U.S. soldiers, Marines and SEALS, as well as hundreds of Iraqi security force fighters. It is this city Dempsey so easily tosses aside while complaining Iraqi officials aren't nearly so concerned about Baiji.
Problem: The "Caspar Milquetoast" head of the Joint Chiefs isn't so concerned about the imminent fall of Baiji he's willing to do anything about it other than hand-wring and whine about the Iraqi government's insistence that Ramadi is far more important as part of a defensive ring Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi wants built up to defend the capitol city, Baghdad. Dempsey's reality is a fantasy world in which he believes -- or claims to -- that the Iraqi and Syrian governments are capable of defeating ISIS with minimal U.S. intervention.
This is just one more indicator in my mind that the Obama administration -- and more specifically Obama himself -- is dedicated to the rise of radical anti-American Islamic power in the Mideast while providing pseudo-support for moderates like al-Abadi, Jordanian King Abudullah II, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and others that they have no intention of actually supporting when push comes to shove.
The American people need to begin asking themselves who the guy in the White House really is.
Y'all remember Ramadi, right? The capitol of Anbar Province was the scene of a bloody pitched battle that killed 75 U.S. soldiers, Marines and SEALS, as well as hundreds of Iraqi security force fighters. It is this city Dempsey so easily tosses aside while complaining Iraqi officials aren't nearly so concerned about Baiji.
Problem: The "Caspar Milquetoast" head of the Joint Chiefs isn't so concerned about the imminent fall of Baiji he's willing to do anything about it other than hand-wring and whine about the Iraqi government's insistence that Ramadi is far more important as part of a defensive ring Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi wants built up to defend the capitol city, Baghdad. Dempsey's reality is a fantasy world in which he believes -- or claims to -- that the Iraqi and Syrian governments are capable of defeating ISIS with minimal U.S. intervention.
This is just one more indicator in my mind that the Obama administration -- and more specifically Obama himself -- is dedicated to the rise of radical anti-American Islamic power in the Mideast while providing pseudo-support for moderates like al-Abadi, Jordanian King Abudullah II, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and others that they have no intention of actually supporting when push comes to shove.
The American people need to begin asking themselves who the guy in the White House really is.
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