Kerry: 'We Don’t Do Foreign Policy By Polls' ... "Rosen responded, "It sounds like you like the polls you like and you don’t like the polls you don’t like."
" 'No, I just don’t pay attention to polls. If I paid attention to polls, I would have quit in Iowa a long time ago. I don’t pay attention to polls," said Kerry, an apparent reference to his failed presidential bid in 2004."
The strategy of the jihadist and their allies in Iraq was evident long before their blitz started rolling toward Baghdad. But neither Maliki nor Obama wanted to listen.
... 'Washington didn’t respond—a claim that will fuel Republican charges that the Obama administration has been dangerously disengaged from the Middle East. Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki dismissed the warnings, saying everything was under control."
Liz Cheney on how she and her father aim to shore up national defense "You have to look first at the fact that when we went into Iraq, very shortly thereafter Moammar Qaddafi turned over the Libyan nuclear program. Clearly, that was a result of Qaddafi’s thinking he might be next. It doesn’t take much imagination to see what the threat would have been to us if Libya had nuclear weapons.
“ 'We also were in a position at that point where our friends and allies could count on us, where they knew our word meant something.' ”Obama's Foreign Policy Explained "This clip explains, better than countless learned articles could, the essence of Obama's foreign policy. He's got a "four-stage strategy:' "
Jordanian air force bombs Al Qaeda-Iraq incursion. ISIS also stands at Saudi border. Kerry’s snags in Iraq [ISIS] "capture of the key town of Rutba Saturday is seen by Western military sources tracking the Iraqi conflict as marking out the Islamists’ next target. That force split in two – one heading southwest toward the Saudi Arabia border and the other heading west to Jordan."
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"Since Maliki is the object of Kerry’s maneuvers to replace him, he is not ready to offer the Kurds any concessions at this point. So Kerry’s Iraq mission has so far struck a high wall."
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