Obama’s Plan for ISIS: Leave It for the Next President

 Remember how Obama blamed his problems on President Bush? Just watch him telling the press how the next administration is wrecking the stable world Obama has created.

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"As a direct result of Obama’s amateurish, quasi-idealistic, and completely ideological failings in Iraq, we will almost certainly end up sending ground troops back in order to undo the damage wrought by the failed Obama doctrine.

"Obama knows this, of course, and his plan is to run out the clock rather than make the decision that needs to be—and will be—made by the next president. The National Journal reports:

On using U.S. combat troops? In a detailed interview with The Atlantic, Obama made his view clear. “If they are not willing to fight for the security of their country, we cannot do that for them,” he said, but added that he’s committed to training Iraqis over a “multi-year” period.

How many, exactly, is “multi?” State Department official and ISIS expert Brett McGurk laid that out on NPR: “It’s a three-year campaign to degrade the organization.”

Three years marked from mid-2014, of course, falls after Jan. 20, 2017, the date Obama leaves office.

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