Obama may not be able to run out the clock and leave his mess to others

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CIA Director John Brennan admits that ISIS (Islamic State) was decimated under George W Bush, but grew into a monster under Barack Hussein Obama

. . . "Speaking at a Center for Strategic & International Studies forum Monday, Brennan called ISIS “an organization of murderous sociopaths” and said of the Paris attack, “I certainly would not consider it a one-off event. It is clear to me that ISIS has an external agenda and that they are determined to carry out these types of attacks.' ” . . .

This means that, by the CIA’s own estimate, ISIS has grown on Obama’s watch from just 700 fighters to between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters. That is an increase of between 2,700 and 4,400 %.

President Obama may not have the luxury of running out the clock    . . . "President Obama will not enjoy the last 15 months of his presidency, from the collapse of ObamaCare to shifting strategy to fight ISIS.T
"his is not what year 7 of the Obama presidency was to supposed to look like. Nevertheless, this is what the world looks like!" . . .

Obama Fiddled as Islamic State Grew  . . . "That growth didn’t happen without warning, either. Obama’s own Defense Intelligence Agency warned in 2012 that the group could “declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria.” Sounds like some key information, but running a re-election campaign in which Obama wanted to boast of having been the one to “decimate” al-Qaida (if you can’t blame Bush, at least steal his credit, right?), Obama ignored the report. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who ran the defense agency at the time, put it this way: “It was disregarded by the White House. … Frankly, at the White House, it didn’t meet the narrative.” Bingo."
Second-rate leaders chosen by second-rate voters.

U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes 

" ‘We can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us’ "

Hillary Suddenly Concerned About Defeating ISIS

"When asked about combating ISIS at the Democratic Party debate last Saturday, Hillary Clinton said “It cannot be an American fight.” She took some heat for saying that, even from the left.

"After what must have been a furious few days of focus groups and word testing, she presented a plan to defeat ISIS in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday." . . .

Widows and Orphans

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Sharyl Attkisson: Sources Say Obama Won't Listen to Intel About Islamic Terrorist Groups . . . "I have talked to people who have worked in the Obama administration who firmly believe he has made up his mind, I would say closed his mind, they say, to the intelligence they try to bring him about various groups he does not consider terrorists even if they're on the U.S. list of designated terrorists," Attkisson said. "I don't know the reasoning for it -- I’ve only been told by those who have allegedly attempted to present him, or been in the circle that has attempted to present him, with certain intelligence that they said he doesn’t want it, he said he doesn't want it or he won't read it in some instances."