Tuesday, September 16, 2014

It is simply Obama's fault.

Today, NC Senator Richard Burr, a staunch Republican conservative, blamed Pres. Obama for the ISIS uprising in Iraq/Syria.  Now, I am not a Democrat (I'm a firm Independent), nor am I an Obama apologist.  He has done plenty wrong.  However, how is it his fault that this group of radical Islamist terrorists, bent on destruction in an area where religious and ethnic fighting has been going on for thousands of years, succeeded in establishing a stronghold?

Everyone wanted our troops out of Iraq.  Let the Iraqis handle their own country, we said.  Obama brought the troops home as requested.  So, without our troops there, how is it his fault that the Iraq army could not contain and defeat the ISIS?

Burr is perpetuating the problem of extreme partisanship which has ruined our government.  Our politicians (on both sides!) are good at blaming, but never seem to say what they would have done differently.  Mr. Burr is no different.  It's just Obama's fault, but Mr. Burr has no better ideas of his own.  It takes no guts at all to blame someone else.  It takes courage to offer your own ideas and suggest a better way to solve a problem.  Obviously, Mr. Burr has no guts.

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