![]() And ISIS has its own country-comprising a third of Iraq and a third of Syria. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda has affiliates all over South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. “Bin Laden is dead.” “Al-Qaeda is on the run.” “ISIS is the JV team.” Only the first claim is true-and by the time Seal Team 6 took out Osama bin Laden, he was semi-retired. Four years after the death of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is a hell-hole, stuck in a cycle of internecine violence.īarack Obama ended the war on terrorism. ![]() Whatever you call it, his strategy didn’t work. Even the president regrets this characterization of his war-fighting strategy for Libya. This is not what peace looks like.īarack Obama led from behind. ![]() CENTCOM, the Pentagon, the Afghans, Pakistan, India, and our NATO allies all think the troops need to stay. troops are still there, fighting and dying. Today, American military assistance is flowing into-not out of-Iraq.Īs for Afghanistan, U.S. Battle continues to rage in Iraq, and the country is in far, far worse shape militarily (and by most any other measure) than when Obama entered the Oval Office. troops from Iraq and the drawdown of American forces in Afghanistan. This claim rests on the withdrawal of U.S. Quite the contrary.Įven by the résumé written by the Oval Office, the president’s accomplishments in this field look pretty meager.īarack Obama ended two wars. But there are no criteria for measuring presidential power that suggest he ranks as a talented commander-in-chief. Scribes can go back and forth on his merits and missteps in all of these areas. In assessing the president’s legacy, historians will have plenty of legitimate topics to tussle over: his power as a politician, his practice of statesmanship, his place as a moral and social leader. ![]() Let’s just say they’re not likely to award him a spot in the pantheon of military masterminds. When serious military historians ponder Barack Obama’s record as commander-in-chief, there’s little likelihood of heated debate. ![]()
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