Comment: Watch as this warmonger tries to lamely pull a fast one and do exactly what we said he was gonna do only days after assuring everyone it was going to be a quick 'in and out, just a couple of airstrikes' deal.


Obama, lying
© Reuters / Jonathan ErnstO-Bomber: You know he is lying because his mouth is moving.
Publicly announcing that US intelligence agencies "underestimated" the presence and activity of Islamic State militants in Syria, US President Barack Obama in an interview with CBS called the country a "ground zero" for international jihadists.

"Over the past couple of years, during the chaos of the Syrian civil war, where essentially you have huge swaths of the country that are completely ungoverned, they were able to reconstitute themselves and take advantage of that chaos," Obama said in an interview made on Friday but aired on Sunday.


Comment: Maybe it's because the NSA (which seems to be all powerful) spends all its time spying on Americans instead of real terrorists. Does anyone actually buy that they didn't know? We have a word for that: Incompetence.


"And so this became ground zero for jihadists around the world," he added.

Obama echoed comments previously made by James Clapper, US director of national intelligence which acknowledge how IS in Syria had been underestimated.

At the same time, Obama admitted that the Iraqi army's capabilities in dealing with militant groups were also overestimated. Clapper made similar comments to a Washington Post columnist earlier this month.

"I didn't see the collapse of the Iraqi security force in the north coming," Clapper was quoted as saying. "I didn't see that. It boils down to predicting the will to fight, which is an imponderable."


Comment: BS. Pure and simple.


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Obama went on to describe his overall military strategy against IS.

"We just have to push them back, and shrink their space, and go after their command and control, and their capacity, and their weapons, and their fueling, and cut off their financing, and work to eliminate the flow of foreign fighters," he said.


Comment: We have to push them back. Genius. This guy is like Patton or something. Wait, we take that back, this guy is a moron who has 0 strategy besides lie his pants off.

Here's an alternate strategy: 1) Stop arming terrorists 2) Stop being an embarrassing shill 3) Stop trying to run the god-damned world 4) Fix your own country first


But US military officials admit that air attacks on IS strongholds are not achieving enough and a ground campaign is needed to crush the terrorists - with Kurdish forces in Iraq and the "moderate opposition" trained and equipped by the US in Syria.

"Yes, there has to be a ground component to the campaign against ISIL in Syria," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said last week, adding that earlier figures pertaining to a group of 5,000 prospective US-trained