In June of this year, President Barack Obama lost his best foreign-policy talking point, a blow that — for a politician — can be worse than losing your best friend. When the Islamic State took over Mosul and threatened to march on Baghdad, Obama’s feat of having ended the Iraq War was summarily undone. Only weeks before, Obama had declared that “after nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over” and that “change is turning the page on a decade of war so we can do some nation building here at home.” Now, new facts on the ground — …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
