When Obama Apologizes for the CIA’s Underestimation of IS

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2014/10/06/when-obama-apologizes-for-the-cias-underestimation-of-is/

When Obama Apologizes for the CIA’s Underestimation of IS
Published in Al Ghad (Jordan) on 2 October 2014 by Majid Tawbeh [link to original]
Translated from Arabic by Hend Al-Rijab. Edited by Gillian Palmer.
Posted on October 6, 2014.

Just like a husband who has been betrayed, President Barack Obama has finally announced that the CIA underestimated the threat posed by the Islamic State in Syria. Obama's speech came the day after the launching of the international coalition strikes on Islamic State sites in Syria a few days ago, to justify the war to the American public opinion. It also comes more than three years after the start of the Syrian crisis that changed the face of the region!

What appears from Obama's statement is a kind of underestimating the capabilities of the CIA. In a serious crisis like Syria’s, which took broad and complex international and regional dimensions, its developments have dug deep in the face of the Middle East. We do not expect that Obama can believe himself when offering such an excuse and justification for the Islamic State growing, nor the complexity of the region's crises and catastrophes that were caused by American politics.

Obama will not be held accountable, nor his Great States. Today, he argues that the security and political situation in Syria, Iraq and the Middle East came from the underestimation of his CIA — which has a budget that exceeds the budget of some countries, and has a huge and complex network with other countries’ intelligence networks. It can eavesdrop on most of the world's population! Even we, the distressed in this East, will not ask him, and we are not interested in holding him accountable for the miscalculation on his intelligence. But we are whispering in his ear today not to come back after two years, with the approaching of the end of his second term, to apologize again for the underestimation of others.

This story of the Islamic State and the growth of extremism in our country and our region was not caused by CIA underestimation; it is a result of stupid, criminal and greedy political, security and military gambling by America's politicians, when they engaged with the clashes in the region and its issues.

[KoKo]

1. Some of us (myself included) think he was CAPTURED...from Nomination

forward to Election...and are thinking it's time to "Move On."

But......WHAT to "Move On TO" is what we don't know.

We are left to mucking through the weeds to figure out what happened to us.....how we were deceived after Bush II and what went on during those years.

It's painful...but, I believe some good, constructive actions will come out of what we've been through after being so brutally betrayed. I don't put it all on Obama. I put it on our Dem Party which needs reform from Ground Up so that we aren't used as Tools for some agenda we didn't know about ....that we thought was Republican...but, turned out to be the TWO PARTY System.

It's going to take awhile to sort this all out. Decade or more....sadly. But, it's worth it to start NOW with the new info we have about how American Politics is "One System/Global" and it has little to do with the Voters or The People...who somehow thought that THEY were driving the Agenda...when in fact it hasn't been in the VOTERS hands for Their VOTE Countingf since the Supreme Court gave the Election of 2000 to Bush II. Probably it started a Decade or more Before.....but "Gore vs. Florida" was the Wake Up Call. We worked hard on that. It's obvious we coasted through Obama (thinking he was the BIG CHANGE you could Believe In) and now we know that we need to WORK HARDER....!

Whatever.....