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DemocratSinceBirth

(102,012 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 09:03 AM Sep 2014

Do you agree with President Obama that "we are the indispensable nation"? [View all]

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President Obama on Sunday evening said the United States “underestimated” the capability ISIS possessed to grow in Syria during the chaos of that nation’s bloody civil war.

In the CBS interview, the president, though admitting that his administration “overestimated” the Iraqi military’s capability to deal with the threat of ISIS inside its own borders, said ”America leads … we are the indispensable nation; when trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they don’t call Beijing, they don’t call Moscow, they call us.”


http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/obama-america-underestimated-isis-boehner-doubts-strategy
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