OBAMA Fires Back At GOP Blaming HIM Rather Than Themselves For Instability In Iraq

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7. We need to get out — the Muslims have to fix it themselves

Our presence only inflames the situation. The Sunnis and the Shia have been at each other's throats since Muhammad died thousands of years ago in terms of who was to be his successor.

Who are we to back anyway, the Sunnis or the Shia? If we back either sect the other is your enemy. That's a no-win situation.

I say we need to let the Muslims have their religious civil war just as Christianity and Judaism have had their multiple and violent schisms throughout history.

We can at best be neutral 'honest brokers' in perhaps helping to negotiate peace/borders/disputes.

They have to fix it themselves.

IMO Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN NOT COMMITTING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TROOPS THERE.

Too some, not putting American lives at risk again in Iraq and Syria is somehow a failure.

Bush/Cheney/Bremer backed the Shia, got rid of the Ba'aths (Sunni), fired their military who reformed as ISIS when Maliki and the Shia shut them out of any role in postwar Iraq.

ISIS captured such huge swaths of land so quickly because their leaders are professional solders, the ex- generals and colonels of the fired Iraqi army.

Some successful policy Bush/Cheney had there. I don't blame Obama for not emulating it. We need to stay out but some are beating the war drums louder and louder and although he's resisting, we're slowly being drawn back into it.

Guess the warmongers won't be happy until more Americans are dying there.