Obama on TV NOW being great!

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41. I think we have to look at this realisitically. It's not just framing.

I don't think that Obama or anyone else ever thought that Al-Queda in Iraq, which was formed in the wake of Bush's disastrous war in Iraq would morph into this sort of multi-headed monster. I also don't think that he or any of his advisors foresaw the abject collapse of the Iraqi army, the degree of secular and tribal division in the area and the lack of willingness and sometimes active collusion with Isis on the part of countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

That in my opinion is screwing up and he should own it and go forward aggressively but intelligently. If we go into a protective crouch, it will end very badly.

I say this because I fear that if he does not do something and do it soon, then the Republicans will win the White House. If you don't believe it look at the 2004 Presidential Campaign where Bush, the man who unleashed hell in the middle east was able to convince enough Americans that he, the draft dodger, the most inept commander in chief in our history was better able to protect this country than Kerry, the genuine war hero.

I wish that logic and rationality prevailed. I really do, but we live in a world where far to many people are easily frightened into doing something that is not in their best interest or the interests of the world.