MIDEAST HORROR – AT 8:07 A.M. ET:  The Mideast is in flames, and the latest torch is being lit in Iraq, place of American sacrifice and heroism.  Absurd claims by Field Marshal Obama that he has "ended" wars are being increasingly laughed at.  Even the liberal Washington Post comes down hard on our make-believe president:

FOR YEARS, President Obama has been claiming credit for “ending wars,” when, in fact, he was pulling the United States out of wars that were far from over. Now the pretense is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.

On Monday, a loathsome offshoot of al-Qaeda, the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, captured Mosul, one of Iraq’s most important cities, seizing large caches of modern weaponry and sending half a million civilians fleeing in terror. ISIS, which can make the original al-Qaeda look moderate, controls large swaths of territory stretching from northern Syria into Iraq. On Tuesday, militants advanced toward Baghdad, capturing Tikrit and other cities.

If Iraq joins Syria in full-fledged civil war, the danger to U.S. allies in Israel, Turkey, Jordan and the Kurdish region of Iraq is immense. These terrorist safe havens also pose a direct threat to the United States, according to U.S. officials. “We know individuals from the U.S., Canada and Europe are traveling to Syria to fight in the conflict,” Jeh Johnson, secretary of homeland security, said earlier this year. “At the same time, extremists are actively trying to recruit Westerners, indoctrinate them, and see them return to their home countries with an extremist mission.”

When Mr. Obama defended his foreign policy in a speech at West Point two weeks ago, he triggered some interesting debate about the relative merits of engagement and restraint. But the question of whether Mr. Obama more closely resembles Dwight D. Eisenhower or Jimmy Carter is less relevant than the results of his policy, which are increasingly worrisome.

COMMENT:  Obama is Carter.  He is no Eisenhower.  Eisenhower threatened to use the atomic bomb to end the Korean War.  Out of office, he fully supported our engagement in Vietnam.

Obama really doesn't seem to care.  I think he's shown an embarrassing warmth toward radical Islam,  which meshes well with his contempt for American society.

We are losing, but to Obama, that's what's been needed all along.  He is who he is, but we weren't permitted to ask much about that when he ran in 2008.

June 12,  2014