Hold on, Senator. We can help you sell it.West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday scathingly criticized a key element of the Obama administration’s strategy to confront the Islamic State, saying that history has shown that training local forces doesn’t work.
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I’m just saying our past performance for 13 years in that region hasn’t given us the results. We took out Saddam [Hussein]; we thought that would change; Iraq’s in worse shape. We take out [Moammar] Gadhafi; we thought that would change; things got so bad in Libya we had to pull out our own embassy and our people in the embassy.Dan Froomkin
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It makes no sense to me. And I can’t sell it. You can’t sell this stuff. And no one believes the outcome will be different.
Maybe we can keep in mind the term “video threat” …Islamic State militants have threatened to target the White House and kill US troops in a new slickly made video response to Barack Obama's campaign to "degrade and destroy" the organisation.
The video, in the style of a blockbuster movie trailer for what is "coming soon", depicts a masked man apparently about to shoot kneeling prisoners in the head. Towards the end of the clip there is shaky footage of the White House filmed from a moving vehicle, suggesting the building is being scoped out for attack.
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Despite its slick production, experts in film and advertising have suggested the video threat would not require huge expertise or budget.
Guardian
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 3/8: Joe must have been having a rare lucid moment. He's not so reasonable on guns. Or trade. Or drugs.
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