The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria? You're brain dead!
They strengthened in Syria & then came into Iraq.
That is correct. Once they found that the red line Obama drew in Syria was a joke and there were no US support troops in Iraq, they decided to go for it.
The red line thast forced Assad to give up his chemical weapons? That red line, jackass?
The Russians forced Assad to give up his chemical weapons dipshit.
That would be false. Like everything else trumpsters say.
For the edification of the brain dead.
The Washington Times - Sunday, May 17, 2015
"President Obama’s infamous “red line” in
Syria seems to have been fully erased.
Amid recent reports Syrian President
Bashar Assad again used chemical weapons in his nation’s ongoing civil war, Mr. Obama is taking a much different approach than he did in 2012 and 2013, when the U.S. declared itself on the verge of military intervention after
Mr. Assad unleashed sarin gas and other chemical agents despite clear warnings from the White House.
The most explicit of those warnings came in the form of the president’s “red line” declaration, in which he said the use of chemical weapons was a step too far and would bring dire consequences for
Mr. Assad and his forces.
The incident was a pivotal foreign policy moment for Mr. Obama and served as a key test of whether he would back up his words with military action.
In the end, the U.S., with the help of Russia, secured an international agreement requiring Syria to give up much of its chemical weapons stockpile. The U.S. never mounted military strikes, and the administration claimed it had used diplomacy rather than force to achieve its objective.
But now it seems clear history is repeating itself, and
Mr. Assad again is relying on chemical weapons.
This time, Mr. Obama’s red line is nowhere to be found.
At a press conference last week, the president mentioned no possibility of military strikes and instead
said the U.S. expects allies of Mr. Assad, chiefly Russia, to intervene and convince the Syrian government to stop using chemical weapons.
“My commitment was to make sure that
Syria was not using chemical weapons and mobilizing the international community to assure that that would not happen. And, in fact, we positioned ourselves to be willing to take military action. The reason we did not was because
Assad gave up his chemical weapons. That’s not speculation on our part. That, in fact, has been confirmed by the organization internationally that is charged with eliminating chemical weapons,” Mr. Obama said last Thursday after a Camp David meeting with officials from the Arab monarchies in the Persian Gulf.
“If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will, once again, work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and
we will reach out to patrons of Assad, like Russia, to put a stop to it,” Mr. Obama declared."
