Time reports on statements made by President Obama during an interview:
When asked about comments by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has said the U.S. overestimated the ability and will of the Iraqi military to fight the extremist group, Obama said, “That’s true,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s absolutely true.”
Obama had already admitted that the rise of ISIS took the U.S. by surprise. “I think that there is no doubt that their advance, their movement over the last several months has been more rapid than the intelligence estimates and I think the expectations of policymakers both in and outside of Iraq,”
Statement by the President on Iraq: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/09/statement-president-iraq
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday September 29 2014, @08:14PM
But it does pose a meaningful threat to several oil pipelines owned by major US oil companies. That's why the US government cares, at all, about ISIS.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday September 29 2014, @09:39PM
Can you name even ONE oil pipeline in the area owned by US Oil Companies?
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(Score: 2) by bziman on Tuesday September 30 2014, @01:31AM
Yeah, I can't really believe it's about oil anymore... twenty years ago, I believed (probably incorrectly) that it was about oil. Today, the reality is that the United States produces more oil than it imports, and of what is imported, the largest source is Canada.
Out involvement in the middle east is nothing more than war profiteering.