On ISIS, Barack Obama Is Baghdad Bob

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Al Qaeda is "on the run." ISIS is "contained." The unraveling of Barack Obama's national security policy has turned the 44th president into Baghdad Bob.

By Sean Davis DECEMBER 4, 2015

In the throes of a tight re-election campaign in October of 2012, President Barack Obama declared that al Qaeda was “on the run.” In one sense, he was right: al Qaeda was running into the arms of ISIS, which was running wild in the Middle East. But his intended implication–that his policies had routed the terrorists, rendered them incapable of hurting Americans, and as a result made America safer from the threat of terrorist attack–was demonstrably false.

 

In an interview with ABC News the day before deadly terrorist attacks in Paris which killed 130 people and injured scores more, Obama famous declared that ISIS had been “contained” due to his administration’s policies.