Prior to the November congressional elections there was a lot of negative news aimed at President Obama and his administration concening a lot of fabricated issues pushed by the news media, especially the conservative news media and republicans in congress. Most are just a faded memory now because they lacked substance.
The one that comes to mind now is the story that the POWERFUL ISIL was about to over run and take over the city of Kobani that sits on the Syrian and Turkish border. The importance of taking Kobani would have given the Islamic State control of a border crossing with Turkey. But U.S. and ally air strikes along with Kurdish ground forces routed and defeated ISIL last week and the ISIL forces have fled the area. ISIL leaders confirmed the defeat and said U.S. air power was the difference. The news media said Kobani would fall to ISIL back in September of last year.
This writer questioned in a commentary some time ago the strength of ISIL which was being flaunted by the news media. Now the media says very little about ISIL. "PolitiDose" had a commentary a few years ago also pointing out the U.S. had the Air capability to take care of problems in the middle east without committing American combat forces to fight a ground war over there.
President Obama's position that American air power along with Iraqi and other middle eastern ground troops would be able to accomplish the objective against ISIL and his policy position is working. ISIL's advances have been stopped in many areas and towns have been retaken by Iraqi and Kurdish forces. The President needs to stay on top of his policies and this writer has confidence he will do so because of his past performance.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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