Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
President Obama has admitted there were flaws in his plans to subdue the Islamic extremist group ISIS in Iraq.
The President insisted, however, that despite the flaws the U.S. is not losing in the battle against ISIS.
“I don’t think we’re losing,” Obama told The Atlantic in an interview days after the fall of Ramadi.
“There’s no doubt there was a tactical setback, although Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time, primarily because these are not Iraqi security forces that we have trained or reinforced.They have been there essentially for a year without sufficient reinforcements, and the number of ISIL [ISIS] that have come into the city now are relatively small compared to what happened in [the Iraqi city of] Mosul.”
Members of Congress have been critical of the President and his plans for not using ground troops in Iraq to stop the terrorists.
Senator John McCain of Arizona said the fall of Ramadi to the terrorists was “one of the most disgraceful episodes in American history.”
