Ed Morrissey:
Were you there for the Battle of Hashtag Hill? Nancy Pelosi attempts to make the case that the US strategy against ISIS is working somewhere in this exchange with newly minted MSNBC host Patrick Murphy, a former House colleague of Pelosi’s from Florida. The range of choices for examples of victory must be very, very narrow for Pelosi to claim victory — if indeed that’s what she’s doing at all:
Were you there for the Battle of Hashtag Hill? Nancy Pelosi attempts to make the case that the US strategy against ISIS is working somewhere in this exchange with newly minted MSNBC host Patrick Murphy, a former House colleague of Pelosi’s from Florida. The range of choices for examples of victory must be very, very narrow for Pelosi to claim victory — if indeed that’s what she’s doing at all:
FMR. REP. PATRICK MURPHY, MSNBC HOST: This past week, though, when it comes to ISIS, the mixed result — unfortunately, Ramadi was taken over by ISIS. The same time, the army’s delta force captured the money man for ISIS in Syria. so obviously mixed results. So you think the strategy’s working? What else needs to be done?
REP. NANCY PELOSI: It’s an enormous challenge. And we have to fight it on every front, including the front of social media. That’s a place where they have really made more advances than you would have suspected. And that is where we have to fight them, as well. This apprehension in Syria — well, killing of one and taking of his wife, as well as important intelligence information was a success. Again, we have to fight them on all fronts. Communication-wise as well as militarily.
RCP headlines this as Pelosi claiming that the US has made “advances” against ISIS on social media. On a second read, though, it looks more like she’s highlighting the advances made by ISIS, not the US. It’s the claim that “we have to fight them on all fronts” that’s the most laughable. We’re not fighting them on all fronts, or at least literally on any fronts. That would require putting US troops on the ground to eject ISIS from places like Ramadi, Mosul, the outskirts of Kirkuk, Nineveh Province, and the like, where US troops actually did fight on all fronts from 2003-8 and beat ISIS when it was called al-Qaeda in Iraq. One big reason Pelosi can’t make a coherent argument for success is because we’re not fighting on all fronts.
Moral equivalence much?
ISIS took a CITY.
Obama killed an ACCOUNTANT.
Anyone good with numbers can replace that accountant.
Ramadi is going to be retaken (if it is retaken) only at the cost of much blood and riches.
Can no one on the left recognize that Pelosi is certifiably insane? I can only assume not, because they also sold gaff-meister Biden as a wise elder who could advise Obama on the subject of foreign policy.