When President Obama
addresses the nation on Wednesday to explain his plan to defeat Islamic
extremists in Iraq and Syria, it is a fair bet he will not call them
the “JV team.”
Nor does he seem likely to describe Iraq
as “sovereign, stable and self-reliant” with a “representative
government.” And presumably he will not assert after more than a decade
of conflict that “the tide of war is receding.”
As
he seeks to rally Americans behind a new military campaign in the
Middle East, Mr. Obama finds his own past statements coming back to
haunt him. Time and again, he has expressed assessments of the world
that in the harsh glare of hindsight look out of kilter with the changed
reality he now confronts.
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