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Source: Associated Press
AP foreign, Wednesday January 15 2014
LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) Former Sen. Joe Lieberman told a House panel Wednesday that President Barack Obama has "no coherent" anti-terrorism strategy in embattled countries where al-Qaida is gaining new influence, and that's endangering the United States.
"I do not, today, see a credible or coherent U.S. strategy right now, for exactly those countries Syria, Iraq and Libya-that most threaten to emerge as al-Qaida's newest and most dangerous footholds," Connecticut's Lieberman, who retired from the Senate this year, told the Homeland Security Committee.
"If we don't do something more than we're doing now, they're going to tip over," Lieberman added of those countries. And if that happens, "we're going to get attacked again."
It was the latest criticism of the Obama administration's policy toward the Middle East, five years after the president pledged to remake the nation's relationship with the region and improve America's image in the Muslim world.
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Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Exactly when were the first attacks by Syria, Iraq, or Libya ?
I don't remember any of those 3 countries attacking the U.S.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It lessens the number of people who want to do us harm.
polichick
(37,152 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)is NOT involved in, will turn into terror attacks here. "Fight em over there, so we don't have to fight them here"--I thought that was pretty much dead, but Joementum is giving it mouth-to-mouth.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)However, Nader doesn't help, nor does Lieberman.
Either way, he is a has been that needs to go away.
jsr
(7,712 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Isn't he the guy that begged Al Gore to quit calling for a recount?
frylock
(34,825 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)The guy couldn't be more in thrall to AIPAC and the other pro-Israel lobbying groups if he tried. Thank god he's not in the Senate any more.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Though I have a strong suspicion that we have very different ideas of what a comprehensive coherent anti-terror strategy would look like. And it's something I don't see happening any time soon under any president, and would have to be a plan involving more than unilateral decisions by the U.S.
I'm guessing Lieberman' s strategy would involve more threats, military excursions, and very profitable arms deals.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . Jokementum must live in a strange world where people value his opinions.
Thanks for The Failure Fuhrer, piglet.