Hillary Clinton and Congressmen alike have called on Obama to arm Syria’s rebels. But the President fumed at lawmakers in a private meeting for suggesting he should’ve done more.
President Obama got angry at lawmakers who suggested in a private meeting that he should have armed the Syrian rebels, calling the criticism a word that we cannot publish here on Matzav.com.
The argument that America should have done more in Syria, made for years by foreign policy leaders in both parties and several members of Obama’s senior national security team, was brought back to the fore this past weekend. Obama and Hillary Clinton gave dueling interviews in which they publicly split on whether the security and humanitarian catastrophe in Syria could have been avoided if the United States had played a larger role. Obama’s outburst on July 31, one week prior, reveals the criticism was already getting to him, even before the White House tried to deflect Clinton’s remarks as pre-presidential political posturing.
Just before the Congressional recess, President Obama invited over a dozen Senate and House leaders from both parties to the White House to talk about foreign policy. According to two lawmakers inside the meeting, Obama became visibly agitated when confronted by bipartisan criticism of the White House’s policy of slow-rolling moderate Syrian rebels’ repeated requests for arms to fight the Assad regime and ISIS.
According to one of the lawmakers, Sen. Bob Corker asked the President a long question that included sharp criticisms of President Obama’s handling of a number of foreign policy issues-including Syria, ISIS, Russia, and Ukraine. Obama answered Corker at length. Then, the president defended his administration’s actions on Syria, saying that the notion that many have put forth regarding arming the rebels earlier would have led to better outcomes in Syria was [expletive].
White House officials confirmed the charged exchange between Obama and Corker but declined to confirm that Obama used the expletive. The interaction between Obama and Corker was a tense moment in the otherwise uneventful meeting.
Corker’s office declined to comment for this story. But days after the White House meeting, he wrote a blistering op-ed for the Washington Post criticizing Obama’s handling of foreign policy. “Today, after three years of bold rhetoric divorced from reality, 170,000 Syrians are dead, and we are not innocent bystanders. The president encouraged the opposition to swallow deadly risks, then left them mostly hanging,” the senator wrote. “Extremist groups from Syria have surged into Iraq, seizing key territory and resources, and are threatening to completely undo the progress of years of U.S. sacrifice.”
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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It’s Bush’s fault! LoL!
As for the the word, he knows what he’s full of!
How does this help or hurt the shidduch crisis?
Big shpritz
Boruch dayan emes
What is this leader of the free world thiniking?
I like horses a lot
what more do you expect
foul mouth in th white house
Obama is going down the tubes
what a dopey prez
I’m not sure why you say matzav can’t publish “the word”
shows what this guy is all about
It;s time to throw this guy out of the Wahite house on Penn Ave
#13
You can’t throw him out of the Whitehouse. It’s public housing. And he gets three extentions. That means he stays for another three years
Everyone knows Obama is a secret Arab
In a recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, Benjamin Netanyahu agreed that Obama “got it right on Syria”.
The Obamahaters would be blasting Obama for arming the rebels had he done so, as some of the munitions would have ended up in the hands of ISIS. While hindsight is 20/20 it is important to remember that some of the Obamahaters were actually urging him to help the Assad regime!
Nivul Peh is a core item on this menuval’s resume.