And If You Are Having Trouble Getting Worried About ISIS

The idea that US airstrikes would be enough to turn the tide against ISIS took a major blow today:

ISIS Moves Into Syrian Kurdish Enclave on Turkish Border

ISTANBUL — Islamic State militants pushed on Monday into the eastern edge of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on the Turkish border, after sustained shelling that drove back the Kurdish fighters and Syrian insurgents fighting alongside them, killing 16, Kurdish fighters and activists said.

The Kurdish militants have been hanging on as Islamic State militants have advanced with heavy weapons in a three-week assault. Kurdish women have joined the battle, and one, Kurdish and Syrian activists say, blew herself up with a grenade over the weekend rather than be captured.

...

Airstrikes by the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State took out two of the group’s positions south of Kobani on Monday, the American military said. But as Kurdish fighters pleaded for more support, the only other airstrikes on the militant group Monday were conducted elsewhere, in Raqqa and Deir al-Zour Provinces.

The Guardian has more on the inefficacy of airstrikes:

Syrian Kurds say air strikes against Isis are not working

Isis fighters have pushed to the edge of Kobani and evade western strikes, says spokesman for Kurdish fighters

 

US-led air strikes in northern Syria have failed to interrupt the advance of Islamic State (Isis) fighters closing in on a key city on the Turkish border, raising questions about the western strategy for defeating the jihadi movement.

 

Almost two weeks after the Pentagon extended its aerial campaign from Iraq to neighbouring Syria in an attempt to take on Isis militants in their desert strongholds, Kurdish fighters said the bombing campaign was having little impact in driving them back.

 

Meanwhile, back in Iraq the US has expanded the air mission to include "boots in the air":

 

‘Boots in the air’: US helicopters return to combat in Iraq for first time

 

IRBIL, Iraq — The United States sent helicopters into combat against Islamic State targets west of Baghdad on Sunday, the first time low-flying Army aircraft have been committed to fighting in an engagement that the Obama administration officials has promised would not include “boots on the ground.”

 

The U.S. Central Command, in a statement about U.S. activities against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, provided few specifics about the helicopters. They were probably AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, which were deployed to Baghdad International Airport in June to provide protection for U.S. military and diplomatic facilities.

 

Until Sunday, U.S. airstrikes in Iraq have been limited to fast-moving Air Force and Navy fighter aircraft and drones. But the use of the relatively slow-flying helicopters represents an escalation of American military involvement and is a sign that the security situation in Iraq’s Anbar province is deteriorating. Last week, the Islamic State militants overran numerous Iraqi bases and towns and were becoming a widespread presence in Abu Ghraib, the last major town outside of Baghdad’s western suburbs.

 

Jeffrey White, a former senior Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who closely follows developments in Iraq, said the use of helicopter gunships by the United States means that U.S. troops effectively are now directly involved in ground battles.

 

“It’s definitely boots in the air. This is combat, assuming U.S. Army guys were flying the helicopters,” said White, a defense fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a center-right policy institute. “Using helicopter gunships in combat operations means those forces are in combat.”

 

Surely it depends on what the meaning of "combat" is. And what the meaning of "boots" is. And, I suppose, what the meaning of "ISIS" is.

 

Politically I can't imagine Valerie Jarrett will allow Barack to freak out whatever is left of his base by reneging on his "no boots up their ass on the ground" pledge a month before the election. On the other hand, another month of reporting on setbacks and mini-escalations won't be helpful either. The suspense mounts!

Comments

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

First!

[MarkO]

I remain concerned about what the meaning of IS IS.

[Beasts of England]

Being first is so yesterday, Steph. ;)

[Jane]

Love it Marc. I plan to steal it too.

[NKrebooting]

Obummer could deploy an entire MEU, and all of its gear to downtown Baghdad and they would refuse to call it 'combat boots on the ground." It's Orwellian doublespeak 'all the way down' with this crew.

[narciso]

well we're no. 3:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/06/report-finds-isis-ammo-comes-from-us/

[GMax]

Two men were fatally shot by a customer after they attempted to rob a north Harris County bar early Saturday

Two more got away, but my guess is that wnen they positively ID the two dead perps, the lowlife that they used to hang around with will be rounded up too.

Carry a weapon, cuz a Cop wont fit in your pocket...

[Barry Dauphin]

And what will the administration do in the event of a Blackhawk Down scenario?

[narciso]

yep it's going great:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/10/lamer-than-expected.php

[daddy]

Drudge Headline: Scientists Grow Penises...

I'd prefer that they grow some balls.

(DrJ excepted of course:)

[Old Lurker]

FTR, Daddy, I beat you by 14 minutes with that on the other thread...

[daddy]

Dennis Miller has on Dr K as his guest.

Yippee!

And they are talking baseball. DrK sez that the National's coach pulling their pitcher Zimmerman the other night was the worst management decision since ignoring the warnings of IceBergs on the Titanic.

[Old Lurker]

But...but our top men already told us that we are (already) doing everything necessary so...huh?

The Hill: "The White House said Monday that officials are “assessing and reassessing” Ebola screening procedures as pressure grows on the administration to intensify safety measures after the first case of the deadly virus entering the U.S.

"The United States continues to be assessing and reassessing the procedures that are in place to safeguard the traveling public around the globe, but also the American public here at home," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

[daddy]

Ha! OL. Missed it. Somedays my catch-up is better than others:)

[DrJ]

OL,

But over there you didn't add the important disclaimer!

[lyle]

To bad it took 6 effing years for some kolledge kids to figure who the bum was they elected.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/10/06/obama-booed-during-psa-at-michigan-state-football-game/

[Ignatz]

--Love it Marc. I plan to steal it too.--

I said that a month or more ago but since there's no threat of ™ or ® there's no need for you to steal my version. :)

[Miss Marple]

OL.

What procedures in place? This morning I found out that we have no screening upon arrival, so any screening is done by the obviously ineffective Liberians.

The quarantine program seems to be a catch and release program similar to immigration.

The screening of patients at the hospital failed.

Bah. I am really coming to detest Dr.s Friedan and Fauci about as much as I do Obama.

[NKrebooting]

NYC is slightly less colorful today. Geoffrey Holder ends his 60+ year run in the City, RIP. married for 59 years to the same woman, who survives him. He was an extremely talented and a sweet man, no public scandal that I'm aware of. RIP:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/arts/geoffrey-holder-dancer-choreographer-and-man-of-flair-dies-at-84.html

[Danube on iPad]

His military advisers told him unanimously that leaving Iraq prematurely would be disastrous. He knew better.

His military advisers told him unanimously that these airstrikes would be ineffectual. He knew better.

[lyle]

A straight dance choreographer? In NYC??

[Captain Hate]

US-led air strikes in northern Syria have failed to interrupt the advance of Islamic State (Isis) fighters closing in on a key city on the Turkish border, raising questions about the western 404/DNC strategy for defeating the jihadi movement.

[James D.]

"The United States continues to be assessing and reassessing the procedures that are in place to safeguard the traveling public around the globe, but also the American public here at home," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

Is anyone surprised that Earnest puts the "traveling public around the globe" ahead of "the American public here at home" ?

Sometimes, however inadvertently, the truth does slip out...

[lyle]

Anyone believe this? Me, neither.

“But we will look at all opportunities to improve the safety of Americans. Because that’s what CDC does 24/7 is protect Americans. And one thing that’s encouraging is some signs of progress in the outbreak.

[Joe Biden]

the obviously ineffective Liberians

I dunno, my Liberian is pretty gosh darned effective, especially when she wears that short skirt and those naughty glasses.

[daddy]

Speaking of Catch-up, how come there is not a standard spelling of that wonderful Tomato based condiment?

Personally I blame Henry (and his Grandma)

[Captain Hate]

The NCAA has agreed to assist the White House through ”resources on NCAA.org; coverage of the campaign in its award-winning quarterly magazine, Champion; activities during the National Week of Action in November; and a half-day session on sexual assault and violence prevention at the Association’s annual convention in January.” The NCAA also agreed to show the PSAs at NCAA championship events and on social media.

Assisting in the scam. Kudos to the Michigan State students for their Bronx cheer.

[NKrebooting]

If you wanted to know why Ben Bernanke could re-fi his mortgage, it 's because these gov't regulators are on the case:http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-applauds-financial-chiefs-for-dodd-frank-implementation/article/2554441?custom_click=rss&utm_campaign=Weekly+Standard+Story+Box&utm_source=weeklystandard.com&utm_medium=referral#!

[lyle]

NO EVIDENCE, PEOPLE!

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday that there’s “no evidence” that ISIS or any other group inspired Alton Nolen to behead a co-wokerer at a food processing plant in Oklahoma last month.

Because shut up.

[Gus]

Can we call Odimbulb and his Marxist hacks, the FRESHMAN TEAM yet? Not ready for JAYVEE!! yet.

President of the Harvard Lie review and such.

[NKrebooting]

Geoffrey Holder was a fascinating and urbane man. His sexuality? who knows ... who cares.. he was smart, educated, decent and talented, and he used those talents in a way we should all attempt to emulate. I'll miss him.

[Rob Crawford]

They're going to intensify screening in Liberia by asking if you've been exposed twice.

If pressed, they may increase that to a third time, with a "are you telling the truth" added to the third.

[NKrebooting]

Excuse me... bernanke could NOT re-fi his mortgage.

[NKrebooting]

Afternoon Gus!

[Comanche Voter]

Amateur soldiers and armchair generals get amateur results. President Obama and Valerie Jarrett couldn't strategize a two car funeral in a small Texas town--even if they had Moochelle helping them.

But none so blind as those who will not see; and none of these cretins can acknowledge that they, in the words of Al Campanis, "lack the essentials to be President". Al was wrong--he was talking about whether black ballplayers could manage major league baseball clubs--see Dusty Baker as proving Campanis wrong. OTOH I don't think that our Lightworker, ValJar and Queen Moochelle have the combined essentials to equal the brains of a ham sandwich.

[lyle]

Quickly moving from Denial to Anger. Bargaining starts Nov. 5.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/democrat_meltdown_begins_as_loss_of_senate_looms_larger.html

[Rob Crawford]

Of course ISIS didn't inspire Jahkeem Yisrael. The Koran did.

[narciso]

well this is the whole point of the exercise,

http://therightscoop.com/turkey-dangles-ground-troops-in-syria-if-obama-will-go-also-after-assad/

note in that telegraph link, the moneyman is an employee of the Qatari fed,

[Dave (in MA)]

I use "ketchup" but usually buy the store brand so as not to help fund Clutch Cargo's lifestyle any more than I have to.

[Rob Crawford]

Where would I place in the raaaaacist race if I said we went from President Bush to President Bush-meat?

[Gus]

Hello NK. I'll miss Mr Holder too. SevemUp the UNCOLA.

[anonamom]

A shipping container with gloves and other medical supplies sits on the dock in Sierra Leone for TWO MONTHS, awaiting government permission to be unloaded!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/world/africa/sierra-leone-ebola-medical-supplies-delayed-docks.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

We are just one Democratic president away from such inanity here.

[Pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Not feeling as secure in your place of worship as you used to?

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/maryland-mosque-already-tax-exempt-now-getting-dhs-fema-taxpayer-grants-for-security/

Oh wait, it see it now, your place of worship probably doesn't qualify.

Another thought,
I see the President's message to the worship place of the beheaded was delivered in person by a flyer from the WH.

Every Memorial Day at the Service at our local US national cemetery, we hear a message from the US president --- it is always read by a local US employee. Never by a person flown in from the WH. How much did it cost to have a message reader flown from the WH?

[Gus]

Jeh thats, Jeh as in Heh heh, Johnson, NO EVIDENCE of ALLAHU AKBAR SCREAMING MUZZTARD influenced by his mentors.
In other news Jeh as in Heh Heh Johnson says there is no evidence that water is wet, and the POLAR BEARS are dying.

[Pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

In my 04:14 pm message ----beheaded should read beheader

[Jim Miller]

Here's an admittedly unfair comparison of the current anti-ISIS air attacks to what happened in World War II.

[NKrebooting]

He also stage directed and costumed 'The Wiz" on Broadway. The Wiz was a huge deal 40 years ago and rightfully so. In bringing the Wizard of Oz to Broadway with a black cast and Carib-Jazz, R&B vibes, Holder and his colleagues showed everyone AAs could promote wholesome family entertainment in their own way. It was a successful 'all-american' form of entertainment, using black cast and vibes. IMO it was the most important AA musical production since Porgy & Bess. Alas, men like Geoffrey Holder lost out to the racialist resentment industry types like Jackson and Sharpton and Eric Holder. We are all the poorer for it.

[Rob Crawford]

Please tell me Geoffrey Holder had nothing to do with the movie version of "The Wiz".

Please?

[Miss Marple]

http://www.thecable.ng/how-i-survived-ebola-2

First person account of a Nigerian doctor who survived Ebola. Please read this because it describes how she got it, how Patrick Sawyer LIED, how she was isolated, and her treatment.

Please notice that when she left the hospital she was allowed to take NOTHING out.

Contrast this with how the Dallas patient was treated and how CDC is not following the protocol of Nigeria!

[Gus]

He was a villain in LIVE and LET DIE. Great actor, and a good guy.
Try making THAT out of a cola nut!! MAHVELLOUS hahahahahahahahahaaa.

[Eric in Boise]

So per Lyle's 4:06, Democrats are blaming "overly centrist messaging" and "the media" for their problems?

*SNORT!*

[MarkO]

"I said that a month or more ago but since there's no threat of ™ or ® there's no need for you to steal my version. :)"

I plagiarize only the best.

[Rob Crawford]

The Democrats ALWAYS blame their "messaging". The only variation is how much they believe they should have lied,

[MarkO]

When one falls beneath contempt, where does one go?

[Dave (in MA)]

I remember the 7-Up guy from a Bond movie.

(No, not the 7-Up Yours guy.)

[derwill]

It's a long flight from Liberia to the US with at least one plane change, if not two, depending on one's ultimate destination. If there's no screening upon arrival here, then the CDC is completely discounting the possibility that an infected person could lie about his exposure, and yet not show any symptoms of fever etc before boarding, yet the symptoms could then present once the flight was in progress. He could be sweating up a storm by the time he lands at Kennedy, where he touches a baggage cart, touches his passport that he hands to the customs agent, touches the door handle to the taxi cab, and the money that he hands the cab driver, etc. etc.

Do they really know with any certainty at which point one becomes infectious? Is it perfectly safe to shake hands with an ebola victim thirty seconds before he exhibits signs of a fever. Two minutes before, an hour? Yet suddenly dangerous one second after his fever starts to rise? Would he be fever free one minute and then raging hot and sweaty the next, or does his temperature gradually rise? At what point in that continuum would he suddenly become contagious?

[MarkO]

Soaring, like the hawk:

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/10/06/obama-booed-during-psa-at-michigan-state-football-game/

[narciso]

no, he had nothing to do with the film version,

[GMax]

Always a proud Spartan but today I stand especially proud. The jeers started in the student section!

According to reports on Twitter and from several individuals who called into the Rush Limbaugh Show on Monday, President Obama was enthusiastically booed when he appeared in a public service announcement shown on the scoreboard video screen at Michigan State University during Saturday’s football game against Nebraska.

[narciso]

what happened to the rebels we've trained for two years now, rhetorical?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/06/pentagon-isis-syrian-rebel-offensive

[MarkO]

The rebels were moderate and chose not to fight. Mild rebels.

[NKrebooting]

never saw the movie version of The Wiz, was it that bad?

[Dave (in MA)]

It was a musical; that's enough to qualify as "bad" in my book.

[NKrebooting]

we've discussed on several occassions my affinity for Broadway musicals... not that there's anything wrong with that.

[NKrebooting]

I guess a '14 election repub senate is a lock. The Atlantic says they'll lose it in '16. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/why-a-gop-senate-majority-could-be-short-lived/381106/

[Gus]

PARDON MY FRENCH ALERT.

CDC DIRECTOR = Fucking libtard clown.

"we" are looking at options.
Continues to use the LIBTARD "WE" in referring to himself and Oblozo.
Can't stop West AFricans from travel to U.S. because.....errrrr, uhhhhh, errrrr.....
Is there anyone who works for Obama who isn't a clown?

[GMax]

Politico ( AKA Democrats for Democrats ) a few minutes ago just posted this. Might be catching a wave methinks:

House Democrats, facing strong political headwinds, are shifting millions of dollars of TV advertising away from 2014 challengers in order to prop up some of their most vulnerable incumbents.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is scaling back on planned commercial airtime in 11 Republican-held districts, the group said Monday. Those resources will be used to help four Democratic lawmakers facing treacherous reelection campaigns and two other candidates in districts that Democrats are trying to win from Republicans.

The spending decisions come four weeks before a midterm election that is proving perilous to Democrats, who are 17 seats deep into the House minority and are almost certain to see their delegation shrink further. Many Democratic strategists privately concede they are likely to lose about six seats — a total that could grow should the environment deteriorate further.

[Danube on iPad]

Since it takes fifteen years to train a U.S. infantry battalion commander, i do not have high hopes that these poor wretches will perform well.

[henry]

Daddy, my grandfather (and his grandfather) was also Henry. He called tomatoes "road apples" and said they were considered poisonous when he was a child (late 1800s). He and my grandmother preferred vodka / scotch to any road apple confection however spelt. ; )

[Jane]

Pagar,

You gotta see the guy that was in Megyn Kelly's show last week who was an agent inside the Mosque the Oklahoma guy came from.

[lyle]

/quietlyweeps...

[NKrebooting]

If Politico concedes 6 Dem seats lost, it will be worse than that. My guess since February has been about 8 net Repub gain in the House, Need net gain of 8 Senate seats for rational Budget government.

[NKrebooting]

"And yet it doesn't heat": the Skydragon explanation for no 18 year+ tropisphere temp increase (one anyway) is that it is hiding in the deep ocean. NASA has been testing deep ocean temps, they spiked after the '97 Super El Nino, and have been steady for 10 years now. Heat's not hiding there: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/06/the-heat-went-to-the-oceans-excuse-and-trenberths-missing-heat-is-awol-deep-ocean-has-not-warmed-since-2005/

[GMax]

Here is the list from a source I consider credible but I did not verify:the DCCC has pulled ad buys in these districts:

California’s 3rd, 10th, and 21st districts
Iowa’s 4th district
Illinois 13th district
Michigan 7th, 8th, and 11th districts
New York 21st and 23rd districts
Pennsylvania’s 6th and 8th districts

Airtime Additions are in:

Iowa 3rd district
Illinois 10th and 12th districts
Minnesota 8th district
Nebraska 2nd district
New York’s 18th district

[Pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Thanks, Jane!
I didn't see it but searched and found it.
We have many of these reports and then we have Holder covering for them every time .
Unbelievable!

[Ignatz]

--I plagiarize only the best.

Posted by: MarkO | October 06, 2014 at 04:32 PM --

I prefer to think of it as coincidental creativity. :)

[MarkO]

Unconscious parallelism.

[clarice]

Theft, and I'm the biggest thief of all. Ask Rick B.

[Miss Marple]

Jane,

I didn't answer you this morning when you talked about this guy from the mosque.

I don't claim any special expertise, but things I read right after 9/11 convinced me that almost all of the mosques are two-faced, so I wasn't particularly shocked. It confirmed what I had thought for over a decade.

It is why I was so upset about Obama prohibiting the FBI from sending people undercover into mosques. I think it is a deliberate attempt to prevent us from discovering their true motives.

I suppose many will say I am too suspicious, Islamophobic, bigoted, etc.

Maybe so. I can only tell you how I feel.

[Rob Crawford]

never saw the movie version of The Wiz, was it that bad?

Best review of it I've seen. Warning: reviewer is not to everyone's taste.

[Dave (in MA)]

A "road apple" comes out of the back end of a horse.

[Miss Marple]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outbreak

Interview with the Belgian doctor who discovered Ebola. Very interesting.

[MarkO]

clarice,

All good lawyers are plagiarists. We all use what worked before. You, being one of the best, may well have stolen, but it was for the good of us all.

[Extraneus]

things I read right after 9/11 convinced me that almost all of the mosques are two-faced

One doesn't get into the mafia by just showing up at a meeting. There's a period of probation, where the applicant is ultimately expected to perform some task that conclusively demonstrates his fealty to the group. This task is always illegal, exposing the applicant to personal danger. And how could it be otherwise without risking infiltration?

Surely it's the same with the inner jihadi circle, which comprises millions of people.

[Miss Marple]

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/health/2014/10/06/perry-announces-infectious-disease-task-force/16807813/

"The governor is also calling on the federal government to immediately begin stricter screening measures at all ports of entry into the United States to prevent the disease from entering."

[clarice]

Thanks, Mark,
MM, If I recall it was the national swoon during the Church Committee where we learned that Le and intel folks were sitting in on churches to gather info about demos and such that led to a ban on doing that. I do seem to recall though that there were Dems arguing that (white) churchs ought to be monitored to make sure ministers weren't jeopardizing their tax free status by campaigning in them

[Miss Marple]

clarice,

You are probably right. However, I also seem to remember that undercovers at mosques were only recently prohibited.

Stopped in October of 2011.

http://www.ldjackson.net/obama-administration-restricts-spying-in-mosques/

[Threadkiller]

http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-supreme-court-abdicating-duty-to-uphold-constitution-by-refusing-to-rule-if-states-can-define-marriage/

[Rick B]

Clarice,

I'm just sorry the reign of the King of the Global Village Idiots has soured me to the point it has. Watching the Center for the Spread of Incurable Disease in action isn't improving my mood at all.

What happened to R2P and imposition of the precautionary principle to save the planet? How the hell did we get to "air bad, Ebola good"?

[Ignatz]

We can spy on Angela Merkel but not the Blind Sheik.

[Rob Crawford]

So the CDC published this paper about how quarantine has been effective through history.

The arrival of boats suspected of carrying plague was signaled with a flag that would be seen by lookouts on the church tower of San Marco. The captain was taken in a lifeboat to the health magistrate’s office and was kept in an enclosure where he spoke through a window; thus, conversation took place at a safe distance. This precaution was based on a mistaken hypothesis (i.e., that “pestilential air” transmitted all communicable diseases), but the precaution did prevent direct person-to-person transmission through inhalation of contaminated aerosolized droplets.

A century ago, quarantine was declared a product of a bygone, ignorant age. Then came Spanish Flu, and the age of quarantine was born again.

[NKrebooting]

quarentine works because of the laws of probability. All other variables being equal, the fewer potential infected individuals, the more containable the spread of the infection. Progs curse laws, especially mathematical laws. It is part of their psychosis.

[Rob Crawford]

What happened to R2P and imposition of the precautionary principle to save the planet?

Those are only about getting the US mired in Third-World cesspits and impoverishing western civilization.

[NKrebooting]

It's an outrage reading that 2013 CDC paper. The blight of Obamaism has corrupted public health doctrine. They curse math and science.

[Extraneus]

So yesterday I read that James Woods the actor was in first-class on a flight in 2001 with Atta and other 9/11 hijackers and found their actions suspicious and reported this to airline authorities and ultimately the FBI. I never knew that.

Now we find out about this.

At least three eyewitnesses spotted al Qaeda hijackers casing the security checkpoints at Boston’s Logan Airport months before the 9/11 attacks. They saw something and said something — but were ignored, newly unveiled court papers reveal.

One of the witnesses, an American Airlines official, actually confronted hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta after watching him videotape and test a security checkpoint in May 2001 — four months before he boarded the American Airlines flight that crashed into the World Trade Center.

The witness alerted security, but authorities never questioned the belligerent Egyptian national or flagged him as a threat.

“I’m convinced that had action been taken after the sighting of Atta, the 9/11 attacks, at least at Logan, could have been deterred,” said Brian Sullivan, a former FAA special agent who at the time warned of holes in security at the airport.

Ed Morrissey:

What’s more disturbing is that we are only finding out about this now, more than thirteen years later. The only reason we did get this information is that the attorneys representing the family of one victim in a negligent-death lawsuit decided to finally release the documents they received during the discovery process. The question will be whether the 9/11 Commission had access to them, too – and if so, why they sat on the information. If they didn’t get this information … why not? And what else was kept from them, and/or us over the last thirteen years?

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/06/see-something-say-something-and-then-nothing/

[Skoot]

"it takes fifteen years to train a U.S. infantry battalion commander"

Exactly. It's preposterous for Obama to claim Iraqi forces should have been ready last year. It would have taken a couple generations.

I'm more convinced, now that ISIS is shaking off coalition airstrikes like T-Swizzle and flying the Black Flag over Kobani where a desperate Kurd told the Atlantic,

"A terrible slaughter is coming. If they take the city, we should expect to have 5,000 dead within 24 or 36 hours,"

that Baghdad will fall before Obama leaves office.

[Extraneus]

“I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.”

“I spent — I’ve been there 17 times now. I go about every two months — three months. I know every one of the major players in all of the segments of that society. It’s impressed me. I’ve been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.”

-- Joseph Biden, Man of Gravitas

[NKrebooting]

SloJo-- point man for Stimulus! Iraq policy; and what other epic failures thesew past 6 years?

[narciso]

history doesn't alway repeat, but it does rhyme,
and I get the terrible foreboding of Year Zero,
re Baghdad,

[peter]

I remember going to a family graduation at Adelphi University in Garden City New York a few years ago where Geoffrey Holder was the commencement speaker. Exactly why he was chosen was not clear. And Geoffrey, as charming as he was, had no idea what a commencement speech should consist of. He rambled on seemingly for an hour, until finally someone must have given him the "cut" sign, and he quickly ended his remarks at a random point.