(June 13, 2015 at 1:33 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(June 13, 2015 at 7:43 am)TheMessiah Wrote: It is most certainly a global threat; that's why Islamic terrorism dominates America's foreign policy right now. His foreign policy is dominated by his inability to beat ISIS, it's also why China, a communist country is going to extreme lengths to get Muslims out of their country, and not allow any religious influx.
No, America's foreign policy is not "dominated" by Islamic terrorism. It is dominated by the concern of China claiming the South China Sea. That is the crux of Obama's "pivot" policy. America is lending aid to Iraq to contain ISIS not out of strategic considerations, but because we know that if the American-installed regime in Baghdad were to be toppled by ISIS, the futility of our entire policy in Iraq dating back to Hussein's removal will be shown to the world as bankrupt. And that is all it is.
Obama's failure to control ISIS has drew severe criticism, even from within his own party. His choice of pulling troops from Iraq which left the power vacuum for ISIS to take power has also been criticized. One of the reasons his foreign policy is no longer held in a positive light is the dilemna between non-intervention and ISIS gaining more power/killing more people.
Hussein's power in the Middle-East was effective at punching down terrorist groups, Bush's decision to go to war clearly ruined his foreign policy, and Obama's policy of removing the troops backfired, and gave leeway to a larger, stronger ISIS.
