Wilke, page-14

http://canadafreepress.com/article/75059

"The refugee crisis was ignited by Obama when he made the ill-fated decision to prematurely pull American troops out of Iraq. Obama actually inherited a relatively stable Iraq where the presence of U.S military bases in Iraq maintained peace in a historically divided country struggling to become a democracy. The presence of U.S. power and fortitude to engage was reassuring to the people of Iraq forging ahead with a new constitution. This is not unlike America’s decision to maintain military bases and guidance in Germany and Japan following their defeat in WW II, and then a very successful military position in the DMZ between North and South Korea following the Korean War. The bases do not cost American tax payers any more than what it would be to house the soldiers in the U.S. so why do it when the job was not completed?

Instead, either Obama’s naive understanding of complex foreign affairs or the more likelihood of his head-in-the-sand possessed by political dovishness in utilizing the military as an effective resource in nation building. This disastrous position allowed for a power vacuum where the Iranian-backed Shia and opposing Sunni tribes to once again ascent in their ancient struggle for control of the country. Further to the north where seeds of democracy sought freedom in Syria, a simultaneous civil war began to ensue in an attempt to unseat the longstanding and ruthless President Bashar al-Assad.

The Russian-backed Syrian dictator unleashed his military might against the incapable pro-democracy movement that resulted in President Obama drawing the infamous line in the sand where he claimed American military might would engage the Assad regime if the brutality and slaughtering of tens of thousands of innocent people ensued. Fast forward to today and Obama’s failure to keep his ‘line in the sand’ commandment and the decision to pull out of Iraq resulted in birth of the barbaric and well-armed ISIS inserting themselves as the opposing force in two civil wars in Syria and Iraq. ISIS has since aligned with Islamic forces in Libya and other regions in Africa as they instill fear through their murderous brutality and ethnic and religious persecution.

President Obama’s muted saber rattling was perceived as American weakness and provided the Assad regime with the ‘green light’ to proceed with the indiscriminate slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children that eventually displaced millions of people across the Middle East. With nowhere to turn, the hundreds of thousands of refugees began their trek in a mass exodus to the fruited plains of the European Community. Let’s be clear, ISIS never existed prior to Obama."