Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
We have a failed state in Syria.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.
When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.