{"id":23328,"date":"2015-11-30T15:56:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23328"},"modified":"2015-11-30T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:56:41","slug":"contained-isis-captures-first-city-beyond-iraq-or-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23328\/contained-isis-captures-first-city-beyond-iraq-or-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Contained?&#8221;  ISIS Captures First City Beyond Iraq or Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours prior to the terrorist massacre in Paris, Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/14\/politics\/paris-terror-attacks-obama-isis-contained\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">foolishly claimed<\/a> that ISIS was &#8220;contained.&#8221; \u00a0This morning, we awoke to more bad news, and additional refutation of Obama&#8217;s assertion. \u00a0Namely, ISIS has now captured Sirte, Libya, meaning that it now controls its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/islamic-state-entrenches-in-sirte-libya-1448798153\" target=\"_blank\">first city beyond Syria or Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even as foreign powers step up pressure against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the militant group has expanded in Libya and established a new base close to Europe where it can generate oil revenue and plot terror attacks. \u00a0Since announcing its presence in February in Sirte, the city on Libya&#8217;s Mediterranean coast has become the first that the militant group governs outside of Syria and Iraq.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; color: #333333; background: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;\">So much for &#8220;containment.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">What has become undeniably clear is that Obama&#8217;s foreign policy generally, and anti-terrorism leadership specifically, are failures. \u00a0Fortunately, there will be a new Commander in Chief in just a few months. \u00a0But unfortunately, there&#8217;s a lot more damage that he can do before then. \u00a0The key for the American electorate is to choose a replacement who will bring improvement. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours prior to the terrorist massacre in Paris, Barack Obama foolishly claimed that ISIS was &#8220;contained.&#8221; \u00a0This morning, we awoke to more bad news, and additional refutation of Obama&#8217;s assertion. \u00a0Namely, ISIS has now captured Sirte, Libya, meaning that it now controls its first city beyond Syria or Iraq: Even as foreign powers step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4789,4578,24],"class_list":["post-23328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-contained","tag-isis","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23329,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328\/revisions\/23329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}