HARF BARF – AT 2:18 P.M. ET:  Marie Harf, late of Obama's State Department, now a Fox News contributor, tried to give credit to Field Marshal Obama for the recent, dramatic defeat of ISIS.  I don't think she was too persuasive.  From Breitbart: 

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the “strategy” that led ISIS’s defeat was “laid out during the Obama administration by military commanders.”

She added, “President Trump has loosened the rules of engagement. He has allowed the military to use more bombs for example and so I think that has helped. But for me, the bigger question is what is the strategy going forward? There are tens of thousands of ISIS fighters who once they lose this territory in Syria and Iraq are going to go back to Europe they are going to go online they are going to radicalize people like we have seen try to commit terrorist attacks here in the U.S. So in terms of the fight against ISIS  this is a good step, but the fight is going to continue in a different and almost more dangerous way.”

COMMENT:  How profound.  The fact is that President Trump turned this fight over to the military, and let the military win.  And win they did.  Quickly and efficiently.  Winning is good.  As MacArthur said, "In war there is no substitute for victory."  I don't think I ever heard the word "victory" pass Obama's lips.

And yes, the surviving ISIS fighters will return home and some will become terrorists.  That is the threat we face,  But now we have a president who understands the threat, actually uses the term "Islamic terrorism," and doesn't refer to acts of terror as "manmade disasters."  Quite a change from the last guy.  Getting the facts right, and admitting them, is the first step to victory.

December 29, 2017