President Obama has a new ISIS czar, ♏tasked to figure out how to battle the terrorist group — and it’s the same guy he dumped from his 2008 campaign for having met with anoth🍷er terror outfit, Hamas.
Well, at least the guy knows his terrorists.
Not that Robert Malley has been out in the political wilderness since he🐬 became too hot a potato for Obama’s White House hopes.
A onetime member of President B🗹ill Clinton’s Middle East team, Malley returned to the White House last year to head the Middle East desk at the National Security Council. But he’s been under the gun before, particularly from pro-Israeli circles.
He wrote a widely criticized article saying Palestinians were getting too much blame for the collapse of Clinton’s late-term negotiation♈s. This, despite Clinton’s statement to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat: “I am a failure — and you made me one.”
A few years later, Malley wrote that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad wa🍒s eager to reach a peace deal with Israel that would enable him to sever all ties with terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
And in a 2012 piece in Foreign Pol😼icy, he charged that Obama essentially had caved in to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “15-year obsession” and “exaggeration” of Iran’s nuclear threat.
OK, so he’s been no prophet when it comes to the region. But here’s the biggest reason for concern: I𒐪n touting Malley’s NSC promotion last spring, National Security Adviser Susan Rice boasted, 🔯“Since February 2014, Rob has played a critical role in forming our policy on Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf.”
Given how🔥 badly Team Obama’s handled those policies, that’s nothing to be proud of. With Malley in as ISIS czar, expect more of the same.