In recent days, I was speaking with a renowned national security expert source familiar with the CIA and a former member of the US military. It seemed clear that his bewilderment with the White House's public comments on the issue of the Islamic State of Syria & Iraq or ISIS, has caught his ire. The scenario depicted to the American people is far rosier perhaps than the reality and he asks that Americans simply look at the amazing exodus of the locals from the Greater Syrian region as evidence. His disbelief culminated with the appearance of White House Spokesman Josh Earnest, who appeared on New Day on CNN yesterday.

The refugee crisis has found its way on to the shores of Europe and President Obama has already committed to take 200,000 of them for starters according to Secretary of State John Kerry. But if ISIS is in the decline and the days numbered, why is the president offering permanent residency status instead of helping them get back to a region now "closer to stabilization"?

Refugees waiting for placement in Eastern Europe
Refugees waiting for placement in Eastern Europe
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Ask the Italian and Greek people if they believe the situation just across the Mediterranean seems to be improving. Every day scores of people are arriving in boats, washing up on shore dead from unworthy sea-crafts, forced to make the journey or face what remains on the Western shores of the Middle East..which is better by the day if you listen to Obama.

The reality is that things are bad and the Caliphate metastasizing in to Northern Africa. Oddly, it seems the Russians will take the lead on dealing with ISIS and they have begun efforts to combat them. President Obama and Putin are at odds as to who should be in power in Syria, in the event ISIS is defeated and the focus can change to whether Assad remains. President Obama's position is that Assad is a tyrant and cannot remain in office. The Russians are opposed to this removal. They use Syria as a coveted warm water port and their national interests may be adversely effected under some new regime, favored by the United States.

So there's that! But back to the president's mysterious motive to move hundreds of thousands of "refugees" to the United States. Either things are getting better in Syria and Iraq, as he says, or things are not managed well which would be his fault. Could it be the outgoing President and staunch Democrat is doing what he is doing with our southern border? Is Obama manufacturing voters via crisis, even at the expense of the American national security and economy? Let's see how many are assigned to residency in Ohio, Florida and Virginia.

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