◼ Today on the Mark Levin show, Eli Lake said that he is hearing from Obama administration officials sympathetic to the president’s point of view that they are worried about who will administer Raqqa if they liberate it from ISIS control. - The Right Scoop
MARK LEVIN: And why, why is he the last hold out?
ELI LAKE: Oh I think the president is in some ways a prisoner of his own ideology which is in many ways defined as he will do the opposite of what he perceived the last administration would do in a situation.
But I think he also worries that what comes after, what comes next. So, let’s say the US forces liberate Raqqa which is a Syrian city where we know that ISIS is in control because of the Vice News video. Well then who would administer Raqqa? That’s what I’m getting from administration officials sympathetic to the president’s view.
But at a certain point you have to say what’s worse than this new caliphate beheading journalists in the middle of Syria right now. And it’s hard to imagine what would be worse than that.
