WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Giuliani was speaking two days after Obama admitted on Monday that his administration still lacked “a complete strategy” to respond to the growing success of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The following day, the US president approved another 450 military advisors to train Iraqi forces.
“ISIS [Islamic State] is a complete product of his taking our troops out of there,” Giuliani, 71, said in an interview with Fox News reported in The Hill on Wednesday. “It’s not a cliche; it’s a reality.”
Giuliani slammed Obama for failing to anticipate the possible problems that would arise in Iraq after US combat forces were withdrawn.
“The US should be embarrassed by him coming out to say he didn’t have a strategy in Iraq. Iraq has been an issue for his entire presidency.”
Giuliani also claimed Obama’s strategy should have been to leave behind a substantial number of US soldiers who would have preemptively attacked the Islamic State.
“[W]e would have been able to wipe them out at an early stage instead of letting the monster grow its head.”
Moreover, Obama “created a vacuum in the Middle East by not supporting the Syrian rebels,” Giuliani claimed.
Giuliani was a twice-elected mayor of New York City which he led from 1994 to 2001. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
