Well of course he did... Tim Arango, the New York Times Baghdad bureau chief, dropped a comment on Twitter that has generated lots of buzz. In it, he says that the Obama administration basically ignored Iraq, and misled or lied to the American people about its rosy condition – all as a context for the withdrawal of the last American troops.
The only Americans who could possibly be surprised by this are the most credulous, least informed Americans. That might be a majority, though. Anybody who has been paying attention for the last six years will find this completely and utterly unsurprising; indeed, the absence of this would have been the surprising finding...
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