Convention speeches usually aren’t bound by accuracy, but sometimes they are so false they require a comment. So it is with former Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim that President Trump inherited “a more peaceful world” and “bankrupted it.”Mr. Kerry brags that the Obama Administration “built a 68-nation coalition to destroy ISIS.” But why did the U.S. have to defeat Islamic State to begin with? Barack Obama retreated from Iraq in 2011 and ran for re-election on the withdrawal the following year. By 2014 ISIS had taken...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 19, 2020 22:07 UTC