Posted on 09/12/2014 8:47:50 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page discusses President Obama's lackluster delivery of his remarks addressing the ISIS threat and how he can't escape involvement with Iraq and Syria
As he offered to the nation his prescription for the Islamic State crisis, President Barack Obama reminded me of Michael Corleone in "The Godfather: Part III." "Just when I thought I was out," sighed the young mob boss about his efforts to leave the family business, "they pull me back in."
Obama's reluctance similarly showed in his televised speech Wednesday to outline his strategy to beat the jihadis known as the Islamic State, ISIS or ISIL. Elected on promises to pull the United States out of two wars, Obama shows little appetite for new ones. As he talked like a hawk, he could hardly keep his inner dove from showing.
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Obama is going to do his best to minimize damage to ISIS and maximize damage to the United States.
This is going to be a disaster.
We all heard the hype for several days before “the speech”. It delivered what all of us here expected.
Obama's fight with the Not-Islamic State?
That should read:
Obama's "fight" with the Islamic State
We all know it's a charade.
Obama is psychologically conflicted. He is very troubled about ordering white, infidel Christian pilots to bomb dark skinned Muslim jihadists despite their barbarity. This is why he and administration officials are spewing the nonsensical line that “ISIS is not really Islamic”. This “allows” Obama to issue the orders. Also it is by no means certain that his bellicosity and desire to destroy ISIS will last long. He rapidly loses focus and interest in most of his policies. Obama confuses rhetoric with leadership and accomplishment. He seems very disinterested in the hard work of policy implementation and deployment. Potential allies understand this character flaw and are reluctant to partner with Obama.
When zero is behind closed doors addressing his liberal flock, he speaks of conservatives like disease ridden vermin that need to be stamped out using every available means. When speaking of ISIS in front of the nation, he likens them to “some pretty bad folks with attitude problems that besmirch the name of the prophet mohammed with their uncalled for antics”.
Clown Prince nobama is mentally disturbed...a psychopath. His dishonesty is chronic and ongoing. Even he cannot sort-out reality from his lies. 40 countries in his “coalition”...Bah! Name them.
That’s about it.
Obama is Evil and we must expect evil from him.
Good point.
Can anyone tell me what his speech was about and what he proposed to do?
Better yet can anyone remember anything that he said. At one point I think he said something about car companies.
This guy was all over the map and had no strategy beyond pushing this problem past his term.
His other goal is to overthrow Bashar in Syria same time as attacking IS. — “Kirby said the Pentagon foresees training more than 5,000 Syrian rebels in Saudi Arabia over the coming year.” — http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2014/09/12/us-will-be-ramping-up-airstrikes-soon-in-iraq — this isn’t good at all. Needs to acknowledge how IS came about & grew. The islamization of that region continues.
I wonder why comrade obama isn’t more enthusiastic about trying out his new experimental, downsized and politically correct armed forces that he created by degrading the formidable military he got from GWB.
He’s only doing this because he wants the Democrats to look tough for the upcoming elections...he could care less about ISIS and the free world...
Why act now - after almost all the Christians have been slaughtered and the one that survived uprooted from their homes or sold into slavery...
what a traitor!
It’s really a Pillow Fight.
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