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Syria and Obama: Part II
1 posted on 09/09/2013 1:33:08 PM PDT by jazusamo
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2 posted on 09/09/2013 1:34:49 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type)
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4 posted on 09/09/2013 1:39:37 PM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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Nor is it at all clear that his previous policies and actions in the Middle East were well thought out, unless he was deliberately trying to weaken the position of the Western world, including Israel.

Whatever the Obama rhetoric, the reality is that his policies in Egypt and Libya have led to replacing stable regimes, at peace with Israel and the West, and tolerant of their own Christian minorities, with chaotic regimes in which fanatical anti-Western terrorists have played a large and growing role, with hostility to Israel and murderous attacks on Christians in their own country.

5 posted on 09/09/2013 1:39:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Heck, we have no idea who all the players are and who might be even “the marginally less-bad guys”.


6 posted on 09/09/2013 1:42:01 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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A wise commentary. One may only hope that it will be widely circulated.

William Flax

7 posted on 09/09/2013 1:47:41 PM PDT by Ohioan
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The Current Occupant of the White Hut is embarrassed?

How can you tell? His whole life has been an embarrassment, to socialism, to Islam, to community organizing, to any international forum on which he may appear. Incompetence shows at every pore of his being, as he was deliberately miseducated, always gaining placement in schools because of affirmative action, and his recorded grades concealed because of scholastic inadequacies. His very parentage is in question, being really too “white” for the racial minority of African descent that makes up some 13%. He actually falls in that much smaller category of “racially mixed”. He has few if any roots in the indigenous population of descendants of former slaves, a fact reflected upon by Jesse Jackson and others, and lacks the street cred to be “down for the struggle”.

His ties to the history of the United States and its foundation were never very well established, as his early mentors, including his one “parent” (Stanley Ann Dunham was more likely his half-sister, rather than his birth mother) and Frank Davis Marshall, both committed socialists. His youth spent in Indonesia did nothing to instill any love of the ideal that is America in his mind, and he was a lackadaisical scholar by any estimate. Sure, he “came to love” the sound of the call to evening prayer at the mosque in Indonesia, where he was given the religious training as a youth, but he is at best only a sunshine Muslim, if he professes to any religion at all. His credentials as a Christian are even more suspect, and any “conversion” to Christianity was superficial at best.

Accursed post turtle.


9 posted on 09/09/2013 2:08:10 PM PDT by alloysteel (Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
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But will a transparently token military action preserve American credibility?

It will not. Reason enough to resist it.

13 posted on 09/09/2013 2:38:48 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
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As someone said, long ago, once the shooting starts all plans go out the window.

Helmuth Von Moltke the elder, who ought to know.

Whatever the Obama rhetoric, the reality is that his policies in Egypt and Libya have led to replacing stable regimes, at peace with Israel and the West, and tolerant of their own Christian minorities, with chaotic regimes in which fanatical anti-Western terrorists have played a large and growing role, with hostility to Israel and murderous attacks on Christians in their own country.

How colossally incompetent would we have to believe 0bama to be to even suspect that it wasn't deliberate? Plenty of my fellow FReepers aren't buying it and I'm not sure I want to try selling it. Either way, this administration makes Carter's look competent, and that's saying something.

14 posted on 09/09/2013 2:41:46 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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There is no doubt America and yes our presidency will survive ‘after the Obama’.

The problem is “do the American people learn anything” from how he got elected twice?

If not, then America and the presidency does not deserve ‘surviving’. Harsh, I know, please don't blame me.

16 posted on 09/09/2013 2:52:02 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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The only thing that would improve my opinion of Obama is his resignation.
17 posted on 09/09/2013 3:17:32 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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Dr. Sowell hits another home run. Why can’t He be a presidents adviser? If I were president, he’d be the first person I would call.


18 posted on 09/09/2013 3:27:34 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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BTTT.


25 posted on 09/09/2013 8:35:15 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. No Blood For Ego!)
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“There is no question that the credibility of the presidency — regardless of who holds that office — is a major asset of this country.”

I have to respectfully disagree with Dr Sowell. The repudiation of Obama by congress and the american people would not weaken the presidency beyond Obama, any more than a weak Carter weakened Reagan. Iran saw the light rather quickly once Reagan was inaugurated, as did the USSR.


26 posted on 09/09/2013 10:44:12 PM PDT by aquila48
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>> but to spare the American presidency from losing all credibility

That happened long ago. And to kill for credibility is simply sick and idiotic.


27 posted on 09/10/2013 1:38:38 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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