Posted on 08/26/2014 4:08:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
One does not need to be Sun Tzu or George Patton to know that a nation must recognize an enemy before it can develop a strategy to defeat it. But one apparently does have to be someone other than President Barack Obama.
Since he took office, Obama has spent considerable energy trying to convince us how peaceful and magnificent the religion of Islam is and how exceptional acts of terrorism springing from it are.
He has also been telling us in words and deeds that such terrorism can best be prevented by overtures of peace and good will toward Islam, understanding that the root cause of this violence is poverty, and developing an action plan to address it.
That means the United States must downsize its military, because our sheer strength and power constitutes a threat -- a provocation to the rest of the world. It means that we must pursue "economic justice," a wretched euphemism for undermining our capitalist system and redistributing our wealth at home and abroad.
But even Obama's stalwart supporters in the liberal media now understand that this man doesn't have a clue about how to deal with threats to the United States. He is highly proficient at campaigning, community organizing, partisan agitating and ordering underlings to carry out his agenda, but he is psychologically incapable of attending to the details himself and appears to have no interest in actual governance beyond setting his statist goals and issuing his implementation orders.
Obama either can't focus on high-level problems he didn't anticipate in connection with his various utopian schemes or is so narcissistic that he rides around blindly in his golf cart like Mr. Magoo, wholly unaware of the damage he's done to his own reputation as a serious, engaged and thoughtful person.
I do mean "utopian." He mistakenly believed that his stimulus would work like a magic elixir to send the economy to new heights (or he knew better and it was a ruse to redistribute funds to his political cronies and funnel money to his pet projects). He believed that his beloved Obamacare was a panacea for improving the quality and affordability of health care (or he knew better and it was a Trojan horse for establishing governmental control over all aspects of our lives). He thought he could achieve world peace by withdrawing our forces from foreign entanglements -- even without plans to preserve the order -- making nice speeches about Islam, removing the term "terrorist" from our vocabulary (except for its application to tea partyers), instituting a "reset" with Russia, whatever that means, and downsizing our military and defense systems (and there's no indication at all that he knew better on this one).
But here we are, after his insistence that al-Qaida was on the run and that the Islamic State is the JV squad, watching an Islamic caliphate proliferate in front of our eyes in the Levant.
Even if hard reality is finally forcing Obama to grudgingly recognize the threat the Islamic State represents to the Middle East, he still refuses to believe or admit it represents a danger to the United States, especially with the porousness of the border he has made sure to effectuate.
It's not just his reckless naivete but his compulsion to place his political self-interests above the national interests that inhibits him from publicly acknowledging the magnitude of the threats we are facing. In his mind, to make such an admission is tantamount to conceding that he was wrong and that his policies have exacerbated these threats -- and that's a charitable assessment. That's why he reportedly dragged his feet for a month before approving a rescue attempt on American journalist James Foley. That, and he didn't want to risk a Jimmy Carter-type failure -- again because he cares more about his political image than the problems he is duty-bound to address.
Even if Obama is willfully blind to the enormity of the threat, sentient Americans not similarly blinded by his ideology have to be disturbed by what we're witnessing in the world.
The Islamic State is massacring Christians, beheading American journalists, surging toward the borders of Turkey, marching across the Middle East with the swiftness of Alexander the Great and brazenly boasting that it is inside America, poised to attack. Islamist forces have taken control of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and seized an airport there. They have captured a key Syrian air base near the Iraqi border. The Pentagon is saying the Islamic State threat is "beyond anything we've seen."
Meanwhile, Obama has been riding around in his golf cart, which might as well sport a bumper sticker of Mad magazine's Alfred E. Neuman saying, "What, me worry?"
Honestly, I have been horrified by Obama's lawlessness, his destructive domestic policies leading to a permanently anemic economy and workforce, his staggering debt expansions, and his horrendous taxing, spending, regulatory and health care policies. But these foreign and domestic terror threats, along with the border invasion, may even be more troublesome.
I hate to be negative, and I refuse to be pessimistic, but anyone not alarmed by current events is in some physical, mental or emotional state I am powerless to comprehend.
He’s not blind he’s destructive
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.......part of the problem.
THE BIGGEST PART!
He is not blind, he is a traitor of the highest order.
It is all a charade for him. He is conveniently inculpable for anything his administration does.
“Obama’s Staggering Blindness Complicity to Growing Terror Threat”
Ditto! He’s not inept or stupid. It IS what he wants.
People like Obama believe a strong America causes terrorism.
Like pretty much everything else they have this completely assbackwards.
A strong America discourages terrorism; a weak America invites terrorism.
It’s not blindness. He deliberately and intentionally chooses to give the bearded savages a free pass on everything they do.
He’s diddling around, can’t decide what to do about “IS”.
Any man with male apparatus would have bombed the $h!t out of “IS” by now.
He doesn’t want to hurt his true buddies.
He’s not blind, he just doesn’t give a rat’s *ss.
His poorly-sublimated hatred for America and the American people has left us all in jeopardy, and NO ONE is doing a d*mned things about it.
We can only hope that our Stealth Services are doing a better job of it than our legislators.
He’s not blind it’s on purpose, his utter disdain for the American way and the American people has been evident from day 1. I’m amazed,angry and beside myself at the GOP and others who are on the right side and some on the left who are on the right side that are just going along to get along sitting on thier hands playing see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. They have sold us down the river and now they are willing to sacrifice our family, friends and nieghbors to the animals that can easily be eradicated. They are t in place to protect us and our way of life and are hiding under the kitchen table hoping nothing happeneds
Where did his great big old willie ears go?
I believe he has African Ear Wasting Syndrome.
This is true of all liberals. Which begs the question, "How do you explain the explosive growth in terrorism with the weakening of the U.S. due to the last six years of the jug-eared ass clown adminstration?" Liberalism truly is a mental illness.
Bookmark.
” It IS what he wants.”
Yep, exactly.
I remember some FReepers oh-so-insistent that overthrowin Ghadafy in Libya was such a great and wonderful idea.. the likelihood of a eventual Islamist takeover in that country just didn’t compute with them.
BACKSTORY Recall that 2012 candidate Obama's campaign ploy repeatedly assured Americans that he had “decimated” the jihadist enemies---famously saying "Ben Laden was dead and al Quaeda was on the run."
Obama duped Americans into believing he had "heroically" put the villains on “the path to defeat” ....even as he appointed top Muslims to WH jobs and fashioned laws to allow terrorists into the US.
Clearly, Obama was in collusion w/ the savages---stupidly believing he had bought them off......as Americans now discover they are stronger than ever. They're even making beheading videos----like they were rock stars entertainng global audiences.
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Observing Obama's activities leading up to the beheading of James Foley---clearly, this was not supposed to happen. Obama had done everything in his power to appease the jihadists---funding the Muslim Brotherhood, appointing the Brotherhood to key WH positions.....even calling Egyptian President al Sisi trying to convince him to leave the M/B alone(al Sisi refused to take Obama's call and proceeded to decimate the M/B).
Benghazi was also one of Obama's "done deals"---gone awry when four Americans were slaughtered.
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Fighting the war on terror? Hardly. Obama's making plans to install them in our communities.
Obama admin unilaterally changes law to allow immigrants
with 'limited' terror contact into US The Daily Caller
| 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum
The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.
“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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REFERENCE Federal outreach to Muslim-American communities is a pillar of Obama counter-terrorism strategy
Washington post | 5/25/2013 | ap / FR Posted by tobyhill
Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, US government officials and Muslims in Boston called each other to offer assistance. These calls were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15....
Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats. (more on FR).
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Hillary and Bill had pics of Obama in Muslim dress
in 2008 primary, but Uncle Teddy warned them not to use them.
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Kenya-resident, Malik Obama in Muslim dress, holds up
photo of his half brother Obama in Muslim dress, taken
during O's circa 1972 visit to Kenya. Obama gave Malik's
"foundation" named for their father $50 million tax dollars.
Obama gave the Muslim Brotherhood billions of tax dollars
and elevated them to prominent positions in the US govt.
Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development;
Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council;
Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference;
Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC);
Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA);
Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.
It’s interesting that the libs would rather call Obama blind and ignorant the acknowledge the obvious fact that he’s on the terrorist’s side.
Like any hardcore leftist, Obama is living their long-held wet dream of the destruction of America. The terrorists, with whom he himself said he stands, will help him facilitate that desired objective.
Obama knows EXACTLY what he’s doing.
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