Posted on 09/08/2014 10:58:53 AM PDT by mojito
One day before the thirteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, President Barack Obama plans to address the nation on the threat posed by ISIS extremists -- telling NBC News the U.S. will “hunt down" the terrorists "wherever they are.”
The president revealed his plans for the upcoming address during a wide-ranging, exclusive interview on NBC’s Meet the Press.
“What I'm going to be asking the American people to understand is, number one, this is a serious threat,” Obama said about the speech, which is not expected to be a prime time address. “Number two, we have the capacity to deal with it.”
Obama emphasized he will not advocate for the deployment of U.S. ground troops in the region, saying it would be “a profound mistake” to put American boots on the ground in Syria as some critics have suggested.
“This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war,” he said, stressing that the United States will work with “regional partners” like Iraqi and Kurdish forces and Syrian rebel troops to degrade the terror group’s capacities.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
You mean like the Assad regime you were going to bomb last year?
You mean like Iran?
The only “extremists” he is interested in hunting down is the Tea Party Patriot contingent.
Hunt down extremists?
How come I get the feeling he means us instead of the mad dog islamocrazies?
Included in regional partners are “Syrian rebel troops.” Are these the ones that have been vetted? /S
Isn’t ISIS part of the Syrian rebel troops, just the “bad” part? What kind of BS is this?
IS, like the open borders oozing gouts of disease
and terrorists, is the CHILD of Obama and the DNC.
Hunt down the guys he help train and arm in Syria?
Is he confused?
No Obama is a moron and wants to arm the “moderate” terrorist scumbags fighting against Assad.
Wow!
Oh wow!
A “Major Address”
Ooooh. Ahhhhh.
I thought Obama’s bosses had given up on the “Major address” crapola
As long as the terrorist’s hide in little round holes, surrounded by manicured grass, with a flag sticking out.
We all know how dangerous those people can be. Why, there was even an entirely slanderous, utterly false report that those people once shouted out the "N" word.
Tell them you have a strategy AND LEAVE IT AT THAT.
RE: Vows to ‘Hunt Down’ Extremists
VOW as in “I vow to you that if you like your healthcare provider, you can keep it.”?
That kind of vow?
Forgive me if I am not leaping with excitement...
Sounds like F Chuck Todd gave a happy ending after Meet the Press.
How are we going to do that with “absolutely no boots on the ground”
One of the three local Washington D.C. news broadcasts last announced excitedly that Obama was going to announce a strategy for dealing with ISIS.
Nothing about his announcement last week of no-strategy.
Nothing about spending the last six years with an f’d up (non-) strategy in Iraq.
And Syria.
And Egypt.
Israel.
Ukraine.
Poland
Iran.
Yemen.
Jordan.
Saudi Arabia.
Mexico.
Oh sh!t. They vet the enemy and he is us.
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