Posted on 09/10/2014 7:19:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
ANALYSIS: Obama Plays Catch-Up With Public and Himself Sep 10, 2014 ANALYSIS by RICK KLEIN
President Obama on Wednesday night entered a new phase of his presidency -- and he did it in a most Obama of ways.
First, to what’s changed: He’s announcing a war, not ending one. He’s preparing to act without Congress, almost exactly a year after deferring to the legislative branch on a question of whether to use American military force.
The president is rushing to catch up with and soothe an anxious, even frightened, public. He’s doing it while looking to reverse perceptions that he’s been slow to respond to metastasizing crises in the Middle East and beyond.
“I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat,” the president declared. “Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.”
That last word – “strategy” – appeared four times in the president’s prime-time address. The repetition was an implicit follow-up to an already infamous quote from two weeks ago, when the president said “We don’t have a strategy yet” to confront ISIS in Syria.
Yet the president did not announce any new actions, beyond sending fewer than 500 new service members to Iraq, and repeated request for Congress to fund training of Syrian opposition forces. He said “I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria,” but cautioned that “it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL.”
It’s worth noting the tortuous path he took to get to even this point. Back at the beginning of the year, he famously compared the al Qaeda group that had taken over Fallujah, Iraq, to the “jayvee team” in Los Angeles Lakers’ uniforms.
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GW’s Coalition:
Afghanistan
Albania
Angola
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Colombia
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Georgia
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Japan
Kuwait
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Mongolia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Palau
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Rwanda
Singapore
Slovakia
Solomon Islands
South Korea
Spain
Tonga
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan
...just saying.
In the olden days of Vaudeville the stage managers had a special tool to extract losers from the stage.
Obama is one of those losers. GET THE HOOK!
Just the fact Ø is sticking with the ISIL meme over ISIS shows that nothing has changed - he is still the muslim brotherhood president, and is doing what he can to boost the caliphate while saying otherwise.
This from the same camel jockey that said al Qaeda had been routed.
Now he’s going to do the same thing to ISIS.
This guy puts a whole new face on stupid!
trending on twitter, not to make light of it but #SuicideAwarenessDay
#ObamaSpeech
“Okay I finished my homework, can I go out and play now?”
And how many countries did Bush 43 have in coalition for the invasion of Iraq?? - a pot full - all gave something - a few a lot. Bush 41 had a large coalition too.
Yup, THAT’s the hook.
I’d use a gaff.
NOT nice! :)
How in the name of all that is holy did this guy get elected to office not once but twice?
He still is intent on us being on the wrong side in Syria.
When it is a choice between two evils you should choose the lesser and not the greater evil.
Supporting the rebels in Syria will risk confrontation with Russia. Syria is not worth such a confrontation.
Obama will seek to strike Assad while claiming his intent is to weaken IS. Russia will see through such foolishness.
"White guilt." Everybody Loves Barry.
Color me racist, but I never liked him! Still don’t. As a matter of fact I hate him.
Pure fantasy when the President Zero claimed that Islam is not a violent religion.
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