Posted on 08/12/2014 11:33:45 PM PDT by Innovative
What the world saw last Thursday evening was an American president torn between personal preferences and cold reality. The result is a US that is once more moving towards greater military involvement in Iraq – but only reluctantly and incrementally.
Isis is more of a threat than al-Qaeda, which was and is mostly content to destroy. Isis has an agenda: to create a caliphate based on what it views as a return to pure Islam over swaths of the Middle East and beyond.
Above all, Mr Obama needs to articulate what the US is doing and why. He must explain why isolationism makes no more sense now than at other times in modern US history.
The president said people the world over look to America to lead. He is right. Now is one of those times.
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Like that’s gonna happen.
Who is this Obama they’re describing?
Obama couldn’t lead the Saucelito Gay Mens’ Choir off a Greyhound bus.
BULL EXREMENT!!! Americans love a fight. Paton had it right. but with Obama as a leader we would rather stay home and wash our hair.
They view him as he is - a pot smoking freak.
The problem is we have fewer and fewer real Americans every day.
Personal preference? Why would personal preference ever be a significant factor in these decisions. You do what is right. You do your duty. You follow the Constitution. You accommodate reality. You serve the interests of the greatest country in the history of the world. Following your personal whims is so far down the list of factors controlling decisions that it is almost never relevant.
Why would he even WANT to get off that bus? /s;)
Yep, Obama is the problem. Ever seen a coincidence, not be one?
George W. Bush told us this was going to be a long war ....
Few believed him and fewer still stood the course . They elected Obama instead .
Then why did Bush sign this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement
Good point, but this would be a tour of San Francisco’s steam and bath houses. Of course the choir would be anxious to get low, but Barry would be so busy blaming the Tea Party for climate change that all of the florists, baristas, decorators and fag choir whatnots by this time are all bitchy and peckish, so finally his press secretary forms a conga line and they all conga off the bus with Barry leading, as usual, from the rear and, as usual without the basic human decency to even give the guy ahead of him that he’s screwing a token reach around.
With ISIS, Obama is confronted by a stark portrait of the Islam that he has spent his entire administration trying to deny the existence of. He’s not simply hesitant to get involved in military action, he wants to avoid even acknowledging the nature of the enemy, because to do so would refute the picture of the world he has narcissistically pronounced. He can’t do the right thing, because that would mean admitting he was wrong, and narcissists can’t do that.
“Following your personal whims is so far down the list of factors controlling decisions that it is almost never relevant.”
Not to a narcissist. To a narcissist, it takes precedence over all other considerations.
LMAO... wonderful wording - and SO true.
When Bush an Cheney left, Iraq was a functioning country. We didn’t steal their oil, we eliminated a dictator, killed AQ in Iraq and had set up an elected government. There were a lot of happy purple fingers.
Yea of course there were problems yet to be solved.
But what the democrats did led by zer0 is just beyond belief. Look at the place.
I know that isn’t the reason we went in, but after we were there we did get them up an running, that in its self was pretty amazing.
The American people have the steel and the will. Unfortunately, those two items are totally lacking at the top. Obama, Kerry, Hagel....they can’t and don’t want to do anything.
It's been going on for fourteen-hundred years. Why should it stop just because Barry legend-in-his-own-mind Obama got elected?
You have summed it up pretty well. The democrats only “strategy” was to withdraw our troops. Nothing to bolster what was achieved over there with regards to getting the crazies out of power, and the jihad monkeys on the run. What we have now is an unstable country with Shia domination on one side under the heavy influence of the iranians, and the ISIS psychos on the other side.
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