Here's what we did not see after 9/11:
Posted on 09/13/2014 4:55:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I was overseas when Obama gave his momentous Isis address, but figured I could pretty much guess how things would go. Despite being the greatest orator of the last thousand years, he's a complete bust at selling anything but himself, as comprehensively demonstrated in his first couple of years: see his rhetorical efforts on behalf of ObamaCare, or Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley, or Chicago's Olympics bid. When it comes to war, he suffers from an additional burden: before he can persuade anybody else, he first has to persuade himself. And he can't do it. So he gave the usual listless performance of a surly actor who resents the part he's been given. It's not just the accumulation of equivocations and qualifications - the "Islamic State" is not Islamic, our war with them is not a war, there'll be no boots on the ground except the exotic footwear of a vast unspecified coalition - but something more basic: What he mainly communicates is that he doesn't mean it.
That's what the jihadist militias now in control of Tripoli understood about his "leading from behind". That's what Putin grasped about Obama's "red line" in Syria. And that's what any Isis member who took time out of his beheading schedule to watch the President on CNN International will have taken away from this week's speech.
As for the "coalition", they seem to intuit that, with a leader leading from this far behind, you want to stand even further back. From mellifluously named Jacaranda FM:
Turkey refuses to allow a US-led coalition to attack jihadists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria from its air bases, nor will it take part in combat operations against militants, a government official told AFP Thursday.
So much for the only Nato member to border Isis.
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Here's what we did not see after 9/11:
-— So he gave the usual listless performance of a surly actor who resents the part he’s been given. -—
We have a winner.
It’s easier to bump your posts than to compose my own.
Thanks.
They've been trying to hold Christian ground against a 1400 year Mohammedan onslaught. These people are poor and brave.
Why is it we are the ones that always have to go over there and ‘save’ everyone ...
They don't have the resources to defend themselves. Christians have been aiding these Christians for centuries. See Crusades I-VII.
Amen....... right on
“Turkey refuses to allow a US-led coalition to attack jihadists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria from its air bases, nor will it take part in combat operations against militants, a government official told AFP Thursday.”.
Pretty much tells you what side they are on, doesn’t it?
Well maybe it’s time they learn to defend themselves a little better after, I don’t know a 7 centuries or something?
“I almost feel bad for President Obama to see him subjected to such scorn and ridicule.”.....
I’m glad you stuck that word “almost” in there.
I couldn’t feel sorry if he were tarred, feathered and carried out on a rail.
“What a national embarrassment. It will take this country decades to regain respect in this world.”.....
I agree with the “national embarrassment” statement but when it comes to getting world wide respect once again, it will only take a commander in chief with the intestinal fortitude to wipe ISIS off the face of the earth in short order. It can be done and we have the abilities but right now we are missing one major element, a leader who will do it.
We no longer vanquish our enemies. Until we start to do so again we will never win another war. A battle victory here and there is the best our current fighting style can achieve.
“I am truly ashamed of my country for electing such an incompetent leader.”
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Incompetence IS NOT the main problem! If I know that I have earned the wrath of my enemy and he is deciding who to send to kill me I will be praying that he picks someone who is incompetent for the task. Do I need to say more?
Yeah, almost...but not quite, hahahahahahaha!
I saw that figure on Fox the other day in a news report. 38 Coaltion members for HW Bush to free Kwait and 48 coalition members for W to take out Saddam Hussein. Plus W also got big majority of congress to authorize the military action and majority of the Senate to vote YES some are the leaders of the D party today, like Kerry and Hillary.
Wait! Is that the FLOTUS? Her outfit’s definitely gone Ka-BOOM!
My point was to tweak my liberal acquaintance nose by showing him that Obama was not and is not able to accomplish what Bush did when he was President.
Yet more More literary-”Star of the Morning.”
Thank you for the ping.
A bemused American people elected a clown, an idiot, a glib negroid buffoon. Now we must pay the piper for the inept selection of underlings, lack of intelligent foresight, poor impulse control, a deep belief that money just arrives, that telephones are free and that he has a deep belief that “ he be a genius.” Even God may have abandoned us.
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