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Obama Can’t Afford to Win in Iraq
Ricochet.com ^ | September 17, 2014 | Jon Gabriel

Posted on 09/17/2014 7:15:12 AM PDT by inkling

Obama does not want to win his new Iraq war. He can’t afford to. If the projection of American military power successfully solved the problem of Islamic terrorism, it would shatter Obama’s entire worldview.

A pragmatist would welcome victory regardless of its origins. Sadly, America is stuck with the most rigid ideologue ever to occupy the White House.

Obama adheres to a transnational progressive morality that has replaced “Good versus Evil” with “Weak versus Strong.” As the strongest nation on the planet, America is viewed not as its “last best hope,” but the chief among oppressors. He has been steeped in this intellectual environment from birth.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; obama

1 posted on 09/17/2014 7:15:12 AM PDT by inkling
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To: inkling

If the operation in Iraq is successful then Bush by extension is successful and the democrats will not let that happen. They will kill millions before they allow Bush to be seen as right.


2 posted on 09/17/2014 7:17:33 AM PDT by bad company
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To: inkling

He never won it. That was done by others. But he did lose it.


3 posted on 09/17/2014 7:17:45 AM PDT by boycott
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To: inkling

Winning a war would take the shine right off that Nobel Peace Prize.


4 posted on 09/17/2014 7:19:42 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: bad company

I find it amazing what liberals are willing to “pay” for their self-righteousness.


5 posted on 09/17/2014 7:20:43 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: inkling

You have to really twist the enemies’ arm to win. But most of what most recent politicians care about is having some missiles or drones to say, “at least I did something!”


6 posted on 09/17/2014 7:21:44 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: MrB
I find it amazing what liberals are willing to “pay” for their self-righteousness.

Everything you've got.

7 posted on 09/17/2014 7:24:04 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Paine in the Neck

They’d prefer that someone else always pay for their sense of self-righteousness,

but haven’t you seen them justifying having to pay more for insurance as their price for it?

And they’d be willing to have a city a day attacked,
just to say that they are “tolerant” of non-Christian religions.


8 posted on 09/17/2014 7:27:06 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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9 posted on 09/17/2014 7:29:17 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: MrB
And they’d be willing to have a city a day attacked, just to say that they are “tolerant” of non-Christian religions.

Obama said we can absorb those hits.

10 posted on 09/17/2014 7:29:37 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: inkling
digital representation of this purposefully Endless QUAGMIRE


11 posted on 09/17/2014 7:32:51 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: bad company
Obama does not WANT America to win ANYTHING, much less ever beat a Muslim country, or a Muslim culture.
12 posted on 09/17/2014 7:36:46 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: inkling

Pretty much how I feel about it.

He cannot bring himself to do the right thing. Because the right thing is something W. would have done.


13 posted on 09/17/2014 7:38:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MeshugeMikey

Straight out of “1984”


14 posted on 09/17/2014 7:38:37 AM PDT by expat2
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To: Paine in the Neck

Ironically for Obama, destruction of DC, LA, Chicago and Philadelphia would remove a lot of libs from the gene pool and make the US a much more conservative country.


15 posted on 09/17/2014 7:41:53 AM PDT by expat2
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To: expat2
The President or one of his hacks will soon start using the word Dawdle.....in relationship to THIS mess as well


16 posted on 09/17/2014 7:46:26 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: inkling
"Like it of not, American still has the strongest military in the world"

Didn't President Hussein Obama say this in 2009? I could not find it when I googled the phrase, but I think I heard him say it.

17 posted on 09/17/2014 7:47:05 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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