Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas"

realclearpolitics ^ | 7/6/15 | i schwarz

[bestintxas]

After consulting with military leaders at the Pentagon this afternoon President Obama held a press conference on the growing threat of ISIS. President Obama declared the United States "will never be at war with Islam." Obama also said, "ideologies are not defeated with guns but better ideas."

"We'll constantly reaffirm through words and deeds that we will never be at war with Islam," President Obama said Monday afternoon. "We are fighting terrorists who distort islam and its victims are mostly Muslims."

"This challenge of countering violent extremism is not simply a military effort," the president said. "Ideologies are not defeated with guns but better ideas and more attracting and more compelling vision."

PRESIDENT OBAMA: This broader challenge of countering violent extremism is not simply a military effort. Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas and more attractive and more compelling vision. So the United States will continue to do our part by continuing to counter ISIL's hateful propaganda, especially online. We'll constantly reaffirm through words and deeds that we will never be at war with Islam. We are fighting terrorists who distort islam and its victims are mostly Muslims.

We're also going to partner with Muslim communities as they seek the prosperity and dignity they observe. And we're going to expect those communities to step up in terms of pushing back as hard as they can in conjunction with other people of good will against these hateful ideologies, particularly when it comes to what we're teaching young people.

[Norm Lenhart]

We lost when ‘our own’ people gave Barry’s enablers a blank check to assist him. And thats just what happened.

[tacticalogic]

So why does he brag about killing Bin Laden?

[dfwgator]

Not a fair comparison, Neville Chamberlain loved his country, and deep down knew war with Nazi Germany was inevitable, but that Britain was nowhere near close to being ready for war in 1938.

[BerniesFriend]

Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas"

I know this is a fictitious character, but Brad Pitt's "Inglorious Basterds" character's words in this scene really sums up how we fight evil in our time..

"Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the g###amn Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a f#####' air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why any and every son of a bitch we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die."

[Fungi]

Criminally and "impeachably" stupid.

[LeoWindhorse]

this is why the men that surround him there at that podium should relieve him of his command . This is not going to get any better and we have both and country and the world as we know it to lose , if we stay the present course .

[pluvmantelo]

President Platitude shares his wisdom once again.

[thesharkboy]

The atom bomb was an idea. At first, anyway.

[Sirius Lee]

So why does he brag about killing Bin Laden?

Exactly. Why didn't homobama just talk bin laden into fag marrying him and chilling out?

[BitWielder1]

Is this the same guy who said “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”?
He apparently only finds that expression appropriate against Republicans, but language too rude against Jihadists.

Since ISIS has a lot of guns, methinks we should bring even more guns.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

the dude has reality issues

[HangnJudge]

Islam is a frozen Vision

Mohammad was the last Prophet
There will be none after him
The Koran is a complete work
It cannot be added to or modified

Islam cannot be reasoned with
Islam cannot be countered by “Ideology”

[hondact200]

America has the smartest Harvard educated jackass that serves as the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Washington DC. He is so smart that even jackasses around the world are asking for the name of jackass to be changed, so they are no longer offended by being called a jackass. Idealogies are not defeated with guns but better ideas! Really how assinine! Harvard needs to close its doors permamnetly

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> “We'll constantly reaffirm through words and deeds that we will never be at war with Islam”

Past deeds didn't do squat with these moooooslems. They still think to conquer the West (esp. US, if they can)

[dinodino]

Obama is truly an idiot.

[rockrr]

"We'll constantly reaffirm through words and deeds that we will never be at war with Islam," President Obama said Monday afternoon.

Even though they are at war with us. Øbongo you ignorant putz.

[PROCON]

Wait a minute.....so what’s the greater threat?.....ISIS or global warming?

[CrazyIvan]

Maybe he’ll listen to someone from his side.

“Every Communist must grasp the truth; “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” “
Mao Tse Tung

[RansomOttawa]

Not a fair comparison, Neville Chamberlain loved his country, and deep down knew war with Nazi Germany was inevitable, but that Britain was nowhere near close to being ready for war in 1938.

And yet, history remembers him as a naive idealist who thought that pathologically evil people could be reasoned with.

Just like you-know-who.

[Sir Napsalot]

After visiting Pentagon, too.

How about we rename it to “Dept of Better Ideas”???!!??!!

Tiny footnote - Department of bestest ideas of killing our enemies first.