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How Obama Contained ISIS
Townhall.com ^ | November 15, 2015 | Kevin McCullough

Posted on 11/15/2015 7:50:32 AM PST by Kaslin

In reaction to the still developing terror attacks being carried out in the name of Islam, in Paris, on Friday night, New York Congressman Peter King told my radio audience, "Kevin (not only is this) an ISIS attack, but its coordinated at a level to take a large loss of life. This is the nightmare scenario we are constantly having to be prepared for from radicalized Islam But we knew ISIS was a threat a year before the president ever called them the JV team. And we have to kill them before they kill us."

Run the tape back to that morning on a nationally televised morning show, President Obama, "ISIL has been contained."

Former Police Commissioner for New York City was on my show just before Congressman King, "Kevin I don't care what you call it ISIS, Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Al Nusra We are at war with a radical element of Islam."

Run the tape back to President Obama's statement immediately following the attacks in Paris, "We must stop those who do these crimes." (You know crimes like the cat-burglars.)

Was there any reason why the president never mentioned Islam in his statement following the Paris attacks?

All day on Saturday the news channels were filled with reports of how those that authorities were arresting and investigating were plotting and planning from across borders in other countries. That nearly all of those involved in the attack were also from Syria seemed strangely under-reported.

Back to my show from Friday, Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch, "The United States is extremely vulnerable to attacks of these sorts. And ISIS believes they can now stand up against Western intelligence, and they believe that they have the ability to do so in order to pull off more large scale attacks."

He added, "The see that we do not have the will to take them out. So our anemic airstrikes have not only done little to weaken ISIS but it has actually emboldened them."

Also from my show, Jed Babbin former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, "The real question about this is how do western societies respond? What will we now do about this? The 'open borders' policy in Europe is now a dead letter. Will these nations now allow their citizenry to arm themselves? You know Kev, they don't have the second amendment over there. Those societies are on the verge of crumbling."

As I heard from the minds of these and others on Friday night discuss not only the facts of the situation in Paris, but more importantly how it affects the shape of freedoms for the future, I became again angry with an administration who never misses a chance to spike the ball just before fumbling on the four yard line.

The president couldn't wait to gloat over the kill shot of bin Laden (who was really mostly out of the picture by the time we finally got him.) He couldn't wait to golf when Jihadi John had beheaded an American journalist. He couldn't wait to goof on the families of our service men who lost their lives in Benghazi. And he was back to gloating when they believed they got the jihadi beheader this week.

The problem is he almost always has the wrong reaction to events he views almost entirely as political notches for his resume and seems rather monstrously oblivious to the biggest challenges we face.

For his own political reasons he has spent the duration of his time in office ignoring the sole source for the pain of every major terrorist attack from Sept 11th, 2001, until November 13th, 2015. His recklessness in doing so no doubt accounts for many more lives lost.

America should have closed its borders before France did. We should be sending relief support to Syria instead of bringing refugees to the USA. We should be fighting ISIS like the future of the free world depends upon it, but he still sees them as ironically non-Islamic, and mere criminals you know like petty thieves.

Meanwhile they plan and plot for their next opportunity to be "contained."

Which brings me back to what John Bolton ended my show by saying, "I'm genuinely afraid this isn't even close to being over. Paris demonstrates the increased reach and capacity of radicalized Islamic terror."

To which I'm sure the president would respond, "radicalized Islamic terror, whoa John, that's a bit harsh don't you think?"


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: globalsecurity; highcrimes; isis; islam; jihad; muslims; obama; resident0bama; terrorism; treason; worstpresidentever

1 posted on 11/15/2015 7:50:32 AM PST by Kaslin
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2 posted on 11/15/2015 7:54:35 AM PST by GregoTX (Calling Illegal Aliens "immigrants" is like calling burglars "house residents")
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To: Kaslin

The only “containing” that our president is doing is containing their attack on US soil until after he leaves office. I can see the headlines now, “We were safe under Obama”.


3 posted on 11/15/2015 7:59:27 AM PST by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: Cyclone59

We have never been more unsafe than we under this arrogant pos and that is factual.


4 posted on 11/15/2015 8:54:19 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Obama decided he had contained ISIS in his usual manner:
Behind closed doors, single-handedly, and a jar with a top within close reach.


5 posted on 11/15/2015 10:15:48 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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Same way he reduced health insurance premiums.

6 posted on 11/15/2015 10:42:47 AM PST by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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To: Kaslin

To which I’m sure the president would respond, “radicalized Islamic terror, whoa John, that’s a bit harsh don’t you think?”

Cue the dhimmiecrat debate statements less than 36 hours after the attack by islamic savages.


7 posted on 11/15/2015 10:54:59 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: Kaslin
Personally, I'm really sick of hearing analysis and critiques of Obama’s Syria and Iraq policy to combat terrorism and radical Islam.

It's pretty clear from the preponderance of evidence and the Presidents recent behavior that he has the same policy objectives as the terrorists.

Instead of trying to defeat the Radical Islamic Nationalist Jihadis he is using the Clinton Era Strategy of do nothing “Benign Neglect” to allow them to press forward without opposition and he is more than happy to let them pursue those objectives.

Furthermore, the President is also doing everything in his power to enable their conquests and everything in his power to protect the terrorists of ISIS and Iran and block any opposition to them.

It is indisputable that he has armed and trained many of them.

Obama has actively reversed all of the victories in the War On Terror that were won at great cost and sacrifice by our military and he has empowered the Islamic Jihadi movement world wide established Radical Islam and it's march to restore the Muslim Caliphate as the major force driving event son the world stage.

The momentum is on their side and Radical Islamic Jihadis are now seen as Osama Bin Laden’s Strong Horse and the United States is now seen as a weak and powerless horse who's time has past.

In effect, President Obama is on their side.

Obama promised fundamental change and the fundamentalist Radical Islam practiced by the Jihadi is just the kind of fundamental change talking about.

To think otherwise is to engage in self delusion

FWIW, we now know for and indisputable fact that Obama’s main political backer, sugar daddy and the real life James Bond villain who has publicly vowed to bring down the United States, George Soros, funded not just the organizers and the protesters of the Ferguson riots, but also flew out Hamas and Islamic Jihad affiliated Palestinian community organizers from the Gaza who are the architects and organizers of the Intifada and suicide bombings to Ferguson and paid them large sums of money to advise the Democrat's community organizer operatives on the in and outs of how incite serious violence, chaos and hatred in an urban conflict.

No way could these terrorists be granted visas and be allowed into the country without the direct intervention of the White House and it's public record that the President was in close collaboration with the leadership of the Ferguson protests and was a driving force in the establishment of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

No way could the President be unaware that there was collaboration with Palestinian terrorists using their unique skill set and operational knowledge learned from the experience of inciting several Intifadas to help drive the chaos in Ferguson.

Now President Obama wants to bring in a hundred thousand military age Syrian men who look more like the soldiers of a defeated and retreating army than oppressed refugees.

Only this time it's not George Soros who is funding their airfare and other travel costs, nor is Soros paying room, board and living expenses for these military age and military looking “Muslim Moderates”.

Instead, it's the American taxpayer footing the bill this time.

Pray God help us, because we are simply to stupid to help ourselves.

8 posted on 11/15/2015 11:01:21 AM PST by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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“The only “containing” that our president is doing is containing their attack on US soil until after he leaves office.”

It is hard to restrain the lone wolf’s like the UC Merced stabber, but the pros must appreciate how valuable a friend in the White House is.

My theory is that he “Contained” ISIS by insulating their biggest stronghold of Mosul from Syria (by supporting the recent capture of Sinjar, to cut the road), to protect Mosul from being overrun along with ISIS in Syria, if there is a collapse there.

The Russians are military professionals. They will deliberately cut off supplies to ISIS, and they will run out of ammo and collapse. They don’t manufacture any. When their ground supply from Turkey is completely cut, and Americans can no longer air drop re-supply that is “captured”, then their days are numbered.

If the Iraqi Government invites them in when Raqaa falls (as they were moving to do), the ISIS garrison in Mosul could break and run en masse. Most of them are local Sunnis, who could blend into the population overnight. Obama may have “contained” them from the threat of total collapse, in an area where he can maintain the lead of the fight, and continue with a Kabuki performance of powder puff fake attacks.

Once Syria is secured, the Russians will have much less interest in continuing to risk their expanded involvement, and could likely agree to leave Iraq to stew in civil war. The Iranians will still want to take Mosul, but it would be a bloodbath for them, and the Sunnis will be strongly motivated to fight them.

The old Ba’athists view the Russians as allies, and Russian intelligence can call many of them on their cell phones, on a first name basis.


9 posted on 11/15/2015 11:20:13 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Kaslin
[Art.] The problem is he almost always has the wrong reaction to events he views almost entirely as political notches for his resume and seems rather monstrously oblivious to the biggest challenges we face.

That is because the man has no humanity about him.

Misbegotten in bastardy, Bolshevism, and moral squalor by a lubricious African Mau-Mau and a Commie-hugging young white slut, raised in UMC anesthesia and a cloud of weed smoke, and handed along from one Marxist faculty to another, he is ideological and fixated on broken ideas of the 19th century's most famous failed man, Karl Marx, which makes him unreachable to most of humanity's ordinary concerns. He casts the coldest eye on the misery inflicted by his own policies on people he never cared about, and he despises with frigid unimpressibility the revered legacy of the People he professes to serve, but not very secretly loathes.

10 posted on 11/15/2015 12:25:10 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Cyclone59; Kaslin
I can see the headlines now, "We were safe under Obama".

That won't fly. What do you call Fort Hood? Chattanooga?

11 posted on 11/15/2015 12:31:37 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Cyclone59

I should have made myself more clear. The LIBTARD media would be making the claims of “we were safe while Obama was in office”. I predict that we will be hit only after he leaves office and the press will make that claim.


12 posted on 11/16/2015 3:01:35 PM PST by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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