Posted on 11/17/2015 1:46:59 PM PST by Kaslin
It's hard to believe we twice elected a president who refuses to defend the United States. I think people who used to dismiss our criticism of President Obama as extreme are now realizing just how naive they were.
On the morning before the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris, Obama was bragging that ISIS is contained. Are you kidding me? Even before the attacks everyone knew ISIS was on the march and couldn't possibly be contained. What have you done to contain them, by the way? And why are we even talking about "containment" instead of wholesale destruction of a known enemy? What is Obama's strategy?
He obviously has no strategy, because he refuses to recognize we're at war. The truth is that Obama is willfully blinded by his warped ideology, to which he has far more allegiance than the United States. No matter what evidence, facts or reality indicate, Obama will reject them if they don't conform to his worldview and his distorted perceptions.
He doesn't believe we are in a war against ISIS. He insists ISIS doesn't represent the religion of Islam, a religion for which he has obvious sympathy dating back to his early childhood. He won't even take ISIS' word for it.
Obama thinks that if we utter the term "Islam," "Islamist," or "Muslim" within 30 paragraphs of the term "terrorism," we are going to incite millions of otherwise peace-loving Muslims to violence.
Hmm. Does anyone, anywhere, any time think any Christians would respond in violence if you insulted them? I didn't think so.
Obama, John Kerry and everyone else associated with this recklessly confused administration refuse to say Islamists were responsible for the terrorist attacks in Boston. Now they are refusing to say they are responsible for Paris. They choose to see them as random acts of violence and "violent extremism."
All the Democratic presidential candidates are on the same page, intentionally ignorant -- no, actually deceitful about the connection to Islamism. The Paris attacks were performed by organized, violent, Jihadi, Islamic terrorists.
When asked about this bizarre blindness on the part of the president and now seemingly all Democrats, Hillary Clinton chose not to distance herself from the administration's insanity but to embrace it, even double down on it. She would not utter the name of that religion. We do not want to infuriate millions more Muslims.
Well, if 95 percent of Muslims are peaceful wouldn't they join us in condemning these murders by Islamists? Do they think for a second that rational people aren't associating global terrorism with their religion? Isn't the burden on peaceful Muslims to demonstrate to us how much they abhor what is going on in the name of their religion? The numbers of Islamist terrorist attacks around the globe are staggering. Every other day we're hearing about a new one, and it's almost always from Islamists, so to say there isn't something in that religion -- or how millions interpret it, anyway -- leading people to violence just doesn't square with our common sense and our daily observations.
If we don't identify our enemy we cannot develop a strategy to defeat it. But worse, if we don't even recognize we're in a war then we most certainly won't fight, much less win, the war.
Of course we don't believe all Muslims or even the majority are violent, but the overwhelming percentage of terrorist acts around the globe are being committed by people who claim the mantle of that religion, and ISIS undoubtedly does. It is hurting us not to be realistic about that.
We've already seen the life-and-death consequences of this administration's conscious paranoia about calling Islamism by its name. This politically correct insanity was responsible for our failure to investigate Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's known connections to violent Islamist ideas, and that failure arguably resulted in the deaths of thirteen people.
Obama's apparent non-strategy is to be patient and allow other nations to do what they will but to tiptoe softly so as not to offend Muslims everywhere, including his new bestie, the Iranian regime.
I'm not saying we shouldn't engage in the ideological battles and try to win hearts and minds, but we're not going to defeat ISIS without engaging them militarily -- aggressively. The more victories they achieve, by the way, the more recruits they acquire, so good luck with the sweet-talking.
Obama insists on treating ISIS as a criminal cartel to be prosecuted rather than an Islamist nation-state marching toward a global caliphate.
While leaders of France and the rest of the world heard this sobering wake-up call in Paris and have resolved to join together to obliterate ISIS in an "all-out war," Obama indignantly informs us that nothing he's doing will change. How dare anyone question his policy or blame him for mischaracterizing the strength of ISIS, having no strategy to defeat them and not even recognizing that they are a bona fide enemy.
Americans are trembling in rage and disbelief as they watch this dangerously narcissistic commander in chief show no passion for defending the United States but gush with emotion over the prospect of dumping 10,000 Syrian refugees in our land without proper security screening. We see photos of him with Russian thug President Vladimir Putin and think to ourselves, "I hope Putin will talk some sense into him about ISIS."
What a surreal time we are living in. What an age of presidential denial. God help us.
They may be realizing it but I rarely hear any of them admitting it. And many of them are still big fans of our "brave young president."
How much more delusional can these lunatics get?
I don’t think Obama is “blind” about anything...I think he knows exactly what he’s doing and has known for 7 years...
He is creating chaos, divisiveness, turmoil, and racial hatred to tear apart our country. He wants to reduce the USA to a third rate, third world country...and he is achieving his goal.
We have been placed in a perilous situation by apathy and laziness and greed...
It will take a good while to recover from the last 7 years have wrought on our country...
I don’t think they see it still. It’s part of the Black Lies Matter. As long as faux racial narratives infect news coverage much of the populace will continue to see Barry as a sympathetic figure. Criticisms are too close to the much-feared microaggression that would earn them racist credentials.
We didn't. Others did. We must get someone elected who will remove the plagues brought upon us because of what others did.
After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.
Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]
An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of: Tijera_Slim
Yes.
This information was available to the American people in 2008, and they still elected Obama to the Presidency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HqHSkYG-Y
Personally I think his aiding of the Syrian invasion is in obedience to Iran’s demands.
According to Walid Phares, Iran wants Syria.
Regardless, he know what he is doing; this is deliberate on his part. Obama is evil.
He isn’t blind at all. He’s got a vision and is leading the US to it.
It always gets me when someone says that we elected that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and besides he was not elected in landslides. Not in 2008 and not in 2012
He’s evil. He’s Satan’s spawn
John Kerry said “ there’s something different about what happened from Charlie hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that there was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of— not a legitimacy, but rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay they’re really angry because of this and that. This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate “
And there you have it this administration z legitimization rationale, find you deserved it,,anddd, apology to follow always.
I disagree.
Since January 2015, Obama’s RCP average approval rating has consistently stayed in the 45% to 46% range.
Compare that to George W. Bush, who was under 30% for most of 2008, and was under 40% for his last three years.
If Obama ran for a third term in 2016, I think he'd win.
Agree - 100%
4am bump!
Of course he’d win, because the idiots who voted for him twice. still haven’t learned a thing.
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