Posted on 02/18/2016 5:33:04 AM PST by detective
Despite the growing threat from the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Libya, the Obama administration has turned down a U.S. military plan for an assault on ISIS's regional hub there, three defense officials told The Daily Beast.
In recent weeks, the U.S. military-led by its Africa and Special Operations Commands-have pushed for more airstrikes and the deployment of elite troops, particularly in the city of Sirte. The hometown of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the city is now under ISIS control and serving as a regional epicenter for the terror group.
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Uh, why would he bomb his friends?
I guess no one here read the memo. Attacking our enemies makes them angry at us, and makes them want to kill us even deader than they normally would...
Meanwhile, the ragheads are complaining that the Russians cluster bombing of Raqqa is killing innocents and all that ...
hussein won’t attack his fellow muslims.
the black pacifist will never make war
He wouldn’t bomb them while two former seals were lasing their mortar positions, so why would he start now?
Except on white, Conservative, (especially Christian) Americans.
My bad. seals=SEALs
Valerie Jarrett told him not to.
Our Imam in Chief has also left the main ISIS headquarters building in Raqqa, along with the Islamic courthouse down the street untouched.
I have and idea.
Why don’t the hundreds of thousands of young men who fled Libya for Europe go back there and fight for their own damn country ... instead of mooch off of Westerners and expect them to fight all their dirty little religious civil wars for them?
Or is it not worth fighting for?
If it is the latter, then why the hell do we need to be involved at all?
Good thing we liberated Libya.
It's all part of Traitorobama's "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" policy, to which Traitorcongress has given its bend-over-and-spread-their-cheeks support.
So, why aren’t the Russians turning it to dust?
My bad, wrong country.
In the war between western civilization and Islamic terror, Obama is not on our side. Of course he won’t attack ISIS or Al Qaeda. Did anyone sensible expect something different?
He and Clinton assassinated Khaddaffi, on the hope the Muslim Brotherhood would take over. What they wound up doing is turning Libya into a jihadi wasteland.
It would seem odd for Zer0 to attack the White House.
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