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Obama under fire for admitting no 'strategy yet' for ISIS in Syria [W:446]

Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

I admire his honesty, I hope he if as forthright about the strategy of other areas of our government.

You admire his absolute ignorance?

Being deceptively stupid is not an admirable trait.

I don't even comprehend how such fool could even be president of the United States....
 
Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

Militant Islamic groups have been emboldened by every US administration since Carter, at least, and you, the fellows that liked your post and all the rest of the right wingers on this board IGNORE this, are you aware of how scared terrorists were of GWB? Here's just one of several American be-headings under him! Stop being a partisan, and as such a part of what's WRONG with America, and be an American first and demand an end to insane US policy in the ME!!

Militants Behead American Hostage in Iraq
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A 26-year-old American from Pennsylvania was beheaded to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, and the militants who killed him videotaped the crime and posted it on a radical Islamic Web site.

Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search), believed to be behind the wave of homicide bombings in Iraq, may have either authorized the execution or actually performed the act himself, U.S. officials believe.

Militants Behead American Hostage in Iraq | Fox News


Thank you for your opinion. Using your words, I offer that you and those who think like you are what is wrong with America.

The M.E., by some unfortunate stroke of nature, happens to contain a product many countries in the world depend on for their survival. They would gladly, and peacefully be willing to purchase that product on a regular basis, while being perfectly willing to let some cultures and religous groups rape and kill children, mutilate women, and evicerate each other in their headlong rush to do what nature has been trying to do for some time; remove them from the face of the earth, as the evolutionary process is want to do. After all, that is their business to do.

The problem is, these cultures recognize the importance of their product, and want to bring the advanced nations to their knees. Rather than live in peace and enjoy the fruits of the benefits they can extract from their products, they chose to take on the world. Well, the advanced nations aren't going to let that happen. I think we are at that turning point.

Unfortunately, taking the Neville Chamberlains approach, as those with your think appear to want to do, fails to understand there is nothing to negotiate with. Socially warped societies nature is working to eliminate will never be a partner in anything but destruction. There is little doubt the current raise in terror and the emboldened nature of these bioforms today is the direct result of international weakness created by the current President of the United States.
 
Who is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces again? Is it Congress?

Oh so you're saying congress is so impotent and can do NOTHING? Wow what a defeatist attitude the GOP and you have.

The country is at stake remember? A real set of leaders would bring up suggestions on what to do if they thought the president incompetent and not just whine like ****ing cry-babies about it.
 
Partisan?? Of course I'm partisan! Do you really believe I'd want to identify with hopeless fools?

Well when you actually live in the U.S. instead of hiding out in Canada let us know.
 
Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

So since you put your faith in the GOP leadership, what is the GOP leadership in the house suggesting we do about ISIS?

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May I remind you, The President is the Commander In Chief, not the House of Representatives. But, as one of the people responsible for the current mess once said, "What difference does it make anyway." The President completely ignores every thing the Republicans say anyway.


Oh yeah, THEY ARE ON VACATION!

Oh yea, about that vacation thing... Did you happen to notice that the Democrats are on vacation as well?

Obviously the threat of ISIS and the middle east is SOOOOO GREAT the GOP leadership went on vacation instead.

It also appears that you don't think that ISIS is a real threat. Are you willing to bet American lives on that assumption? Apparently the President is. I guess we'll see. Once again, time will tell who is right and who is incompetent.

By the way, I here the Commander In Chief came off of vacation just in time to head out on a political fund raising campaign across America.

I find it interesting how smug some hypocrites can be. But then again... "What difference does it make anyway."


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Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

May I remind you, The President is the Commander In Chief, not the House of Representatives. But, as one of the people responsible for the current mess once said, "What difference does it make anyway." The President completely ignores every thing the Republicans say anyway.

May I remind you that in a time of crisis ALL our leaders are supposed to step up top the plate. I am on record as saying the president is incompetent, however, with that said, so is Congress.

Oh yea, about that vacation thing... Did you happen to notice that the Democrats are on vacation as well?

Yes, they both did, both sides of our so called LEADERSHIP went on vacation in a time of crisis. Obviously they don't think ISIS is a threat.

It also appears that you don't think that ISIS is a real threat. Are you willing to bet American lives on that assumption? Apparently the President is. I guess we'll see. Once again, time will tell who is right and who is incompetent.

You'll have to show where I don't think ISIS is a threat. In fact, if we didn't have such lazy posters and they actually read peopoe's comments instead of assuming things, we might have better discussions.

By the way, I here the Commander In Chief came off of vacation just in time to head out on a political fund raising campaign across America.

Yeah, so obviously the president and congress don't think ISIS is a threat. What do you think of the GOP and Dem leadership?

I find it interesting how smug some hypocrites can be.

You'll have to show where I am a hypocrite since I have criticized BOTH sides AND the president. You on the other hand, what do you have to say for the GOP leadership taking vacation. We know you think the president and the Dems doing it is wrong, so what about the GOP?

Cute pictures BTW, but quite childish and sophomoric on the debate scale. This isn't picture-land son.
 
here it is and for future reference, try googling "bush 15 supreme court unanimous decisions."

It's a National Review article slamming Obama, but it mentions that Bush had more defeats at the hands of the Supreme Court than Obama. The relevant text:

I don't know the answer, but just out of curiosity, how many of the so called Bush defeats at the hands of the Supreme Court involved the Bush administration supporting/protecting legislation passed by Congress, as is the responsibility of the Justice Department and how many involved executive action taken by the Bush administration?

I ask because President Bush seemed to take his Presidential responsibility to uphold the laws of the nation more seriously than the current President seems to do.
 
I don't know the answer, but just out of curiosity, how many of the so called Bush defeats at the hands of the Supreme Court involved the Bush administration supporting/protecting legislation passed by Congress, as is the responsibility of the Justice Department and how many involved executive action taken by the Bush administration?

I ask because President Bush seemed to take his Presidential responsibility to uphold the laws of the nation more seriously than the current President seems to do.

Probably because G.W. Bush wasn't trying to "fundamentally transform" the country.
 
Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

What? Continuing with the assertions but no link again?

Several comments there, which one do you need a link for?
 
Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

You are clueless. You are even including embassy level? You think we are causing terrorism by not acting as isolationists? You eventually need to learn what motivates fanatical Islamic terrorists. It is not US moves in the middle east. And what Russia and China say about it is not relevant as they have political motives of their own. It is radical ideology that motivates Islamic terrorists.....nothing more....nothing less. And once again, they do not represent any given nation much less the middle east. They represent a radical version of islam. They are not rational. Neither are you when you attempt to justify their terrorism by blaming it on the US.

Just wrong.
 
Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

You clearly don't know what a power vacuum is, apart from the one you may have at home,

I actually wish I had one at home.
 
OH,NO!! Does that mean everyone will now know I understand Hillary Clinton to be a lying and corrupt incompetent?

Kinda, but more likely that you think only liberal democrats are corrupt. So more like you'll be seen as gullible.
 
Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

Thank you for your opinion. Using your words, I offer that you and those who think like you are what is wrong with America.

The M.E., by some unfortunate stroke of nature, happens to contain a product many countries in the world depend on for their survival. They would gladly, and peacefully be willing to purchase that product on a regular basis, while being perfectly willing to let some cultures and religous groups rape and kill children, mutilate women, and evicerate each other in their headlong rush to do what nature has been trying to do for some time; remove them from the face of the earth, as the evolutionary process is want to do. After all, that is their business to do.

The problem is, these cultures recognize the importance of their product, and want to bring the advanced nations to their knees. Rather than live in peace and enjoy the fruits of the benefits they can extract from their products, they chose to take on the world. Well, the advanced nations aren't going to let that happen. I think we are at that turning point.

Unfortunately, taking the Neville Chamberlains approach, as those with your think appear to want to do, fails to understand there is nothing to negotiate with. Socially warped societies nature is working to eliminate will never be a partner in anything but destruction. There is little doubt the current raise in terror and the emboldened nature of these bioforms today is the direct result of international weakness created by the current President of the United States.

Another guy that thinks Middle East oil is up for Western exploitation!
 
Re: Obama has no strategy yet for dealing with ISIS.

That's what our foreign policy in the Middle East is
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Well when you actually live in the U.S. instead of hiding out in Canada let us know.

Thousands are dying because of an incompetent US president brought into power by dolts. This is a serious international concern.
 
Thousands are dying because of an incompetent US president brought into power by dolts. This is a serious international concern.

Don't worry we rid ourselves of this fool when he left office in January of 2009.
 
Don't worry we rid ourselves of this fool when he left office in January of 2009.

You lefties will be blaming President Bush for everything wrong with this country for the next thousand years.
 
You lefties will be blaming President Bush for everything wrong with this country for the next thousand years.

You righties will be blaming Obama for the next thousand years.
 
Thousands are dying because of an incompetent US president brought into power by dolts. This is a serious international concern.

Yeah so our congress should be in session right now trying to solve it. Instead they are on vacation and you think that is acceptable.
 
Thousands are dying because of an incompetent US president brought into power by dolts. This is a serious international concern.

I find it utterly laughable that you place any and all blame for chaos in Iraq squarely on Obama's (and ONLY Obama's) shoulders. Partisan hackery at its finest.
 
I was going by the written word, which is also on the OP.. It was not Obama who said "you come after Americans, we'll come after you". Obama Admin. Weighing Airstrikes in Syria: It does sound a very similar to what George Bush said though.

And there is nothing whatsoever about his foreign policy to like.

Like I said, Obama also repeated the same slogan, I heard him on the radio during the full speech (not just the 48 seconds you posted). See, going by the written word is not the whole truth. Newspapers and magazines and journalists have agendas. They select what they want to publish. They go by what will sound most scandalous and will contribute to more sales of the magazine or more web hits. If something is said that plays down the scandalous effect, they may very well omit it.

Weren't you a bit suspicious that a long exchange was rendered in your source by a 48-second clip???

And then, you say you went by the written word that was on the OP... wait a moment, have you checked what the source was, of the OP? FOX NEWS!!! LOL, yeah, they'd be doing their best to render accurately what Obama said, right? NOT!!!
 
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Obama is a lot less weak on terrorism than you guys imagine or try to portray him to be. Remember, he's the guy who gets the drones going and who got Bin Laden.

And since he got Bin Laden, things have gotten 10x worse. He got cocky and took his eye off the ball.
 
And since he got Bin Laden, things have gotten 10x worse. He got cocky and took his eye off the ball.

10x worse than what? What's your metric of "10x worse"?
 
And since he got Bin Laden, things have gotten 10x worse. He got cocky and took his eye off the ball.

There's been several drone attacks since Bin Laden and just recently they killed some other big guy.

The situation did get worse in Iraq and I do blame Obama for not having toughly negotiated an agreement to leave troops behind. But these are bigger issues, and that's one of the reasons why I said I don't agree with his foreign policy. When it's plain terrorism, however, he isn't exactly weak, and I do expect him to go after ISIS.
 
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