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The Collapsing Obama Doctrine
Wall Street Journal ^ | 6/17/14 | Dick and Liz Cheney

Posted on 06/17/2014 4:53:18 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Edited on 06/17/2014 8:01:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]


Cheney re Obama: Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama's past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. "If a J.V. team puts on Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant" (January 2014). "[C]ore al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated" (August 2013). "So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding" (September 2011).

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is "ending" the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come crashing into reality. Watching the black-clad ISIS jihadists take territory once secured by American blood is final proof, if any were needed, that America's enemies are not "decimated." They are emboldened and on the march.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alqaedaspring; bigtime; cheney; chickenhawk; dickcheney; failure; impeach; lizcheney; nationalsecurityfail; obama; obamadoctrine; obamafail; obamaforeignpolicy; proislamist; suck; treason
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To: eyedigress

The Obama Doctrine?

That’s an easy one.....on the green in two

I crack myself up sometimes.


21 posted on 06/17/2014 5:19:37 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
Americans are more concerned about their free abortions, free birth control, homosexual marriage, and other government freebies than they are about finishing off some terrorist network.

I really miss the days when our government and electorate were comprised of adults.

22 posted on 06/17/2014 5:26:20 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: DoughtyOne
Well, I do keep making the same mistake of assuming that key republicans don't identify more closely with the ruling elite of the other party than they do with common Americans most impacted by their policies.

But I have to guess that Bush has really strong feelings about what he sees Obama doing with what he and the US military accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe not.

23 posted on 06/17/2014 5:26:53 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: SoFloFreeper

“American freedom will not be secured by empty threats, meaningless red lines, leading from behind, appeasing our enemies, abandoning our allies, or apologizing for our great nation—all hallmarks to date of the Obama doctrine.”

Indeed, an epic and very dangerous failure.


24 posted on 06/17/2014 5:28:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
The 0bama Doctrine:
Undermine and Sabotage America to reduce the nation to an ordinary country, no better than any other.
From what I see it's working pretty well.

25 posted on 06/17/2014 5:30:31 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Will the media mock Obama’s premature gloating and incorrect evaluations the way they mocked Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” sign? Of course not.


Despite Bush’s note being correct within context, and Obama’s being a crafted lie - even to the extent of trying to obscure an attack on a US mission resulting in the murder of an Ambassador.


26 posted on 06/17/2014 5:35:40 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SoFloFreeper

To know Obama, one needs to know his puppet masters.


28 posted on 06/17/2014 5:38:12 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: SoFloFreeper
Cheney just kicked some skinny Kenyan crypto-muslim communist ass.

Big time.

This "Administration" is a joke, but the joke, unfortunately, is on us.

29 posted on 06/17/2014 5:40:04 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Rope A Dope Doctrine


30 posted on 06/17/2014 5:44:11 PM PDT by WildWeasel
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obama has been an absolute catastrophe for America.


31 posted on 06/17/2014 5:45:05 PM PDT by Larry381 (The Media Have Become the Enemy of the American people...Pat Caddell)
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To: WildWeasel

For the Clown Prince: arrest, imprisoned, water-boarded and exiled. Justice. One can dream...


32 posted on 06/17/2014 5:46:10 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Long Live Cheney


33 posted on 06/17/2014 5:49:49 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Rome2000

Bookmarking.


34 posted on 06/17/2014 5:50:43 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: skeeter
Dick Cheney has no credibility on this issue. His own boss was so thoroughly discredited on these stupid military campaigns by 2008 that the people of this country elected a Kenyan exchange student to replace him.

I wish all of these big-government globalists would get the hell out of the public eye for good.

35 posted on 06/17/2014 5:51:24 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Obama Doctrine is to facilitate the creation of the revived Islamic Caliphate, using the resources of the American government which he leads.

Everything he has done since 1/20/2009 has fit a pattern of enabling radical Islam to gain power, prestige and territory, all under the guise of fighting the War on Terror.

The only terrorists he sees is people like us, that love this country and that are wise to him and his ilk.

He has proven his traitorous intent toward this nation.The “trade” of the five Taliban prisoners was another prime example of his perfidy.

For ISIS to have this kind of success is only because he will refuse to fight them. Because he wants them to succeed.

At the very least we should be bombing the convoys of our former equipment that ISIS is spiriting away to Syria. But hey, why do that when he wanted to arm the rebels fighting Assad anyway. Now ISI has hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and gold, trucks, Humvees, ammo, weapons, and tanks that can used for Al Qaeda.

He folded on Syria, he folded on Iran, and he will do nothing about ISIS. All part of the plan.

When are people going to wake up?


36 posted on 06/17/2014 5:52:40 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: skeeter

I think Bush is smart enough to shut up....we would be hearing the Choir sing its rendition of “ Bush’s Fault” in B flat if he said anything


37 posted on 06/17/2014 5:52:47 PM PDT by woofie
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To: SoFloFreeper
Great summation, not that it was anything we didn't already know, but the great 48(percent) will not read it or, if they do, comprehend it. Idealism and stupidity runs deep in this regime. When it comes to Obama, I am feeling like I am dealing with the drug addled friends that I ran with in the 60s/70s that never grew up. He has no clue.

I beg to differ with so many folks that think he is smart, he is far from smart, as I am sure his handlers have found out.
38 posted on 06/17/2014 5:59:33 PM PDT by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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To: Rome2000

Excerpt-only copyright restrictions apply down thread as well. Thanks.


39 posted on 06/17/2014 6:01:31 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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To: SoFloFreeper

Thank you, thank you, thank you! God bless you, Dick Cheney, for calling an assclown an assclown. Glad somebody has the guts.

Dear libtards. We are conservatives. We don’t hate Obama because he is black. We don’t CARE what color he is. The only thing that matters is that he hates this country and is trying to destroy it in his image.

We hate him for that. And we hate you for giving him the power to do it. I can’t speak for every conservative, but that’s the way this one sees it. PERIOD


40 posted on 06/17/2014 6:05:06 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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