Obama Has No Middle East Strategy? Good! (Arrrgh)

Townhall.com ^ | September 3, 2014 | Ron Paul

[aquila48]

It would mean more than that. It would mean no trade whatsoever because as soon as you have trade with other countries you consequently create a national interest which you want to protect.

And even if you manage to isolate yourself from the rest of the world the rest of the world may not want you isolated - sort of what we did to Japan when they wanted to be left alone.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, dear. When people start to throw "neocons" around it's usually because they can't spell "boogieman". Apparently Paul considers strategy only to consist of military invasion, which it clearly does not. My complaint with 0bama is that apparently he hasn't considered any strategic alternatives, which is, after all, his job. It's been six months since the thing really got active. That's an awful lot of golfing when he could and should have been coalition-building, an activity that neither he nor his Secretary of State appear to have engaged in if we are to believe the latter's recent public statements. We really, really need to do better than that.

[DouglasKC]

Oh, I think I understand bammy's hesitation alright. He's lost. He and his cohorts in crime literally have no clue as to what they should do. I'll give them one small kudo for recognizing they are in over their heads and not rushing off and doing something stupid.

I need to make a correction to this assumption. I don't think he is lost at all. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's inflicting minimal damage via airstrikes to appease any generals who are still not loyal to him.. At the same time he pretends to dither which gives ISIS more time to grow. And the minimal airstrikes allow ISIS more recruitment propaganda. They are saying "See what America is doing...they are bombing us..we must fight brothers". But they're not really being affected at all.

[rdb3]

Oh, dear. When people start to throw "neocons" around it's usually because they can't spell "boogieman".

Yeah, and to me, it invalidates their arguments.

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.

[combat_boots]

Doing nothing after saying little implies tacit consent.