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ISIS Strategy a Moving Target for Obama Administration
ABC News ^ | September 5, 2014 | By ALI WEINBERG

Posted on 09/05/2014 3:05:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Since President Obama departed for Europe this week he and other administration officials have sent mixed messages about what exactly the mission is with regard to the Islamist extremist group ISIS.

The president, who spoke about the adminstration's ISIS objectives again today at the NATO conference in Wales, has laid out several different goals, ranging from completely destroying ISIS to shrinking its sphere of influence.

Below is a list of the various objectives against ISIS, which is also known as ISIL, that Obama and his team have laid out in the past week:

“Our objective is clear, and that is to degrade and destroy ISIL” – President Obama, NATO press conference, Sept. 3

“Our objective is to make sure that ISIL is not an ongoing threat to the region” – Obama, NATO press conference, Sept. 3

“We are going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL” – Obama, NATO press conference, Sept. 5

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: caliphate; failure; isis; obama

1 posted on 09/05/2014 3:05:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

same as the Methodist Church..........there is no evil


2 posted on 09/05/2014 3:08:10 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Imagine how Ronald Reagan would have responded. “I have ordered an immediate bombing offensive which will only finish when every member of ISIS is dead.” Now, contrast that with Obama. “We will degrade and destroy...” (Degrade?) Then the statements got weaker rather than stronger.


3 posted on 09/05/2014 3:11:58 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I see that the Marxist is using the Maxwell Smart method of intimidation...
Would you believe...


4 posted on 09/05/2014 3:12:48 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He’s still waiting for someone to tell him who’s ass to kick.


5 posted on 09/05/2014 3:15:15 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

“He’s still waiting for someone to tell him who’s ass to kick.”

That someone is probably the MSM, and they aren’t talking.


6 posted on 09/05/2014 3:18:51 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387
That someone is probably the MSM, and they aren’t talking.

VJ told them to STFU.

7 posted on 09/05/2014 3:20:06 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Poor Obama. None of the white presidents ever had to aim at a moving target.


8 posted on 09/05/2014 3:20:19 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Idiot.

Here’s a ready made strategy for the sand Nazis:

KILL THEM ALL WITH BOMBS.

Give the Air Force and Naval Aviators as much fun as they could possibly want. Go for it, boys. Target rich environment.

Notify the citizens of Raqqa that since ISIS is headquartered there, we’re flattening it on Tuesday. Then ARC LIGHT the bustards.

What’s the next city / armored column / etc. that needs attacking? Just flatten them with overwhelming loads of high explosives.

Sheesh. ISIS wants to wipe us out. Let’s do it to them before they do it to us.

This does not take a big room full of people. A president with any sort of sense would just launch the bombing campaign a few months ago, and then figure out a precise strategy for what MORE he’s going to do.


9 posted on 09/05/2014 3:21:12 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FReerepublic: Bring a FRiend!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s obvious it will take nothing less than a massive terrorist hit on the homeland to move 0bumble to decisive and effective action against ISIS, but likely not even then.


10 posted on 09/05/2014 3:27:15 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

fix and locate al Baghdadi and Arch Light him
Give no thought to collateral damage .
Turn him into pink mist and we are half way there .

If any Mil or intel leader has that info , act on it first
and let the WH know later . Don’t even bother to get their
permission . JUST DO IT


11 posted on 09/05/2014 3:29:55 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Uncle Miltie

Exactly. We have heavy long range bombers. Loose the B52s on them around the clock. If they take over a town, flatten it. Say loudly and continuously that this is the US policy no matter what sand covered rat hole they scurry into.

Tell whoever claims to be in charge in Syria, Iraq, and Libya to STFU or they’re next. Pound these savages into pink mist wherever they are. Use whatever weapons are necessary to achieve at goal, up to and including tactical nukes.

Tell their financiers that the CIA has been given permission to assassinate them and their entire families if we suspect they’ve given these baby raping monsters so much as a plugged nickel. Then do it. Tell those two faced bastards in Riyadh that this means them, too.

Have drones record the destruction and death we rain upon these savages so we can upload them to YouTube daily.

Enough of this sh** already.

L


12 posted on 09/05/2014 3:32:16 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

I’m getting really tired of islam. Makes one yearn for the simplicity of genocide.

Won’t. But islam makes you want bad things.


13 posted on 09/05/2014 3:35:47 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FReerepublic: Bring a FRiend!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Just to be clear, I’ll never promote killing them all.

But man, muslims’ mal-behavior sure does make a person think those kinds of dark thoughts before morality takes over and leads you back to the light.


14 posted on 09/05/2014 3:37:05 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FReerepublic: Bring a FRiend!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Just to be clear, I’ll never promote killing them all.”

No worries. I’ll do it for you.


15 posted on 09/05/2014 3:39:22 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I want El Cid myself


16 posted on 09/05/2014 3:41:15 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Just to be clear, I’ll never promote killing them all.

You only kill them until they beg for peace....then you bomb them a little more to make sure they get the message.

Whomever is left will be nice and peaceful.

17 posted on 09/05/2014 3:42:24 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: Uncle Miltie
This does not take a big room full of people. A president with any sort of sense would just launch the bombing campaign a few months ago, and then figure out a precise strategy for what MORE he’s going to do.

Pity that the guy in the White House is, by his own admission, allied with the head-choppers. You know the B-52 crews at Barksdale are just aching to go take care of business.

18 posted on 09/05/2014 3:49:35 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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