Posted on 09/09/2014 10:56:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
I think he is making a preemptive strike - on Congress. He doesn’t want a genuine war on ISIS, professionally and effectively planned, and with a chance of succeeding, because he actually doesn’t want them defeated. They’re his boys, the ones who most radically hate the West. But at the same time, he can’t go on looking making the latter too obvious by doing nothing.
So I think he’s trying to keep Congress and even the generals out of the loop by announcing at the very start that he will decide what to do, no input from anybody, and then going ahead with a few symbolic feints or even empowering other groups (such as the Syrian “rebels” that were the source of ISIS) with weapons and materiel that will eventually end up in the hands of ISIS and even strengthen it.
This is a very dangerous move, IMHO.
or the brains
general valjar must have had 10,000 monkeys typing up strategy for weeks now
can’t wait for the meaningless platitudes
The Tyrant is saying that HE WILL DECIDE if IS will be
an Enemy or invited to Rule Americans in Obama’s
Moslem America.
NOTICE THAT HE CONTINUALLY REFERS TO IT AS ISIL! (shouting!)
This is his signal to the Islamists that in his eyes, Israel does not exist.
ISIL includes the land of Israel.
This is no small matter, and no one EVER calls him on it.
It was my first thought too...
Although, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the "speech" was riddled with cryptic instructions on which targets to attack....
Yes, I really mean that...
I expect Obama to try to “degrade” ISIS on the cheap. He will provide inadequate forces to do the job & try to micromanage the generals (remember LBJ), which means our troops & our allies will be in unnecessary danger. We could lose/waste precious US lives under the “leadership” of our doofus-in-chief. Planes could be shot down. Hostages taken & beheaded. The headlines from the war will be bad.
Congress would be smart to let this fool make a bigger fool of himself, by himself. They can't stop him, but they don't have to endorse him. If they formally support this action, Obama will blame THEM when it goes bad; & it will go bad - see his past wisdom on Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, & Iraq for reference.
Of course. This is the guy who released 5 top notch Taliban generals from Gitmo whose capture was by American blood.
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