Posted on 09/14/2014 10:41:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Barack Obama said Wednesday night the United States is going to war “to degrade and ultimately destroy” the group known as the Islamic State.
Obama is only going to deplete our military resources and accomplish nothing of consequence in the destruction of ISIS.
This will be a disaster. If we have another president, he will have a hell of a time.
Regardless...................
THEY are at war with the rest of the human race.
FYI—that means US too!
Oil smuggling, theft, extortion: How ISIS earns $3M a day
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3203962/posts
Obama never Gave War a Chance in Iraq and even though many military leaders advised him against abandoning the people of Iraq, Obama continued with the Status of Forces Agreement that he and other liberals demanded be signed in 2008.
Iraq will be the only war where we had a clear a decisive victory under one Commander in Chief, but imedadiatly squandered that victory under the next president.
It would be the equivalent of World War II with FDR dying just as we were on the verge of victory and Truman the handing victory to Japan and Germany.
Obama did just that in Iraq, as the people of Iraq were happy to be liberated by President Bush, but Obama turned a land of peace, into even more war.
If you’re going to defeat the enemy you need naval, air and Marine forces to transport, degrade and establish bridgeheads. However you need your Army to take and hold ground. These truisms have held from WWII to the present. Air alone just trashes things up and, ultimately, makes the civilians angry.
The boy-king will have to turn in his precious Nobel prize, won’t he?
0bama has to do something that he is repulsed by, being in charge of the greatest bunch of guys and gals in the world.
0bama must try to be something that he is not, a man.
ISIS has no ability to attack America? Unlike Al Qaeda, ISIS is an oil state with billions in revenue. This leftist is on crack.
A small battlefield nuke strategically placed would end this thing for a long time.
Although both Republicans and Democrats have made many mistakes with foreign policy, after reading his columns and “wisdom” over the years, Chapman might be the near the bottom of the list of pundits whose advice I would take...on anything. He gets everything wrong.
Eliminating 10% of ISIS is insufficient. We have to aim for closer to 100%.
I was referring to and quoting Obama... and I agree with you about Chapman.
...going to war “to degrade and ultimately destroy”...reluctantly.
Brave Congress.
NEVER!
I’ll have to put him on my Seth Borenstein list after reading this. He doesn’t have the guts to mention the “K” word— “Kurds.” Without what they have done over the past month, we’d be in total collapse. In spite of himself, Obama gave them just enough help.
Agreed. The Kurds require help.
They were rock solid allies and friends during the Iraq war. No matter what this leftist, mush headed writer thinks, you do not leave your friends swinging in the breeze.
Nice people. A little bit close until they get to know you, but they’ll give you the shirt off their back.
People conveniently forget that Bush stated several goals, WMD being only one. Shooting at our planes was enough reason to take Saddam down. The UN had 17 resolutions against Saddam and voted strongly in favor of Bush taking action.
In addition, if Saddam had remained he would have covertly re constituted his WMD program. But fools think otherwise.
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