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The Cowardice of the Left Gave Us the Islamic State
Townhall.com ^ | August 12, 2014 | Michael Schaus

Posted on 08/12/2014 5:44:15 PM PDT by Kaslin

It must be exhausting for Barrack Obama. I sometimes feel worn down just reading about all the events going on in the world – I can’t even imagine how tiresome it must be, trying to avoid leadership on all those issues. Lucky for our Vacationer in Chief, he’s found a way… Apparently a healthy mix of golf and swimming is exactly what is needed to distract yourself from the chaos in the Middle East. And, to be fair, this genocidal chaos in Iraq is not completely the fault of a Nobel Laureate who plays the American President on TV.

The terrorist group ISIL doesn’t exist merely because a “lead from behind” US President has traded political expediency for international stability. They can also thank the appeasement mentality of Neville-Chamberlin-invertebrates throughout the world for their recent blitzkrieg of success. In fact, it is the West’s pervasive dedication to avoiding conviction that seems to embolden the murderously convicted terrorists in the Middle East.

The UN is stepping up their actions to stem the budding holocaust in Iraq: they’re writing a nasty-gram. (I hope they type the really harsh portions in all caps.) Seriously. The “greatest world power” in human history has become so weighted down with cowardice, ambivalence, and bureaucracy that – in the face of outright slaughter – the most they can muster is a few eloquent phrases and a sanction or two.

The unofficial spin doctors for Team Obama (AKA: MSNBC) have also joined the blissful bandwagon of intellectual bankruptcy. Michael Eric Dyson referred to ISIL as “so-called” terrorists… Right. The guys that thought Al Qaeda was a little too “warm and fuzzy” are only alleged terrorists. The fact that they behead, torture, crucify, rape, enslave, amputate, stone, and murder men, women, and children (in an effort to instill fear among their enemies) doesn’t actually mean anything, right?

Of course, if you’re looking for truly unhinged abandonment of reality, just glance to your left. The anti-war group, Code Pink, was spotted protesting America’s (limited) involvement in defending innocent Kurdish civilians. Yeah… The Code Pink hacks are so opposed to violence, war, and death that they are upset with Obama for dropping some bombs on Islamic fighters who are dedicated to genocide and slaughter. It makes perfect sense, right?

Of course, our Avoider in Chief isn’t exactly helping things. If his obsessive focus on golfing gives you the feeling that he’s not engaged, it’s probably a safe assumption that our enemies get the same general impression. The disinterested President of Martha’s Vineyard America was so ambivalent toward the killing, ethnic cleansing, and chaos in the Middle East that he initially couldn’t even be bothered with pledging armed support for pro-American Kurdish forces.

I mean, heck, do we have an aversion to easy decisions? Conservatives rightly lampooned the President when he insinuated that killing Osama Bin Laden was a “tough” decision; but the decision to give aid to the surrounded Kurdish civilians should have been a no-brainer. Why wouldn’t we do everything we can to help a bunch of pro-American, oil-rich, democratic Iraqis? You would think that a Nobel Peace Prize winner would be mildly more interested in stemming the wanton barbarism of ISIL, especially when it threatens loyal champions of democracy and freedom.

But… If it’s an apparently easy decision, it pretty much goes without saying that our current administration will mess it up. Heck, even when the right call is made, their execution manages to reach depths of incompetence generally reserved for preschool baseball games. After the administration finally stumbled into helping the Kurds, airdrops of food, water, and other provisions were ordered to the area. They have, however, had little effect thus far because “it was dropped from 15,000ft without parachutes and exploded on impact.

Really? No parachutes? Well, no wonder our illustrious “leader” underestimated the ISIL threat in Iraq. With this group of military geniuses (who apparently were never taught the basics of Newton’s law of universal gravitation), I’m halfway surprised things aren’t worse. Was Joe Biden in charge of these airdrops?

Terrorists are doing their best to perpetrate a holocaust in the Middle East; MSNBC hacks (and intellectually bankrupt Code Pink agitators) are running cover for the incompetent, and disinterested, Golfer in Chief; the UN is drafting another ignorable resolution; and American liberals are busy trying to spread the blame around (they are redistributionists)… Roosevelt once explained that we should “speak softly, and carry a big stick.” Unfortunately, most of the Western World has adopted only the first half of this proverb. So, really, is it any surprise that a bunch of radical butchers think they can get away with a little world domination?

Also, someone should probably explain to Obama that golf clubs don’t count as sticks.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 0bamaadmin; foreignaffairs; foreignpolicy; iraq; kurdistan; kurds; marthasvineyard; michaelschaus; middleeast; pmsnbc; uselessnations; yazidi; yazidis
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To: papertyger

Thanks, papertyger! Some women are really offended BY THE FACTS. FReeper women are GREAT, but unfortunately they do not represent their gender overall!


41 posted on 08/12/2014 6:48:10 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I asked your questions and your stupid answers betrayed your obviously hate for women.

I understand how you cannot possibly tolerate a woman who doesn’t bow at your feet,,,too damn bad for you!

BTW,,why are you so weak you feel the need to reply? Ego in the way? Geee,,what a surprise. You are the poster child that Dems point to to prove conservatives hate women,,,

be proud,,wear it out loud!


42 posted on 08/12/2014 6:48:16 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Freeper women are great except when they don’t agree with you,,that’s really what you mean. Be honest.


43 posted on 08/12/2014 6:49:08 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Mears

You are correct and anyone who knows history, knows that


44 posted on 08/12/2014 6:49:21 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: austinaero

You are welcome


45 posted on 08/12/2014 6:50:53 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Bump


46 posted on 08/12/2014 6:51:01 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: austinaero

Well, I’m in the dog house so I had to throw them a bone.


47 posted on 08/12/2014 6:52:09 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: rdcbn

Code Pink must be big fans of ISIS.


48 posted on 08/12/2014 7:05:12 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Just a hint (not that you deserve one, but clearly are in need of one).

Conservative women are not the same as women on the left. You need to learn to RESPECT the difference.


49 posted on 08/12/2014 7:05:56 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: austinaero

So, you hate conservative men?


50 posted on 08/12/2014 7:14:36 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: CivilWarBrewing
elect a female president.....
51 posted on 08/12/2014 7:17:18 PM PDT by B212
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To: realcleanguy

“.... Or maybe, just maybe, this was Obama’s goal all along to set the world on Islamic fire”

This is what I truly believe


52 posted on 08/12/2014 7:18:30 PM PDT by daku
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To: daku

Yep, I think we’re right on this one


53 posted on 08/12/2014 7:24:08 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: windcliff
Code Pink must be big fans of ISIS.


Oh, you bet they are.

Hamas too.

Any Muslim Brotherhood affiliated group, in fact.

Code Pink was on the ground in Egypt community organizing with Stanley Greenberg and a bunch of other Democrat operatives to overthrow Mubarak after Obama’s Arab Spring speech.

54 posted on 08/12/2014 7:40:56 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: RedHeeler

What brings you to that conclusion? What have I accused conservative men of doing?


55 posted on 08/12/2014 7:42:17 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: austinaero

Let me be clear,,I love conservative men. No mystery or question about it.


56 posted on 08/12/2014 7:43:29 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Kaslin

Documentation File for the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka “Barry Soetoro” a former Foreign Student from Indonesia, and still a legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


57 posted on 08/12/2014 7:46:33 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Kaslin

IS is playing nobama like a fiddle. And he loves it.


58 posted on 08/12/2014 8:11:04 PM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: austinaero

Yeah, sometimes I read that stuff and I wonder if they’re trolls...Lots of great Republican women. Our women aren’t airheads like democrat women.


59 posted on 08/12/2014 8:11:20 PM PDT by GOPJ (If everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism - former senior FBI special agent David Gomez)
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To: austinaero

Nothing.


60 posted on 08/12/2014 10:20:11 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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