Posted on 08/26/2014 4:08:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
One does not need to be Sun Tzu or George Patton to know that a nation must recognize an enemy before it can develop a strategy to defeat it. But one apparently does have to be someone other than President Barack Obama.
Since he took office, Obama has spent considerable energy trying to convince us how peaceful and magnificent the religion of Islam is and how exceptional acts of terrorism springing from it are.
He has also been telling us in words and deeds that such terrorism can best be prevented by overtures of peace and good will toward Islam, understanding that the root cause of this violence is poverty, and developing an action plan to address it.
That means the United States must downsize its military, because our sheer strength and power constitutes a threat -- a provocation to the rest of the world. It means that we must pursue "economic justice," a wretched euphemism for undermining our capitalist system and redistributing our wealth at home and abroad.
But even Obama's stalwart supporters in the liberal media now understand that this man doesn't have a clue about how to deal with threats to the United States. He is highly proficient at campaigning, community organizing, partisan agitating and ordering underlings to carry out his agenda, but he is psychologically incapable of attending to the details himself and appears to have no interest in actual governance beyond setting his statist goals and issuing his implementation orders.
Obama either can't focus on high-level problems he didn't anticipate in connection with his various utopian schemes or is so narcissistic that he rides around blindly in his golf cart like Mr. Magoo, wholly unaware of the damage he's done to his own reputation as a serious, engaged and thoughtful person.
I do mean "utopian." He mistakenly believed that his stimulus would work like a magic elixir to send the economy to new heights (or he knew better and it was a ruse to redistribute funds to his political cronies and funnel money to his pet projects). He believed that his beloved Obamacare was a panacea for improving the quality and affordability of health care (or he knew better and it was a Trojan horse for establishing governmental control over all aspects of our lives). He thought he could achieve world peace by withdrawing our forces from foreign entanglements -- even without plans to preserve the order -- making nice speeches about Islam, removing the term "terrorist" from our vocabulary (except for its application to tea partyers), instituting a "reset" with Russia, whatever that means, and downsizing our military and defense systems (and there's no indication at all that he knew better on this one).
But here we are, after his insistence that al-Qaida was on the run and that the Islamic State is the JV squad, watching an Islamic caliphate proliferate in front of our eyes in the Levant.
Even if hard reality is finally forcing Obama to grudgingly recognize the threat the Islamic State represents to the Middle East, he still refuses to believe or admit it represents a danger to the United States, especially with the porousness of the border he has made sure to effectuate.
It's not just his reckless naivete but his compulsion to place his political self-interests above the national interests that inhibits him from publicly acknowledging the magnitude of the threats we are facing. In his mind, to make such an admission is tantamount to conceding that he was wrong and that his policies have exacerbated these threats -- and that's a charitable assessment. That's why he reportedly dragged his feet for a month before approving a rescue attempt on American journalist James Foley. That, and he didn't want to risk a Jimmy Carter-type failure -- again because he cares more about his political image than the problems he is duty-bound to address.
Even if Obama is willfully blind to the enormity of the threat, sentient Americans not similarly blinded by his ideology have to be disturbed by what we're witnessing in the world.
The Islamic State is massacring Christians, beheading American journalists, surging toward the borders of Turkey, marching across the Middle East with the swiftness of Alexander the Great and brazenly boasting that it is inside America, poised to attack. Islamist forces have taken control of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and seized an airport there. They have captured a key Syrian air base near the Iraqi border. The Pentagon is saying the Islamic State threat is "beyond anything we've seen."
Meanwhile, Obama has been riding around in his golf cart, which might as well sport a bumper sticker of Mad magazine's Alfred E. Neuman saying, "What, me worry?"
Honestly, I have been horrified by Obama's lawlessness, his destructive domestic policies leading to a permanently anemic economy and workforce, his staggering debt expansions, and his horrendous taxing, spending, regulatory and health care policies. But these foreign and domestic terror threats, along with the border invasion, may even be more troublesome.
I hate to be negative, and I refuse to be pessimistic, but anyone not alarmed by current events is in some physical, mental or emotional state I am powerless to comprehend.
It isn’t blindness if it’s done purposefully.
Recall him stating that he’d stand with the Muslims and that we could “absorb” a couple more 9/11 scale attacks?
Thank you, Liz...for the post.
when will people wake up and realize he’s not blind to it... he’s enabling it
his ultimate goal is to kick start Ottoman Empire II with nukes. this will get muslims to the ‘big boys’ table on the world stage
Blind? More like an enemy agent for the Religion of Pieces.
BTTT!
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Boehner must be sooooooo proud - - - -.
Until we are attacked, Obama is the primary enemy. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or mind-reader to see that Obama's policies are deliberately set to give license to the islamic agenda. He's not ignorant of this. He is one of them and knows exactly what he is doing. Obama is the enemy and must be dealt with.
I spent half a night thinking about this. Obama has as much desire to be the last Imam as any of the other loons of the ‘religion of peace’. Peace, as Rush would say, to them means absence of conflict. Beheading and threatening opposition is a way to attain peace. When we have a country that is so diminished by deliberate intent on the part of this president, do you think many will stand for the country when challenged to? Now we may be at the brink of losing an American city. Obama will just hand it to the Muslims when that happens. A turning point must come soon.
Everything Obama does terrorizes America. He is much a bigger terrorist than OBL or ISIS.
Hippie spawn
That is why he acts without restraint---caters to people of color---and uses the power of govt to thumb his nose at the rest of America.
EYES WIDE OPEN.
In 2009 I fully expected Obama to destroy the American economy. He has tried his best with help from the Republicans. But Americans are still productive and many still risk their savings on long term ventures that both Republicans and Democrats wish to destroy with confiscatory business taxes and Fed printing.
OTOH, I wasn't so sure he would destroy the world. I didn't really believe he was Muslim at that time. I took a sort of nativist view of foreign policy and figured that getting out of various hell holes might not be all that bad. What shocked me into reality was his support for the "Arab Spring" which lost its fig leaf of legitimacy when the people "voted" for Islamic states. There is either democracy or there is Islamic state, there cannot be both.
The question now is how to fix it. We have a growing radical Islamic cancer in Syria and Iraq and there are no authoritarians in power to stop it by the usual forceful means. Sad to say, it seems to only lead to a very large scale conflict with Sunni elite (the case in many parts of the middle east) supporting the Sunni rabble against the Shia rabble. Unfortunately everyone else in the Middle East will be caught in the middle.
Seriously, at this point, does it make a difference?
This is a very well written article, but what is to be done? If Obama remains in office for the next two and a half years there will be hell to pay.
BTTT
-——there will be hell to pay.——
I doubt it
Conservatives are apathetic and if they can’t pray it away, it will remain
Because of leftists we have already lost many American cities.
Any man with male apparatus would have bombed the $h!t out of “IS” by now.
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I disagree.
The best course of action open is to have the powers surrounding the Islamics deal with them. Russia, China and EU.
“One does not need to be Sun Tzu or George Patton to know that a nation must recognize an enemy before it can develop a strategy to defeat it.”
America’s enemy is living in America’s White House. The only question for me is whether Obama and Co. are actively complicit with certain Muslim groups or merely sympathetic to them. Regardless, we are in grave danger.
They are on the same side to destroy whitey.
Pray America wakes up
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