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Can Obama Win the Fight Against ISIS?
Townhall.com ^ | September 5, 2014 | Linda Chavez

Posted on 09/05/2014 4:33:41 PM PDT by Kaslin

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Can Obama Win the Fight Against ISIS?

This begs several interesting questions.

21 posted on 09/05/2014 4:53:31 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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Obama couldn’t defeat a J.V. High school basketball team.

On the other hand,Our military with good leadership could probably destroy them ISIS in one month.The thing is to go in and take the gloves off and kill these animals and pile them high.Maybe that will dissuade future converts to the mental illness known as Islam.


22 posted on 09/05/2014 4:55:33 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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Obama is writing and saying some of the right things. Now let's see what he will actually do.

Did Obama participate in the writing of this op-ed? I wonder.

Was he an active participant? I doubt it.

To the best of my knowledge there is nothing in the public realm that can be definitively attributed to Obama as a writer.

MY guess would be that Obama simply lent his name to this op-ed or one of his speech writers provided input under his name.

I don’t think Obama could get a passing grade on a high school term paper.

23 posted on 09/05/2014 4:56:41 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: DoughtyOne
He caved to the followers of Islam decades ago

I don't think he "caved." If you want to go out with your buds and go out with your buds, you aren't caving.

24 posted on 09/05/2014 4:56:48 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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I cant agree wth her cause she wasmone of the very people who got us intothis- no lied us into this wsr to beginwith.


25 posted on 09/05/2014 4:58:44 PM PDT by quimby
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The only ones Obama wins battles against are Republicans.

Can you really say that you have won a battle when the other side surrenders before the first shot is fired.

26 posted on 09/05/2014 4:58:55 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Kaslin

Heh, no he can’t.


27 posted on 09/05/2014 4:59:16 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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That is houw you deal with Islam Militant. You destroy the eruption utterly. You make the defeat so complete that Moslems everywhere understand that Allah does not will that Islam triumph in this century. Then the Moslem World will lapse into the torpor that characterized it from 1920 or so until the 70s. And the civilized powers must confiscate all sources of uncreated wealth from Moslem lands and hands, like oil. That wealth, or rather the wealth got from we Infidels in payment for that oil is used to finance Jihad and expansion. Accompany that process by expulsion of ALL Moslems of any sort from the advanced countries. Nothing less will buy peace with the paynim.


28 posted on 09/05/2014 5:03:54 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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Or, in a wink & a nod to his Sunni brethren, “the fight against ISIL”, as Obamuppet puts it in Muslim-speak...


29 posted on 09/05/2014 5:05:15 PM PDT by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: Kaslin

It is NOT a question of our means, but rather of our will.

In WWII we defeated Japan and Germany on several continents, in under 3 years.

Unconditional surrender, millions of civilian collateral deaths, no problema for over 65 years.

Since then, lack of will yields half-measured, incomplete wars. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I, Afghanistan, Iraq II, and still doing the same thing.

I seriously doubt that our military has people at the top who will even acknowledge what I stated, and engage in discussion of same.

To win big wars, big numbers of people need to die, and that includes civilians. It is too hard to tell soldiers and civilians apart, when nobody wears a uniform. And when civilians sympathize with the conflict.

The Japs didn’t quit, until we demonstrated the futility of continuing, and the big numbers of deaths we could impose.

Muslims have more in common with WWII Japs than other sides I have studied. Fanatical.


30 posted on 09/05/2014 5:10:34 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Morpheus2009

Agreed, but it was easy for him just like Obama, because the lap-dog press has not on failed it’s mandate, but has sold out our nation in the process.


31 posted on 09/05/2014 5:16:44 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: Kaslin

No. It’s time for new masculine leadership.


32 posted on 09/05/2014 5:19:59 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: arthurus

I agree with your argument, on it’s face value.

At some point he had to decide if he would back the U.S. or Islam. He chose Islam. At that point he caved to it. He isn’t caving now, because he is just following his chosen ideology.

Now I will agree also, that if raised a follower of Islam, he never really caved to it. It was his heredity to follow it. I am actually giving him the benefit of the doubt by saying he caved at any point.

He may never have had to.

Your comments opened this up for inspection. I think that is worthwhile.


33 posted on 09/05/2014 5:20:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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"we will not be cowed" by ISIS

What does that mean? We will not tolerate them mooing at us? It's still got to be better than being goated.

34 posted on 09/05/2014 5:24:06 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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What do you mean Obama wants to win? He wants the Islamists to win but only the ones he and Valerie Jarrett have picked. That's where is quandary is; he cannot make up his mind. That, and the Islamists keep changing their organization names and fight among themselves over doctrinal issues. Barry just wants to know why can't his Muslim brothers just get along?
35 posted on 09/05/2014 5:25:07 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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Obama is ISIS. or more to the point, ISIS is Obama. Obama formed them, organized them, trained them, armed them and then gave them free reign to create mayhem and chaos wherever they went. Again, why would he want to fight his creation?


36 posted on 09/05/2014 5:29:53 PM PDT by sport
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I don’t think he chose the ideology. He was raised to it. He memorized Koran in the lower grades at school. His one formal male parent substitute was Moslem as was his designated biological father. He recited shaheed in Cairo which is a formal declaration of his Faith when done publicly in Arabic. His allegiance was determined long before he assumed any office.


37 posted on 09/05/2014 5:33:35 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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resident Obama

GREAT cut and paste error!

Ø may be the "resident" of 1600 Pennsyvlania Ave but he sure isn't Presidential.

38 posted on 09/05/2014 5:37:12 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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On page 261 of the paperback edition of “Audacity of Hope” Obama wrote: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

In short... win against ISIS NO!

39 posted on 09/05/2014 5:40:33 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Answer: No. He and Lurch do keep talking about ISIL, though
40 posted on 09/05/2014 5:42:23 PM PDT by Rodamala
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