Posted on 09/11/2014 5:11:52 PM PDT by bestintxas
Thursday on CNN's "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer," Obama White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the president's actions against ISIS are "very different" from America being at war.
Rice said, "I don't know whether you want to call it a war or sustained counterterrorism campaign. I think, frankly, this is a counterterrorism operation that will take time. It will be sustained. We will not have American combat forces on the ground fighting as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan which is what I think the American people think of when they think of a war. So I think this is very different from that. But nonetheless, we'll be dealing with the significant threat to this region, to American personnel in the region and potentially also to Europe and the United States. And we'll be doing it with partners. We'll not be fighting ourselves on the ground but using American air power as we have been over the last several weeks as necessary."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Susan, you will not escape the wrath.
Well, she is right....
Obama isn’t conducting a war...he is conducting political theater .
He is pretending to care about the threat of ISIL....he doesn’t ...
His speech was passionless and dry....
The foreign policy thing keeps getting in his way of his domestic agenda...
Since he can no longer blame Bush, he ignores the ME as much as possible...
It’s disgraceful that they would say this on 9/11. Not surprising, though.
What an idiot. What does she think the pilot and crew think war is? Hell they are dropping ordinance on men and material to kill and destroy. If they get shot down does she think they go to the Hilton? These advisers or controllers of Obama are as used to lying as he is. They are so used to lies they believe their own. And this is the clown who told us on TV that an anti Muslim film caused a protest when Benghazi was overrun and being liberated of 500 million in arms and other weapons for ISIS.
It IS very different from a war.
In a war, we fight.
I would say both.
Not a war? Well, that’s a relief.
And I don’t have to go to work tomorrow, or pay my bills. Plus I’m not over the hill.
This is easy - try it!
Won’t be long before they blame the rise of ISIS on a video. Seems as we have been down the road before.
Well, what could be expected from a black racist liar? She is just a political whore that never says no.
“Everybody says this here thing we’re involved in ain’t a real war...’Course the guys over there getting shot at say it’s the best damned imitation they ever saw.” (Will Rogers, American humorist)
Well of course. It’s always different when a libtard does it.
Boiled Rice, boiled brain. That explains it. Plus the fact that she is dumb as dog crap.
The only reason she has that job is that she is black because she would never get it for competency.
Kinetic Military Action”
A term by Democrats so they don’t have to appear as exactly the hypocrites they are.
Enemy islamist.
Role model for ethics.
What do,you do when your boss gives you a lie to tell the whole world.
You resign. Or
You tell the lie and take a promotion as a payoff.
Why hasn’t congress defunded her position?
Oh my! The stupid runs strong in this one!
owebama surrounds himself with such starry-eyed Kool-Aid drinkers who have absolutely NO real-world experience in anything.
IOW, he got caught with his pants down.
Obama stupidly thought he had done everything in his power to appease the jihadists:
<><> $2 billion funding to the Muslim Brotherhood,
<><> appointing the M/B to key WH positions;
<><> installing a dedicated Muslim outreach program;
<><> changing US law to allow "repentant" terrorists into the USA:
<><> calling Egyptian President al Sisi to leave the M/B alone
(al Sisi refused to take Obama's call and decimated the M/B).
<><> Obama/Hillary's "Kumbaya" deal in Benghazi---that went awry when four Americans were slaughtered.
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Ovama's "strategy" is a cockamamie prog/lib "Smart Power" tactic---wherein being nice to your enemies is considered better than the Republican way---waging war against them.
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Of course Obama's not "fighting terrorists"---he's inviting them into our communities.
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"SMART POWER"--is a Bush slapdown---a term coined by Hillary----which serves to magnify Obama's careening and incomprehensible foreign policy (or lack thereof). Obama's outed himself again..... as naive, isolated, incompetent and outlandishly stupid.
Not to forget (1) the abysmally stupid Susan Rice.... (2) Hillary's All-Girl State Dept, and the cipher known as John Kerry.....all of whom had a hand in the "Smart Power" debacle.
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Democrats' 'Smart Power' Lies in Ruins; Suddenly
Realizing What They Miscalculated About the World:
National Review | Sept 3, 2013 | Jim Geraghty / FR Posted by kristinn
....... Democrats are suddenly realizing that their foreign policy brain-trust completely misjudged the world.
Being nicer to countries like Russia will not make them nicer to you. The United Nations is not an effective tool for resolving crises. Some foreign leaders are beyond persuasion and diplomacy. There is no “international community” ready to work together to solve problems, and there probably never will be.
You can pin this on Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Susan Rice, but most of all, the buck stops with the president. Those of us who scoffed a bit at a state senator ascending to the presidency within four years on a wave of media hype and adoration are not quite so shocked by this current mess.
We never bought into this notion that getting greater cooperation from our allies, and less hostility from our enemies, was just a matter of giving this crew the wheel and letting them practice, as Hillary Clinton arrogantly declared it, “smart power” (and fronted Time magazine cover).
(These people can’t even label a foreign policy approach without reminding us of how highly they think of themselves.)
They looked out at the world at the end of the Bush years, and didn’t see tough decisions, unsolvable problems, unstable institutions, restless populations, technology enabling the impulse to destabilize existing institutions, evil men hungry for more power, and difficult trade-offs.
No, our problems and challengers were just a matter of the previous hands running U.S. foreign policy not being smart enough. (Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The Susan Rice Video Room is on the lower level.
Susan Rice has read about war in books, so she is now an expert. In her own mind.
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