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Obama Orders Boots on the Ground!
The Weekly Standard ^
| 09/16/14
| William Kristol
Posted on 09/16/2014 10:27:09 AM PDT by Enlightened1
We're at war. We're putting boots on the ground. We're not waiting around for the host nation's government to get its affairs in order, or for a regional coalition to commit first. The president has apparently overcome his reluctance to use the military, his worries about a commitment to intervene without an exit strategy, and his usual reluctance to acknowledge (even implicitly) that his administration was wrong when it assured us that there was nothing much for us to worry about.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bootsontheground; iraq; obama; obamanewisisstrategy; syria; war
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To: what's up
If they make inroads into Baghdad that's very bad news.Gee, you don't think there is anything we could have done to prevent that from happening from 2008 or so ? Naw. Likely inevitable. (sarc)
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09/16/2014 11:02:37 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Straight. Since 1950.)
To: ex-snook
My father, a three tour veteran of exotic & dangerous Asian locales, gave that passage from Kipling to me engraved on a brass plaque mounted on a nice piece of walnut.
If Billy Kristol and his neo-con preverts over at the Weakly Standard seek titillation over “boots on the ground,” let them go. They can give each other combat jacks.
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:06:08 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: aft_lizard
I guess Obama doesn’t know his history...
That's the understatement of the year. I bet he couldn't pass the basic citizenship test we give LEGAL immigrants.
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:43:24 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: SolidRedState
I think only 2 posters so far have actually read it is EBOLA he is sending boots onthe ground to...
Boots and pants and
Boots and pants.
To: Enlightened1
I think the Commander and chief should be the first on the ground leading our troops into battle.
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:20:03 PM PDT
by
bikerman
(any day above ground is a good day)
To: bikerman
I think the Commander and chief should be the first on the ground leading our troops into battle.Like the old time kings?
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:53:15 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
(Book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. Available from Amazon.)
To: aft_lizard
I guess Obama doesn’t know his history and how the Spanish flu went pandemic.
I'm guessing he does, and thus the move.
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:55:58 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
To: Old Yeller
Everything Clown Prince nobama does is intentional. Can you spell “Traitor”?
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09/16/2014 1:00:49 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: SolidRedState
Not reading the article is a freerepublic tradition.
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posted on
09/16/2014 1:02:26 PM PDT
by
right way right
(America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
To: right way right
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09/16/2014 1:32:46 PM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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