Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas"

realclearpolitics ^ | 7/6/15 | i schwarz

[bestintxas]

After consulting with military leaders at the Pentagon this afternoon President Obama held a press conference on the growing threat of ISIS. President Obama declared the United States "will never be at war with Islam." Obama also said, "ideologies are not defeated with guns but better ideas."

"We'll constantly reaffirm through words and deeds that we will never be at war with Islam," President Obama said Monday afternoon. "We are fighting terrorists who distort islam and its victims are mostly Muslims."

"This challenge of countering violent extremism is not simply a military effort," the president said. "Ideologies are not defeated with guns but better ideas and more attracting and more compelling vision."

PRESIDENT OBAMA: This broader challenge of countering violent extremism is not simply a military effort. Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas and more attractive and more compelling vision. So the United States will continue to do our part by continuing to counter ISIL's hateful propaganda, especially online. We'll constantly reaffirm through words and deeds that we will never be at war with Islam. We are fighting terrorists who distort islam and its victims are mostly Muslims.

We're also going to partner with Muslim communities as they seek the prosperity and dignity they observe. And we're going to expect those communities to step up in terms of pushing back as hard as they can in conjunction with other people of good will against these hateful ideologies, particularly when it comes to what we're teaching young people.

[dfwgator]

Yep, I remember when we totally outdebated Hitler and he just ran down to his bunker and offed himself.

Yeah I remember when Otto Wels out-debated Hitler in the Reichstag and stopped the Enabling Act....oh wait.

[onedoug]

Thanks.

[onedoug]

I think more the Benedict Arnold of our time.

[kevao]

I’ve been saying it for years. He’s not naive; he’s malicious.

[dfwgator]

At least at one time Benedict Arnold was a hero.

[onedoug]

The point is, this...man is an enemy islamist, which, as President, makes him the most horrendous Traitor in American history.

[free_life]

Obama is right...we won’t defeat ISIS with guns...but...lots of bombs now that is a better idea!

[EinNYC]

He is the Defecator-in-Chief. Everything he does and everything he says turns to the brown stuff. It simply cascades out of him. The White Hut has had to lay in secret mega-stores of Charmin. And yet, he is continuously FULL of it. A modern medical marvel.

[clearcarbon]

"Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas"

These will likely be remembered among the few famous Last Words of comrade barack hussein obama.

[Amagi]

Absolutely incredible.
Mr. Certified-57-States-Stupid has achieved new stupendous depths of stupidity.
Affirmative Action strikes again.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[lowbridge]

Bump

[bestintxas]

‘You can not fix stupid.’

you need to pay royalties to Ron White

[unread]

"Maybe the stupidest thing any President has ever said at any time"

Stupid is as stupid does..........

[bestintxas]

‘Darn, what was that Line from the Conan Movie about defeating your Enemy?’

Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?

Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?

Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.

Mongol General: That is good! That is good.

[pabianice]

Yes, yes. We defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan by convincing them of the superiority of our ideas, our hopes, our dreams. A good thing we never had to resort to violence. Once they realized their errors, they tearfully surrendered and promised never to do it again.

Is ANYONE else as stupid as Obama??

[john mirse]

"Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas"

These will likely be remembered among the few famous Last Words of comrade barack hussein obama.

******

I don't know what to say. I am so stunned that Obama would say something so ridiculous like this in talking about ISIS and terrorists.

Presidents Roosevelt and Truman during World War II: Can you imagine these two great presidents uttering such a thing when talking about how to fight Germany and Japan during World War II?---"Germany and Japan will be defeated by better ideas!"---Obama is just unbelievable when he talks about that JV team, ISIS.

[archy]

After consulting with military leaders at the Pentagon this afternoon

Well, there's your problem, right there!

[Morpheus2009]

Blasting the enemy to pieces and getting medieval on them is the good idea. There is this fact, for Mr. Obama, that getting thrashed and decimated makes people open to new ideas. But then again, I can’t blame him much when it appears politicians have long forgotten how we dealt with Japan and Germany many years ago.

[okie01]

Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas"

Did not George W. Bush utter the same words at the outset of the War on Terror?

At the time, "Freedom" was said to be a more powerful idea than "Terror".

Let's try killing them all this time around...