Posted on 06/14/2016 11:48:06 AM PDT by traumer
After years of brushing off criticism for avoiding the term “radical Islam,” President Obama fired a point-blank broadside Tuesday at his critics, calling the debate a “political distraction” that will do nothing to combat terrorism.
Speaking from the White House during what was expected to be an update for the public on the fight against the Islamic State, Obama lit into his critics and specifically presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Their criticism has mounted in the wake of the Orlando terror attack, which Obama declined to publicly link to radical Islam.
“Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. … There’s no magic to the phrase of radical Islam,” Obama countered Tuesday. “It’s a political talking point.”
The president faced swift pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
“With all due respect Mr. President, you’re wrong," Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said in a statement. "Telling the truth about violent Islam is a prerequisite to a strategy – a strategy you admitted you don’t have. It is the Commander-in-Chief’s duty to actually identify our enemies and to help the American people understand the challenge of violent Islam.”
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It took Obama six years to admit Ft. Hood was an act of terrorism.
That’s either incredible stupidity or deliberate obfuscation to appease radical Muslims.
Either was, he’s not fit to be president.
was = way.
I would really like an edit feature on FR.
Ha! And Obama had to use a teleprompter to express his contempt towards critics!
Trump should avoid that trap. He doesn't really believe that the war can be won with a slogan, but he sometimes has a way of making it sound like he believes that.
This is the worst president the nation has ever endured. Im embarrassed for our country. Happy f***ing Ramadan, you effete, girly man, homosexual, marxist, muslim manyouk (look it up)
Nothing from Romney either regarding Dems politicizing this. I think it’s fair to say he is a Democrat these days.
It’s radical Islam, you muzlim loving traitor!
Go fluck yourself Obama!
When it ocmes to wordplay, To quote a Clinton
It depends on what the meaning of ISIS!
He took the bait. Wow.
Temper tantrum. I saw it. Baby had a temper tantrum.
“ISIL” is considered anti-Israel because it means “Islamic State in Iraq and Levant”
The Levant region includes Israel & Lebanon. Obama’s use of that term is equivalent to those Middle East maps which completely omit the state of Israel.
Obama hates more than just Netanyahu. He hates Israel.
This guy obama’s really a monomaniacal Idiot.
Yes I’m familiar with the difference. But found it interesting that the shooter used the ISIL reference. Even ISIS calls themselves ISIS.
I agree to some extent. Then trolls can’t back track.
A man who works in the law (i.e. words) is lecturing us that words have no meaning.
He uses the term “ISIL” for a very specific reason. It stand for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia in the east. The term is also sometimes used to refer to modern events or states in the region immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, specifically: Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and ISRAEL.
He’s sending a message to the Israelis that very few people understand...
This article answers my question. It was Coney who said ISIL. Interesting article
https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2016/06/13/orlando-shooter-tsarnaev-marathon-bombers
“If I had 60 minutes to solve
a problem, I’d spend 55
minutes defining it, and 5
minutes solving it.”
-Albert Einstein
Seem our President refuses to define the problem, hence, we have no solution.
He’s a terrorist sympathizer, so of course he won’t call it what it is.
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