Posted on 06/19/2016 5:14:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Long before the mass murder in Orlando happened, I was in the process of writing this column. Obviously what happened early last Sunday has changed a lot for all of us. But it has not changed the fact of how ISIS has grown and prospered is the responsibility of President Obama more than anyone else, and that needs to be identified and he needs to be held accountable for that.
The impetus for this column was an article in the Wall Street Journal exposing the fact that ISIS fighters are returning to their home countries because they don’t like getting their butts kicked on the battlefield. They also did not find the way the leaders of ISIS treated them was as exciting and as glamorous as they thought it would be while sitting in their living rooms. You can be assured President Obama will be touting the decline in ISIS forces, but they never should have been there in the first place.
Way back when President Obama called ISIS the “JV team,” I and many others were hollering about how foolish that was. It is not because I am a military expert nor do I espouse that I am. But having read enough books on the working of power, I think I know how these things work. You need not have read Sun Tzu or Machiavelli to have questioned the strategy Mr. Obama had adopted. All you needed to have done was follow American sports or possibly sports anywhere to know he was being a fool.
It is called the “bandwagon effect.” True fans of a sports team see this all the time -- particularly ones who have suffered for years. The people of Kansas City have seen this the last couple of years; the ones who stuck with the Royals through some miserable years were all of a sudden being crowded out at games by bandwagoners.
In early 2014, ISIS was experiencing many successes and flaunting it with murderous videos. Their successes were being broadcast into our homes and they were spreading them through a sophisticated internet communication system.
I stated they needed to be crushed, and immediately. Obama, the reluctant warrior, refused to do what history had taught us. I even wrote comparing his action to the inactivity of France and Britain in crushing early actions of Hitler that emboldened him to take the next step and then throw the world into war. As Lincoln wrote to General McClellan: “If you don’t want to use the Army I should like to borrow it for a while.” At the time I said: “Please, Mr. President, let me use the greatest military force in world history. I will crush ISIS in the crib and you will thank me.”
Instead he dawdled. Sure he sent some drones in to make selective kills. Those drone strikes killed ISIS leaders, their associates, friends and family. Obama went after the terrorists with no regard for their families and then instructed his press secretary to chastise Donald Trump for calling for actions he was already condoning. And it was so he could avoid actually using the full force of the military we gave him to protect us. It is much easier to sit in a shed somewhere and push a button than confront terror face-to-face.
While Obama fiddled, ISIS grew in power. On the home front, our police (FBI) were fighting the battle attempting to protect us. But when their leader refuses to recognize the existence of the threat and name it as such, you can only imagine how hamstrung our protectors were. The government knew about Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in San Bernardino. They likewise knew about Omar Mateen.
President Obama rails against guns, but what did he do here in a situation that should have been questioned? Mateen has been on the FBI watch list for some time, but he walked into a gun dealer two weeks ago and bought new guns. He went through a background check. Why was he not questioned? Because the system in place is inept? Or does the government not want to seem anti-Islamic? Instead of confronting the challenge at hand, Mr. Obama blamed law-abiding citizens for having guns and called for new gun laws. He labeled it home grown extremism.
Let’s be clear, Obama had zero desire for the massacre that occurred last week and he holds no responsibility for that particular act. But he has made decisions as to how to confront the evil that bred the horror and for that he is responsible.
Secretary Clinton will be more of the same. Sure she will blow meaningless platitudes our way, but not much will change. She has never called him out for not crushing ISIS. Sure her campaign sent out a cover-your-ass statement expressing sorrow about the event and talking tough, but not telling us how she will be different or expressing dissatisfaction with Mr. Obama and his policies. She did state we should do all this while “staying true to our values” which are code words for half-measures. She too labeled it home grown extremism. She wants us to believe this is a hate crime and nothing more.
Mrs. Clinton swears solidarity with women and gays. But she has taken millions into her slush fund charity from governments that abuse and denigrate women and murder gays. How can we trust her to change the policies of the government she endorses and of which she was a big part? Is the Congenital Liar now to be believed?
Was Lincoln not true to our values? Was Roosevelt not true to our values? They realized that we are at war and the time for half-measures was over. It has come to our shores; the great oceans can no longer protect us.
Things need to change folks. More of these murders will go on until they do. The sad thing is much of this could have been prevented if Mr. Obama did his job. This in on his head.
A good explanation of Obama here.....http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/scott/130301
Great article!
Either we fight Radical-Islam-Extremists with everything we got or western civilization dies.
This is "on" the Republicans and the Press for being afraid (because he is black) to call him out. His tantrum last week...the FIRST one we have seen, was because he was FINALLY challenged for the FIRST time...by Donald Trump. He should have been challenged from the first day, he would barely have lasted through the first term. He is not the brilliant far-seeing seer ...he is a weak communist dressed up in very thin ideology. Strip that and his TelePrompTer away, as Trump did, and you have exposed rage 90 pound political weakling he is.
Ryan? Mcconnell? All of the Republicans in Congress, the press? None laid a hand in this political bully because all were afraid of being called names. The original SNOWFLAKES. Yes I'm voting for Trump, not because he is the smoothest choice we have ever had (that was Romney)...but because Trump isn't afraid to confront the evil and call a spade a spade!
In short..... Obama has queer blood on his hands
Trump is the only one leading the pushback and he has MILLIONS that agree with him. That alone is driving the DC Power whores nuts...
You said it.
I don't think the FBI are our protectors. They are there to help keep order for society and the rule of law in general.
If the gov't have proven themselves unable to fuse all of the surveillance spying data they have collected, they should give up the privacy intrusions and admit that the muzzies and muzzie sympathizers are in charge of providing cover for jihad in America. Then they can continue to try to disarm America so Jihad will be easier and faster.
Excellent and the author hit the nail square on the head
This is Obama’s idea of change look how he supports it.
Oh yes they certainly must change. Including the congressional roster. Hopefully, Trump gets voted into the WH and starts kicking ass. Then in two years we'll have the opportunity to vote out the career DINOS and RINOS and enact something that should have been enacted a looooong time ago. The inability for any congressman/woman to get so entrenched as to become corrupt. Two term limits across the board. Serve the country and then "back to the salt mine". One cannot be allowed to lose his/her sense of reality.
Bingo. And B. Hussein Obama thought he would come out and chastise Mr. Trump like he was a school marm to a student. Went on and on about "radical Islam". I knew Trump hit a nerve. Finally.
Sh## in a pretty box with a bow is still sh##
POW! to the mulatto muslim.
BACKSTORY In Egypt's post-Morsi era, then-Gen al Sisi (now Egyptian president) refused to take Obama's phone call---b/c he knew Obama wanted al Sisi to leave the M/B alone.
Nevertheless, Gen al Sisi proceeded to smash the M/B and throw them out of Egyptian politics....he vowed to rebuild the 65 Christian churches the M/B had savagely torched.
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It should be remembered that while Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood were ruling Egypt, Obama and Hillary showered them with praise and provided billions of dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes. Egypt has unceremoniously thrown the Muslim Brotherhood out of Egyptian politics.... and hasn’t forgotten the support offered to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt under al-Sisi has now charged Obama and Hillary Clinton for conspiring and collaborating with the M/B and advancing their terrorist activities.
POINT TO PONDER The Clinton Foundation employee, Gehad al Haddad, who was also a Muslim Brotherhood activist AT THE SAME TIME has been jailed by the Egyptian govt. (reported by H/T Western Journalism).
Gehad means jihad in Farsi.
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AS FREEPER CLAUD POSTED---- I don’t follow Egyptian politics, but it was no secret Morsi et al. had no love for the Copts. Then when I saw al-Sisi visit a Coptic Church in Cairo to huge cheers, his kindness and graciousness to the Christians there and to the Patriarch (to whom he apologized profusely for interrupting prayers), that told me all I needed to know about Obama’s Egypt policy. It is unfathomable how utterly, completely, perversely wrong our government was in Egypt. Obama is a loathsome human being.
COMMENTS---Pres al-Sisi is one of the world's master strategists......bold, decisive and unerring. He received his master's degree at a Pennsylvania War College in Carlisle PA, in 2006.
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FOOTNOTE--Russia's Spetsnaz special forces went on bloody revenge missions against local (Muslim) jihad units.....to punish them for atrocities against Russian troops and civilians.
Just goes to show.....if nothing else, Putin is consistent----he backed Egyptian president al Sisi in throwing the Muslim Brotherhood out of Egyptian politics.
Putin also backed al Sisi when the Egyptian president vowed to rebuild the churches and Christian businesses destroyed by the Muslim savages.
And we can thank that half-wit in the WH for that....and this.
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The radical left attacks Trump for being a racist because he plans on controlling Muslim immigration into this country. According to the cockamamie thinking of the left, any President who does his constitutional duty by protecting the nation from Muslim butchers is a racist.
AND GET THIS: Obama stooge, DHS Secy 'Jeh' Johnson fatuously stating that Muslim immigrants have been successfully assimilated into American society. So, Jeh...how'd they do that?
-Back in October 2011 one of the most astute lawmen in Washington, Cong Louis Gohmert (Repub-TX), a former judge, questioned then-DHS Secy Janet Napolitano about Mohamed Elibiary, a member of the Department of Homeland Security Council (DHS) with a high level security clearance.
Elibiary allegedly accessed, illegally, from his home computer, a Texas State and Local Intelligence Community database.....(Elibiary was ousted from the Homeland Security Advisory Council for shady activities---and settled in Texas).
Napolitano managed to unglue her lips from Obama's behind---and told Cong Gohmert she knew nothing about it, and that she would "personally" do the investigation. (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
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Obama gave 5 MILLION federal hires Obama top security clearance.
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The following have top US security clearance
Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development;
Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council (ousted for using his home computer
to tap into a Texas State and Local Intelligence Community database;
Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference;
Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC);
Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA);
Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.
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Estimates range from several thousand to approximately eight million Islamic fighters inside the United States as we type. The exact number is unknown. Several thousand could create havoc if a coordinated attack was to occur. keep in mind, on 9/11, just 19 Islamic fighters and hijackers killed almost three thousand people. One has to believe the worst case scenario----that nearly eight million are already here....and being welcomed by Obama.
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Cong Michelle Bachman says the FBI told her Americans who joined ISIS are allowed back in the US.
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REFERENCE: Muslim Brotherhood is Advising Obama Not to Stop ISIS
(SOURCE Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert posted on FR by Rusty)
(Video) http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/war-terror/rep-louie-gohmert-claims-muslim-
You are so right.
The founders tried to prevent him from being President.
They put the natural born citizen clause in there.
Children of foreign nationals are NOT natural born citizens.
In 6 years Omar Mateen would have been just as eligible to be President as Obama, Rubio, Jindal, Haley and Cruz.
Maybe more so than Cruz as he was born here.
Adding: (d) Muslims are peaceful, (e) Mexico is our friend, (f) illegals violate our borders looking for a better life, (f) the Clinton Foundation is saving the world.
Behavioral Sciences and psychology are dismissed by our side while being USED by the other side. Psychology is not just “counseling” or some frivolous study. It is a weapon when used in certain ways to strategically position image, words, feelings of large groups of people.
Trayvon Martin becomes a cause, the Gentle Giant is on everyone’s lips, but Kate Steinle killed by an illegal in San Francisco??? Well, “things happen.” Benghazi? “Well, so long ago”, etc.
We had better start paying attention to this stuff and grab the language, stop using their terms, stop giving into their demands, stop apologizing for offending them, stop changing team names and acting as if their complaints are real when they are not.
All of it is connected and goes back to manipulation of public opinion. These tools are available to us as well. Reframe arguments, never let anything go just to be popular with someone.
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REFERENCE “Obama Decree Unleashes “Behavioral Science” Squad to “Nudge” You
(by Alex Neman Sept. 18, 2015, The New American)
“Under the guise of better “serving” the American people through government, Obama signed an executive order this week calling for federal agencies and departments to deploy emerging “behavioral science” techniques against the public.
“The Obama order also establishes a Social and Behavioral Sciences Team charged with applying psychological research to manipulate the beliefs and behaviors of Americans under various pretexts, and guide the vast federal bureaucracy as it hones its abilities to manipulate the public. “ --SNIP--
Brain washing and propaganda used by the Left in our schools for four decades has produced mind-numbed Government Robots.
The Childrens’ Story by James Clavell (author of Shogun and Nobel House)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C1IV00LLDQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Va0b0tL1M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojxtz-9vSr8&feature=related
From President Reagan’s Report “A Nation At Risk.”
“...If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament....”
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