Posted on 09/11/2014 8:18:50 AM PDT by Bratch
After tonight’s speech by the President regarding our nation’s challenges with ISIL, Governor Palin delivered one heck of a response full of the kind of clarity and truth America is in need of.
Via Facebook:
War is hell. So go big or go home, Mr. President. Big means bold, confident, wise assurance from a trustworthy Commander-in-Chief that it shall all be worth it. Charge in, strike hard, get out. Win.
Obama famously claims to despise the “theater” and “optics” of the presidency. In tonight’s speech he illustrated the “optics” of toughness. He tried to show a war-weary America that he’s tough in his speech concerning the threat of ISIS/ISIL. “The One” who believes in leading from behind can’t have it both ways. He sure wasn’t concerned about “optics” when he let the crisis starring this Islamic death cult reach this point as he dithered and danced and golfed the time away while the Middle East exploded into chaos.
Tonight he announced he’s flipped and will finally militarily engage inside Syria – the red line he’d set and then forgotten about surfaced again. This, after three and a half years of civil war, 200,000 people killed, and millions displaced amid horrifying humanitarian conditions. Last month, he authorized U.S. military action to stall ISIS’ momentum as it’s taken nearly complete control of Iraq. Tonight, President Obama pledged to fight Islamic militants “wherever they exist” with a very small coalition of the willing. (Can you blame foreign nations for not trusting the resolve of this president enough to join us? Right now he has a coalition of nine; President Bush had over 40 allied countries that could trust America’s leadership.)
Remember the inexperienced presidential candidate speaking from Germany at the Brandenburg Gate (2008)? Or the know-it-all state senator (2002), known for merely voting “present” on the big things, yet lecturing about this “dumb war” he claimed was a distraction from his desire to force income redistribution to create security. Remember him? Today, he seems more worried about contradicting his campaign promises (2002-2008) and typical political poll angst than leading as president (2009-present). These are the “optics” he’s worried about.
The rise of the animalistic terror group, ISIS, is the result of Obama’s lead-from-behind foreign policy. He had broadcast his war strategy for all the enemy to see in Iraq, so the enemy could wait us out and strike as soon as America turned tail and turned away from all we’d sacrificed there. Terrorists who we had under control got to regroup and grow after Obama’s premature pull out. Those are the facts, and some tough talking speech is still just talk. Ronald Reagan was described by the Soviets as a politician for whom “words and deeds are one and the same.” When Reagan said his vision of the Cold War was “we win, they lose,” he meant it, and his policies won the Cold War. The real question Americans and our allies must ask is whether Obama-the-lecturer’s words will translate into deeds.
Go big and be real, Mr. President, if you’ve really changed your mind again and now wish to engage. You must acknowledge reality: the organization calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is, in fact, “Islamic.” Not many of us pretend to be experts on the Muslim religion, but these terrorists obviously consider themselves Muslim and they believe what they’re horrifically doing to innocents is part of their “religion of peace.” So, you can use your soapbox to fiercely encourage the sane, civilized Muslims of the world to tell ISIS and all these sickening terrorists that they’re wrong. In the meantime, we must identify and understand the enemy by at least acknowledging their ideological motivation and identity. Our president is naive to ignore this.
ISIS must be stopped in Iraq and Syria before we need to stop them anywhere else. As they dominate the region they head for us; we’re next on the hit list. For the sake of peace-loving people in America and throughout the world, let’s hope Barack Obama means what he says when he uses terms like “defeating ISIS.” He is so inconsistent in leading a failed agenda that it’s virtually impossible to put any hope in his new promises, because either his past statements shrugging off ISIS as just a “JV squad” was all talk or tonight’s new terminology is just all talk.
We should honor and understand our brave men and women of the U.S. armed forces today more than ever. Please do not support politicians who join Obama in diminishing our military. Our finest, trained to fight for what is right and determined to win, deserve our support. Thank you, military, may you be heard when you pray America’s leadership understands that if we’re in it, then we’re in it to win it; no half measures. Troops, we are always with you.
- Sarah Palin
Either go all-in or don't go at all.
Wish she had been around to give Bush this advice eleven years ago.
Down goes Obama...Down goes Obama!
We can’t go all in under the current “No Sacrifice for 99% of Americans” war paradigm.
The war against Islam (ISIS is Islam) will probably be the most perilous, harmful, expensive, destructive and longest war the US will have to fight and much of it will take place on home soil.
The United States has refused to commit to winning since WWII.
And in order to win WWII we had to Burn Down Dresden and Osaka.
War is Cruelty, There is no use trying to reform it, The Crueler it is. The Sooner it will be over- William Tecumseh Sherman
Another reason why Sarah Palin needs to be President No. 45.
True that.
Uncivilized people understand only strength, and they understand that Obama isn’t showing ANY. Is there anyone on earth who isn’t laughing at his declaration that “ISIL isn’t Islamic”?
Thankfully we still have folks like Sarah who have no fear of speaking the truth, and who know that so many find it such a hard pill to swallow, you are left with no option but to shove down their throats, even though they are very quick to cough it back up.
Lies on the other hand have a sweet savory taste, they feel so good going down, so easy to digest and a never ending abundance; people get addicted to them, can’t see the lies are killing them; rotting their very being from the inside out until they are walking dead, like zombies mindlessly devouring even the most obvious blatant lies.
I concur. But, the method of fighting wars half-heartedly and not winning began with another President. Truman. And, this has followed for all of these years. Trillions of dollars. Thousands of Americans dead. And the dark forces keep coming.
I guess nobody is surprised that Obamas 9/11 Residential Address to the country starts off with a big old kiss to Islam.
“The war against Islam (ISIS is Islam) will probably be the most perilous, harmful, expensive, destructive and longest war the US will have to fight and much of it will take place on home soil.”
Islam will be a long war, but ISIS itself I don’t think so.
Right now ISIS is concentrated in the open and should be easy to kill if the Air Force has a green light to move quickly.
ISIS has plenty of local enemies who are more than willing to kill every last one of them. What they have lacked is good military leadership- the Iraqi government promoted politically connected fools- and that’s why their army cut and ran. We have people whose expertise is to lead foreign troops into battle- you saw these in the opening salvos of Afghanistan.
Do you suppose he leaves Moochelle as half “F’ed” as he does his job...just curious.
George hung around Bill Clinton too much.
Now we wait for the answer IS has for Obama—My bet it will be written in blood.
I think you could make exceptions with Desert Storm I (Bush Sr.) & II (GWB - Iraq).
That is one of the fundamental principles of Christian Just War Theory:
Never start a war unless you intend to win it.
Otherwise, you have people dying for nothing.
Had to repent from nuking Japan. Have to admit we have perfected the Kings X war tactic.
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