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Obama says does not yet have broad strategy for Islamic State
Yahoo News ^ | 28 Aug 2014 | Steve Holland and Patricia Zengerle

Posted on 08/28/2014 3:58:01 PM PDT by mandaladon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he has not yet developed a broad strategy for confronting Islamic State in an acknowledgement that he has not decided whether to launch air strikes against the militant group in Syria.

"We don't have a strategy yet," Obama told a White House news conference ahead of meeting top national security advisers in the Situation Room about how to proceed against Islamic State.

Obama, who shied away from launching airstrikes in Syria a year ago to punish Syrian President Bashir al-Assad for use of chemical weapons against his own people, has been reticent about getting involved in Syria's civil war, where he believes there are few good options for the United States to pursue. Obama's decision to begin U.S. surveillance flights over Syria earlier this week prompted speculation that he was on the brink of expanding the fight against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria, prompting criticism from some lawmakers who worry they have not been properly consulted.

There has been a growing call from both Republicans and Obama's fellow Democrats in Congress for lawmakers to vote on whether the United States should broaden its action against the Islamic State.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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OBAMA: 'WE DON'T HAVE A STRATEGY YET' I've been golfin', man!
1 posted on 08/28/2014 3:58:01 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Give him a snocone. He understands those.


2 posted on 08/28/2014 3:59:07 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: mandaladon

The undocumented Tyrant is ... jealous.

His only plan was to destroy American security,
economy, and justice.


3 posted on 08/28/2014 3:59:41 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: mandaladon

I once had a broad strategy but then I met her sister.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 4:00:14 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: mandaladon
"We don't have a strategy yet,"

Yes he does!

He is just trying to figure out a way to break it to us gently.

5 posted on 08/28/2014 4:01:16 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Diogenesis

Don’t need no steenkin strategy. Jisbomem.


6 posted on 08/28/2014 4:01:54 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: mandaladon
Obama says does not yet have broad strategy for Islamic State

I thought his strategy was working as planned.

7 posted on 08/28/2014 4:02:32 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: mandaladon

I thought he had a strategy: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Right?


8 posted on 08/28/2014 4:04:58 PM PDT by Shannon
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To: mandaladon

He needs to watch a another 24 hour cycle of CNN on ISIS before he can formulate a policy. It’s all on his shoulder’s man. Lay off.


9 posted on 08/28/2014 4:05:25 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: mandaladon
ISIS took Fallujah in Jan.

He's had 7 months to get a strategy together.

10 posted on 08/28/2014 4:08:12 PM PDT by what's up
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To: mandaladon

Sure he does. He’s probably arranging airlift transport for them to the US as we speak.


11 posted on 08/28/2014 4:09:01 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Louis Foxwell

If the truth be told, he doesn’t have a strategy for ANY problem we face.


12 posted on 08/28/2014 4:12:05 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: mandaladon

Obama says does not yet have broad strategy for Islamic State in America


13 posted on 08/28/2014 4:17:19 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Does Clown Prince nobama have a strategy to avoid what he deserves: extensive prison time followed by exile when he is too fragile to walk?


14 posted on 08/28/2014 4:21:16 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: PIF

Bingo.

Step One: Establish the Caliphate here and everywhere.
Step Two: Develop broad strategy for how he will run the Caliphate.


15 posted on 08/28/2014 4:21:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: PIF

it’s coming.

First he has to go to his carpet in the closet to kneel down to pray for their safety, success in Christian cleansing and ultimate victory overseas.
All at America’s financial expense.


16 posted on 08/28/2014 4:25:40 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: blueunicorn6
Give him a snocone. He understands those.

"Pay attention, dad. You put the straw in this way and..."


17 posted on 08/28/2014 4:27:32 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: fhayek

Not quite. He has a clear strategy for destroying us economically, dividing the races, promoting homosexuality, enforcing abortion, government control of medical care, swelling welfare rolls, and, in general, insuring the institutionalization of the US. What he does not have a strategy for is saving the US from its sworn enemies, undoubtedly because he is one of them.


18 posted on 08/28/2014 4:28:03 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: mandaladon

The Marxist just gave the green light to Islamic State terrorists.


19 posted on 08/28/2014 4:36:30 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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20 posted on 08/28/2014 4:37:22 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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