Posted on 09/03/2014 10:47:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In spite the Islamic States ritualistic beheadings of American citizens, President Barack Obama remains committed to addressing the threat posed by ISIS by internationalizing the response.
If we are joined by the international community, Obama said on Wednesday, we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem.
The question is going to be making sure we’ve got the right strategy but also making sure we’ve got the international will to do it, he added. And what we’ve got to do is make sure that we are organizing the Arab world, the Middle East, the Muslim world, along with the international community to isolate this cancer.
This is a laudable goal, but only to the point that it does not justify passivity or inaction. Too many in the media are, however, consumed with celebrating the idea of multilateralism for its own sake as part of a philosophical rejection of an idea of the Bush-era. And it is only an idea.
26 days after the September 11 attacks, Operation Enduring Freedom commenced in Afghanistan. The campaign to oust the Taliban from power, rid the region of al-Qaeda, and build a sustainable post-war Afghan government eventually involved 58 nations, many of them non-NATO members. In Iraq, 45 nations joined the United States in the March, 2003 mission to oust Saddam Hussein from control in Baghdad. By April, Angola and Ukraine had committed to joining the mission, raising total number of coalition countries including the United States to 48.
Traditional American allies like Canada, France, and Germany objected and refused to participate in initial combat operations. The United Nations, too, declined to sanction the campaign to change the regime in Iraq.
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“The United Nations, too, declined to sanction the campaign to change the regime in Iraq.”
We were in Irag because of the UN.
Because he’s a Republican....................
To protect and promote a false narrative that gives their political buddies power.
For the same reason they keep sticking to the lie that there were no WMDs in Iraq, that they later reported were found by ISIS...
As Mark Steyn just pointed out on Rush’s show, Obama has no friends among our European allies. Bush was friends with Blair, Merkel, the French guy (my mind is slipping!), the Australian head and, infamously now, Putin. Who is Obama friendly with? No one. He’s incapable of international friendship because, again, as Steyn pointed out, he’s bored by them.
Is he still referring to them as ISIL? I thought I heard him say “ISIS” today.
Thus, part of the problem.
A sexual serial pervert now has a high popularity rating and is commanding hundreds of thousands a speech along with his wife and daughter.
Just about everyone has bought into the myth that climate change is the greatest evil of our time.
We have a anti American who made it his mission in life to destroy the military as Sec of State.
All accomplishments based on LIES.
Give him a break. It's hard enough for him to not use the words "my friends" when referring to them.
‘We can continue to shrink ISILs sphere of influence,etc’
He is good at manipulation with his words. WHERE have we ‘shrunk’ anything having to do with ISIS??
The families of a lot of dead British servicemen would have something to say about that.
I assume that headline question is rhetorical
There are, of course, aspects to "support" other than direct military participation, including economic sanctions, medical relief, etc.
What indicates a severe dereliction of duty on the part of the 0bama administration is not that we don't have a military coalition lined up after six months of ISIS military activity, but that it appears only just now to have dawned on the administration, including 0bama and his Secretary of State, that any sort of collective response is anything more but a good idea to be explored later.
Right on, Poland sent in 20 troops to fight with our 600 thousand.
That's a coalition.
RE: Who is Obama friendly with?
Hugo Chavez just died. Is Nicolas Maduro his friend?
More interesting is how Bush is the only thing winning the war on terror now.
many people miss that Bush’s multilateralism had such profound positive effects that it moved other national politics to the right.
Stephen Harper in Canada is one profound example of this and he is a staunch ally of Israel and opponent of terrorism. Several electorates moved to the right as Bush finished his second term.
Even the carrier George Bush [lsenior] is the principal launching point for strikes in Iraq now.
The vacuous logic of Obama and Hillary is being revealed. The RESET for Russia and the de-enemizing terrorists of Jarret/ Obama is seen for the naked incitement to aggression that it is.
Bush won and is still winning. The fact that he is still blamed proves that Bush is now serving a fourth term in the hearts and minds of patriots. All across the world, people can see plainly the bland anti-Americanism of our current leadership. They are committed to undermining American exceptionalism wherever possible.
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