Posted on 09/05/2014 7:16:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
President Obama escalated the American response to the marauding Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Friday, recruiting at least nine allies to help crush the organization and offering the outlines of a coordinated military strategy that echoes the war on terror developed by his predecessor, George W. Bush, more than a decade ago.
In his most expansive comments to date about how the United States and its friends could defeat ISIS, a once-obscure group of Sunni militants that has now upended the Middle East and overshadowed Al Qaeda, Mr. Obama said the effort would rely on American airstrikes against its leaders and positions, strengthen the moderate Syrian rebel groups to reclaim ground lost to ISIS, and enlist friendly governments in the region to join the fight.
While the president’s aides maintained that he has not yet decided to authorize airstrikes in Syria — which he has already done on a limited basis in Iraq — Mr. Obama likened his developing strategy on ISIS to the American effort against Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal regions, which has relied heavily on airstrikes.
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Coalition of the les than willing?
GWB had over forty countries in his coalition, but then again he was hated by the World!
OMG. Seriously?!?! The asshat-in-chief was no doubt schooled by the NATO allies (when he could be bothered to be on time to meet them), yet the Times trumpets that HE “recruits” THEM? BARF.
I didn’t realize that Sarkozy and Berlusconi were still in office.
Worst president since WWII, Quinnipiac poll.
LOL!!
I doubt he had to do much arm twisting.
More like the UK dragged Obama, yelling and screaming.
9 Allies to Help in the Battle Against ISIS
Moe, Larry, Curly........
1.Sneezy
2.Sleepy
3.Dopey
4.Doc
5.Happy
6.Bashful
7.Grumpy
8. The Prince
9. The Witch
(Obama is the Princess of course)
Another fairy tale from the NYTimes.
Do we know for sure which side Turkey is on...???
The real punchline would probably be who this man thinks is our ally.
If you ask me, McVeigh parked his Ryder in front of the wrong building.
They have been asking for it since the Civil War, agitated against a peaceful solution after Secession and for conquest of the south, as well as freeing the slaves and then not repatriating them back to where they came from.
In short,responsible for the murder of millions of Americans by the Federal government and by the descendants of freed slaves, and our coming third world status.
A 150 year record of relentless smear attacks and propaganda against real Americans.
NYT OUT!!!
Are they the kind of countries you can buy on eBay, as Biden put it about W?
But even after that money is approved, American officials will face obstacles in strengthening the Free Syrian Army, the moderates of choice for the United States. “This is going to take months,” one Defense Department official said on Friday.”
I can't believe this. ISIS came out of the supposedly “moderate” FSA. They pretend to be moderate when they are asking for U.S. money and arms. Then when they get the funding they use it to attack.
So I guess the libs in Britain won’t be laughing at Poland now like they did when they were part of the much larger coalition Bush built?
We all know who “Dopey” is.
Were we worthy for this fight we wouldn’t have to “recruit” anyone. They’d naturally follow the Winner.
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