Posted on 09/11/2014 9:25:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” Samuel Johnson said. A few centuries later his fellow Englishman, Winston Churchill, quipped, “The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.”
It’s not true of the United States, but it is true of Barack Obama who, having exhausted every alternative that involved appeasement or pretending that ISIS wasn’t a threat, has decided to do the right thing.
As long as he gets enough applause for doing it.
With his approval ratings, particularly on American leadership and national security, lower than Assad’s, he decided to exploit September 11 to butch up his foreign policy image.
After spending the last few years ignoring ISIS, he delivered a carefully timed speech vowing to take it on. The speech might have been a little more credible if it had not come from the man whose inaction allowed ISIS to take over parts of Iraq and Syria and who early this year was dismissing it as a JV team.
The scoundrel who lied and claimed that he had defeated Al Qaeda has been reborn again as a patriot who is promising to… defeat Al Qaeda. Even his usual boast of defeating Al Qaeda has been carefully walked back to a claim of having defeated “much of al-Qaida’s leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan”.
That brief moment of near honesty is diminished only by the fact that the war on Al Qaeda had moved on to the Middle East long before Obama even took office. It was Obama who decided to divert away from fighting Al Qaeda in the Middle East on a failed attempt to defeat the Taliban and an even more failed attempt to negotiate peace with the “moderate” Taliban.
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In this case, the money will be used help hand the ME over to the Islamists. This jerk should not be allowed a cent of discretion in how any money appropriated is spent.
“..has decided to do the right thing. As long as he gets enough applause for doing it.”
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Based on long standing experience with what this ‘president’ says, versus what he does, he has NOT decided to do the right thing. He never has, and never will. Weak, obvious lies in this so-called speech just served to reinforce the ongoing deception that will fill the next two years. As well as emboldening the IS and every other enemy of America, while horrifying our allies.
And the Congress keeps on fiddling while America burns.
The very fact Obama denies that the Islamic State is Islamic scares me more than his empty too-late rhetoric.
So the lyin’ king gave a speech last night. Do we know any more about his ‘strategy’ now than we did a day ago?
Nope.
Obama’s history of trying to solve problems tells us that whatever he does makes matters worse. We will regret dragging him away from his golf game.
‘Terror update:’ Controversial anti-ISIS coloring book featuring tortures hits stores
http://rt.com/usa/185584-anti-terrorist-coloring-book/
Fight ISIS by arming ISIS is exactly it.
There are GOPe who adhere to this fairy tale of good Syrian opposition.
Obama will take this opportunity to help the Islamists conquer Assad. Big mistake. AGAIN.
America might survive the next 15 months, if we ignore anything this lame duck proposes, and encourage him to vacation and play golf for the rest of his term.
He’s got a great sense of timing: `carrying water’ for Islam (which is not unusual) but on 9-11 eve? TOTUS must be on vacation. Hey democrats, thanks for this turkey! Morons.
With defective weapons?
He fights unemployment by killing jobs, he fights rising healthcare costs by increasing healthcare costs, he creates transparency by being opaque, he strengthens our borders by making them more porous, he improves race relations by creating more division.... so I guess his war strategy makes perfect sense.
for later read
Is this new “strategy” to be a douche?
The anti christ is being the anti christ, who knew?
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