Posted on 09/13/2014 9:05:29 AM PDT by rktman
Via Breitbart, another dim attempt by the White House to keep this new Iraq intervention in Americans’ rhetorical comfort zone. “Wars” are long, involve vast numbers of fighters on both sides, and absorb much blood and treasure; our “victories” in war lately tend to be unsatisfying and ephemeral too. “Counterterrorism,” though, is lightning fast, typically involves a small number of military assets, and is usually decisive. (It also conveniently doesn’t require a new AUMF.) The Bin Laden raid is the supreme example. By the White House’s own reckoning, rolling back ISIS will take three years at least, already involves a thousand U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq and lots of U.S. airpower, and requires a coalition of many nations, both regionally and in the west, to implement. According to the CIA, ISIS itself has somewhere between 20,000 and 31,500 jihadi guerrillas in the field. Which model, war or counterterrorism, seems to you a better fit for that situation?
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We defeated Germany AND Japan in 3 years, 7 months.
So why the ‘3 years’ ? To limp along until Jan 2017 - when there’s likely to be a rep. Pres. - to dump it on them - while giving ISIS 3 years to gain strength? (and maybe be appointed the new Caliph? )
Since you knew about ISIS and their plans a year ago Or more - and did nothing 0 except maybe get more arms to them - why no action before?
And when they first stepped over the Iraq border, you could have wiped them out in one fell swoop, right there - before they took over the major cities and got their hands on all our military machines, ammo and guns - and the millions from the bank -
You sure did up-arm them
Has she explained the difference to Obama and Kerry?
It’s a Bammy Counterintelligent operation.
Possibly the most stupid woman ever. And she walks like a man.
She does not do much for the “war” on women.
She totally walks like a man. It’s disconcerting
Anyway, her educational bio reads like an Ivy League rap sheet, with all kinds of awards and Rhodes scholarships. And intertwined is a lot of ‘we didn’t get here just because we’re black...’
And for all of that she married a news producer. Gee where’s the connection?
These democrat party operatives. Yikes they are slithery
This rice chronic liar and fool is a poster child for affirmative action: a know-nothing, done-nothing-useful loser. If it weren’t for her melanin and her family connections she would be cleaning restrooms in a cheesy casino...or sitting around getting an EBT card in subsidized housing. LOSER writ large.
Anyone else notice how the number of guerrillas ISIS has in the field keeps creeping upwards? Not long ago they were saying they might have 10,000, now it's at least double that.
If the truth were told, everyone Caliph Obama has armed in Libya and Syria is part of ISIS but they're never going to admit that. Maybe someone at the CIA will be fed up enough to pull a Snowden and leak the facts but barring that, it'll just be another series of lies hiding the earlier lies.
There’s a difference between a douche and a donut, but I’ve yet to meet a leftie with the intellectual capacity to grasp the concept, so chow down Susan.
It’s a fine time to be quoting Ms. Rice, Bloviator for POTUS as well as a notable critic for certain videos.....
Very good. (The American people have confused “glibness” with intelligence and ability. This administration has all the disabilities of their demographic’ i.e. low intelligence and lack of impulse control.)
Thanks rktman. And remember, JFK, RFK, LBJ, and HHH didn’t have a war, they had a police action.
Turkey has denied the use of Turkish airbases in the fight against ISIS.
Zero *is* in it to win it — just not for the US.
She’s married to a NEWS PRODUCER??? I thought she was a LESBIAN!!
Winning is term that progressives think only applies to politics.
DEMOCRATS’ LEGACY OF FAILURE
America can survive a Jimmy Carter and a Barack Obama. The real question is, can America survive its misinformed, class envious and easily distracted citizenry?
By Klaus Rohrich
CANADA FREE PRESS - September 13, 2014
Back during the 2008 presidential campaign a lot of conservatives predicted that if Obama were elected president his administration would amount to Jimmy Carter’s second term. Little did anyone at the time realize just how prescient those predictions turned out to be.
After all, it was Jimmy Carter that enabled Islamic fundamentalism to take root in Iran through his support in deposing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It’s very likely true that the Shah was a son-of-a-gun that established SAVAK, a secret police force that brutally suppressed any political opposition against the regime. But in point of fact, he was our son-of-a-gun who supported progress and to a great degree, western ideals.
It was under the Shah’s rule that Iranian women gained the right to an education, a development that was much lamented by connoisseurs of fine Persian rugs, because young Iranian girls went to school instead of spending their days hand tying thousands of tiny knots to form exquisite and expensive carpets.
Of course, the witless Jimmy Carter was very concerned about human rights abuses in Iran and through his various machinations created the conditions under which Ayatollah Khomeini was able to seize power from the Shah, and thus replace the hated SAVAK with the current SAVAMA, an organization whose brutality far exceeds that of SAVAK.
Khomeini rewarded the hapless Carter by invading the US Embassy in Tehran and holding American Diplomats hostage for 444 days, releasing them on the very day Ronald Reagan was sworn is as President. There’s little reason to ask why, because we all know what Reagan would have done had those hostages not been released.
Jimmy Carter’s “foreign” “policy” is directly responsible for the resurgence of fundamental Islam in the Middle East
Thus Jimmy Carter’s “foreign” “policy” is directly responsible for the resurgence of fundamental Islam in the Middle East, among numerous other disasters, both foreign and domestic.
Nearly 4 decades later another Democrat President takes up where Jimmy Carter left off, naively and narcissistically believing that he could tame the Islamist beast. He started with his Cairo apology tour, recounting how evil America had in the past mistreated Islam and under his administration this mistreatment would be rectified.
Of course, no such thing has happened. In fact, the damage this President has done far exceeds anything for which the clumsy and misguided Carter is responsible. The so-called Arab Spring was a Pollyanna fantasy that belied reality. Obama’s claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is a secular organization is akin to claiming that the Vatican isn’t Catholic. And many Americans, as well as America’s traditional allies, believe that Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood and all it stands for.
How else could one explain the administration’s support for the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, who kept Egypt out of the grasp of Islamists for over 30 years? And when the Muslim Brotherhood finally gained control of Egypt their policies revealed a dark and evil agenda that included the destruction of Israel, imposition of extreme Sharia law and persecution of Christians and other religious minorities.
This is what the President of the United States supported? Really?!
Thankfully, the Egyptian army couldn’t stomach Egypt regressing into a medieval cesspool and quickly eliminated the Islamists, including the despicable Mohammad Morsi, whose favorite names for Jews was “pigs” and “monkeys”.
It’s a small wonder that so many Americans suspect Obama of secretly being a Muslim. If there wasn’t so much evidence of his bumbling incompetence, one could believe that he had a hidden agenda to strengthen Islamist influence around the world.
THE REST OF THE ARTICLE
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65999
Oh, I know. The two are not mutually exclusive in those circles
Oh, I know. The two are not mutually exclusive in those circles
“You can’t understand what I’m saying, can you”
snip
“The 1 shines
And people forget”
.. . .. . .
“Behind an eminence front
Eminence front - It’s a put on.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HTVMh7fur4
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