Posted on 09/13/2014 4:55:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I was overseas when Obama gave his momentous Isis address, but figured I could pretty much guess how things would go. Despite being the greatest orator of the last thousand years, he's a complete bust at selling anything but himself, as comprehensively demonstrated in his first couple of years: see his rhetorical efforts on behalf of ObamaCare, or Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley, or Chicago's Olympics bid. When it comes to war, he suffers from an additional burden: before he can persuade anybody else, he first has to persuade himself. And he can't do it. So he gave the usual listless performance of a surly actor who resents the part he's been given. It's not just the accumulation of equivocations and qualifications - the "Islamic State" is not Islamic, our war with them is not a war, there'll be no boots on the ground except the exotic footwear of a vast unspecified coalition - but something more basic: What he mainly communicates is that he doesn't mean it.
That's what the jihadist militias now in control of Tripoli understood about his "leading from behind". That's what Putin grasped about Obama's "red line" in Syria. And that's what any Isis member who took time out of his beheading schedule to watch the President on CNN International will have taken away from this week's speech.
As for the "coalition", they seem to intuit that, with a leader leading from this far behind, you want to stand even further back. From mellifluously named Jacaranda FM:
Turkey refuses to allow a US-led coalition to attack jihadists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria from its air bases, nor will it take part in combat operations against militants, a government official told AFP Thursday.
So much for the only Nato member to border Isis.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Savagely masterful!
I asked a liberal acquaintance that what was it that Obama who is supposed to get the world to like us, who is supposed to be such a great uniter, could only get a handful of countries to support him when President Bush was able to assemble a coalition of 40 nations.
crickets...
Riddle me this. Even though the U.S. has an incompetent leader, why aren’t other nations concerned about the slaughter of Chiristians? Do they think they are immune to ISIS or any other deranged group? I mean ISIS is crucifying Christians as an example to what will happen if they don’t convert. Similar to what the Romans did. At some point other countries have to wake up to the fact that terrorists can not be pacified by talking to them. They have to be destroyed.
Just my dos centavos.
BTTT
No boots on the ground but lotsa air Jordan’s on the ground.
I almost feel bad for President Obama to see him subjected to such scorn and ridicule.
Any “coalition” is a delusion of an insane government run by Clown Prince nobama. Aren’t there any patriots in government to control this anti-American traitor?
I don’t feel bad for him at all; he deserves every bit of it and more.
He should be on Dancing With The Stars - dancing the Tyburn Jig.
That's a great line.
Steyn ping.
"We have reached a low point of trust in this administration," he said. "We think in a time of crisis Mr. Obama will walk away from everyone if it means saving his own skin."
While the other putative members of the coalition didn't speak so bluntly, this is what they were all thinking.
I dare say that nothing like this has ever been said about any prior U.S. President.
Let's face it. No responsible world leader is going to commit their young men and women to combat under Zero's banner. Nor should they.
Indeed, should we...???
What a national embarrassment. It will take this country decades to regain respect in this world. And that’s only if we can turn this sinking ship around...
Exactly.
Where is everybody? Why aren’t they concerned?
Same deal as before
Same deal as before that and before that.
I’m personally sick of going to help Muslims getting overrun and/or slaughtered by other Muslims and no other Muslims do anything about it but complain their asses off if the USA does anything
Sick, sick, sick of it.
And what are the Christians doing doing sitting over there in the middle of all that? Don’t they read history? Don’t they know what they are in for? Yet they sit there like stunned ducklings when bad stuff happens in the Middle East.
It’s the Middle East for God’s sake. CAN YOU READ? CAN YOU HEAR? CAN YOU PAY ATTENTION?
Why is it we are the ones that always have to go over there and ‘save’ everyone ... except we always get sh!t for it if we do.
Does anyone remember Kuwait ever thanking us?
Hello? Hello?
I didn’t think so.
This is total 100% unadulterated BS ... us having to go over there AGAIN.
No.
Just no.
When you’re running from an alligator you only have to run faster than the guy behind you...
Does anyone really believe the kaboom thing was an accident?
It’s further proof of 0bama as a terror head. Likely AQ.
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