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Obama’s half-hearted war on terror
nypost.com ^ | Sept. 21, 2014 | Michael Goodwin

Posted on 09/21/2014 7:07:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Edited on 09/21/2014 7:19:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The quote of the week comes from James Clapper, the director of national intelligence. Noting that criticism of surveillance programs forced the government to “throttle back,” he told The Washington Post that means “we are accepting more risk.”

Tapping a deep well of sarcasm, he continued: “We are supposed to keep the country safe, predict anticipatory intelligence, with no risk, and no embarrassment if revealed, and without a scintilla of jeopardy to privacy of any domestic person or foreign person. We call that ‘immaculate collection.’ ”

Bingo!

Clapper’s mission-impossible statement is more than justified, and not just in matters of intelligence gathering. He might have been talking about the public’s view of fighting terrorism, too.

Americans are against terrorism, wholeheartedly. And want to do something about it — halfheartedly.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; isil; isis; israel; kenyanbornmuzzie; levant; russia; syria

1 posted on 09/21/2014 7:07:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
What could go wrong with such a genius strategy?


2 posted on 09/21/2014 7:12:40 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RoosterRedux

He is just gettin’ even with whitey, as promised so many times over and over in his writings and speeches. Its what he was raised to do by the likes of Frank Marshall Davis and Jeremiah Wright.


3 posted on 09/21/2014 7:13:38 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

Don, you’ve said it all and just NAILED it.

This should be no suprrise to anyone with ears to listen with.


4 posted on 09/21/2014 7:22:14 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: RoosterRedux

obama wont really fight them because he helped create them and IS ONE OF THEM... commie muslim traitor 2nd Benedict arnold...


5 posted on 09/21/2014 7:32:59 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: RoosterRedux

Obama is the JV....


6 posted on 09/21/2014 7:52:40 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

He and his handlers know what they’re doing. Let the terror come to the US, then declare martial law. He can be president for life.


7 posted on 09/21/2014 8:06:19 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: fatnotlazy
Obie is1




8 posted on 09/21/2014 8:08:21 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: Travis McGee

How many times did he use the term ISIL in his speech tonight - he did not use ISIS at all.

SOME OF YOU KNOW THIS. . . . BUT FOR THOSE WHO DON’T, CONSIDER IT PART OF YOUR CONTINUING EDUCATION!!

Here’s a good explanation of the difference in the terms being used.

What is the significance of Obama and his administration using the term ISIL - when nearly the whole world is using the term ISIS or IS?

The letter “L” in ISIL refers to the “Levant”.

What is the “Levant”?

Just as the word “Orient” identifies a specific region in the Far East, the word “Levant” identifies a specific territory in the area of the eastern Mediterranean.

Israel, Lebanon, part of Syria, and western Jordan presently occupy the land which is encompassed by the term “Levant”.

The “Levant” is considered by Muslims to be key territory belonging to their caliphate. The southern part of the “Levant” during Biblical times was referred to as Canaan.

Using ISIL, rather than ISIS, conveys a message to Muslims that Israel is not to be considered separate or exempt from Islamic ownership, now, or in the future.

To use the term ISIL is a specific act of insult against YHVH, against His Word, and against His people.

ISIS refers to an Islamic State, but ISIL gives that state credibility, right, and boundaries … boundaries that erase Israel as a nation in YHVH’s territory.

Every time I hear Obama or his administration use that term ISIL - I shout, “NO!!” in my spirit.

Someone needs to educate the media and the US citizens to stop using this term.

Clearly, Mr. Obama knows quite well what he is saying because he continues to use ISIL - even when reporters speaking with him use ISIS.

It is a message, that I’m sure, Benjamin Netanyahu is hearing very clearly.


9 posted on 09/21/2014 8:09:42 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: fatnotlazy; Mark17; Kartographer; F15Eagle

How many times did he use the term ISIL in his speech tonight - he did not use ISIS at all.

SOME OF YOU KNOW THIS. . . . BUT FOR THOSE WHO DON’T, CONSIDER IT PART OF YOUR CONTINUING EDUCATION!!

Here’s a good explanation of the difference in the terms being used.

What is the significance of Obama and his administration using the term ISIL - when nearly the whole world is using the term ISIS or IS?

The letter “L” in ISIL refers to the “Levant”.

What is the “Levant”?

Just as the word “Orient” identifies a specific region in the Far East, the word “Levant” identifies a specific territory in the area of the eastern Mediterranean.

Israel, Lebanon, part of Syria, and western Jordan presently occupy the land which is encompassed by the term “Levant”.

The “Levant” is considered by Muslims to be key territory belonging to their caliphate. The southern part of the “Levant” during Biblical times was referred to as Canaan.

Using ISIL, rather than ISIS, conveys a message to Muslims that Israel is not to be considered separate or exempt from Islamic ownership, now, or in the future.

To use the term ISIL is a specific act of insult against YHVH, against His Word, and against His people.

ISIS refers to an Islamic State, but ISIL gives that state credibility, right, and boundaries … boundaries that erase Israel as a nation in YHVH’s territory.

Every time I hear Obama or his administration use that term ISIL - I shout, “NO!!” in my spirit.

Someone needs to educate the media and the US citizens to stop using this term.

Clearly, Mr. Obama knows quite well what he is saying because he continues to use ISIL - even when reporters speaking with him use ISIS.

It is a message, that I’m sure, Benjamin Netanyahu is hearing very clearly.


10 posted on 09/21/2014 8:18:07 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The reason he will not supply what is needed to fight them is because he stated he would remove our troop from Iraq and democrats can never be wrong. He will resist putting troops in Iraq again to the death. He will not say he was wrong no matter what. He is a slob.


11 posted on 09/21/2014 8:20:09 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: fatnotlazy

He and his handlers know what they’re doing. Let the terror come to the US, then declare martial law. He can be president for life.

I’ve been saying that since 2012.


12 posted on 09/21/2014 8:31:25 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Obama is the JV....

There's a title desperately in need of a book about the relationship between Iranian born Valerie Jarrett and obama:

VJ and the JV

13 posted on 09/21/2014 8:40:50 AM PDT by null and void (Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Never has an American leader pursued a war in which his greatest concern was offending our enemy. Theater of the absurd is now official policy.


14 posted on 09/21/2014 9:32:30 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: RoosterRedux

The government, overall led by an ideology which lives in denial of the fallen nature of man, and the measures needed to deal with it, missed the best opportunity to deal most effectively with ISIS when they were operating with impunity and concentrated apart from a fleeing populace.

But they hardly could be ready to do so as professors and students of said ideology finds the reality of such evil as a very uncomfortable and unwanted reminder of the depravity of man, and greatly resists acknowledging it, and have to be compelled to do something to deal with it, but which is mainly driven by self interest. (This is why liberals will call the police when they are threatened, bit otherwise tend to protest any real visible use of force, and to see those in prison as victims.)

For instead they vainly try to imagine all such evil will just go away by ignoring it, as it is all part of a bygone era which ended with George Bush, who spoke of things as evil or good in a world they only see as good and grey.

And which era has ended with the rising of their political Messiah, her to transform America into His image, and who must reign till he hath put all his enemies (from those who do not subscribe to his victim-entitlement mentality, to raising the flag of Sodom, to those who oppose government mandated diets) under his feet.

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. (Hosea 8:3-4)

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; (Acts 3:19)


15 posted on 09/21/2014 10:03:07 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: freeangel
He is begging for this to occur what with his open border policy. It is just a matter of time and two years ought to be plenty. EMPEROR FOR LIFE!!


16 posted on 09/21/2014 12:57:01 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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