Clueless Planless

Townhall.com ^ | June 11, 2015 | Michael Reagan

[Kaslin]

We've known for a long time that Barrack Obama is clueless when it comes to dealing with what's left of Iraq.

Now we also know he's still planless.

Our president was in Europe earlier this week at a "Group of Seven" conference, where he met with leaders of the world's seven most industrialized economies.

During his concluding remarks he made news when he said his top security advisers were still working on a plan for how to train Iraq defense forces to fight ISIS.

"We don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the Iraqis," the president said.

He said the current problem had something to do with the central government of Iraq having trouble recruiting soldiers.

That confession reminded Republicans like House Speaker John Boehner what the president said 10 bloody months ago - that he was still trying to figure out how to fight ISIS. "We don't have a strategy yet," Obama said.

When it comes to foreign policy, the president and his hapless crew of advisers have had a chronic "strategerie" problem since 2008.

But the deep-down problem Obama has is that he simply doesn't know how to be the leader of the United States.

He still thinks it's all about announcing plans and asking the United Nations for permission to act like an American president.

Do you remember Ronald Reagan announcing plans for our warplanes to bomb Kaddafi's house in Tripoli?

Or announcing we were going to go into Grenada? Or asking the United Nations if it was OK for the United States to do it?

You don't remember, because my father knew what we needed to do regarding Kaddafi and Grenada and he did it. He made his decision and then acted.

Checking with the U.N. - or even Congress - to see if it was OK with them was the last thing on his mind.

It's called leadership. It's called being the president of the United States and knowing when to act like one.

No American president should ever wait for the U.N. to give him its OK on anything.

(And don't worry about those threats that if we give the U.N. the disrespect it deserves it will move its headquarters out of New York City.

(It'll never happen, which is too bad, because the U.N.'s corrupt bureaucrats are too attached to New York. It's where all their hookers live.)

So come on, Mr. President. You were elected president. Wake up and smell the White House coffee.

You have a lot of leading to do, if it's not too late.

Because you and Hillary have been so bad at your jobs, the Middle East has gone back in time a thousand years and collapsed into chaos and war.

Iraq has been broken into pieces. Syria and Libya too. Afghanistan will probably be next, as soon you have us leave.

The rise of ISIS is already a major disaster and will only get worse. A report recently said it has recruited 25,000 followers from 100 countries.

The last thing you should do, Mr. President, is hold a press conference and tell us you still don't have a plan to fight ISIS.

When you tell us that, you're basically admitting to the whole world that you are incompetent.

The world, sadly, already knows that. So do half of the American people. But why have a press conference and put it on the record?

[Thank You Rush]

O’Reilly had Ralph Peters on last night and this was the subject. Absolutely disgusting as just when Peters was trying to explain that the Pentagon brass are weak (clueless) and the decisions about Iraq are made in the WH, Bill interrupted him. He asked if Peters thought Dempsey was weak and again he started to say Dempsey is a good guy but did not rise to his level in the military through - was cut off - but I think he was probably going to say “competence.”

Why in the devil do these guests even bother to accept invitations to go on these shows when most of the FOX hosts are not going to let them finish their answers? It’s just a waste of their time. O’Reilly acted as tho’ he didn’t even know Dempsey is OUT now!

[arthurus]

Hussein is anything but clueless. He operates with different goals defined by his militant Moslem identity. His clues come from a different perspective and do not make sense unless one understands what it is a Moslem strives for. Once that assumption is made all the puzzle pieces interlock in proper and easily perceived order.

[Thank You Rush]

This is all I can find right now and it doesn’t show O’Reilly’s interruptions. I think it’s been touched up as I didn’t hear Peters get to finish his sentences.

The Factor asked Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters for his assessment of the administration’s strategy.
“The president has decided to take advice from his civilian advisers with no military experience,” Peters groused, “rather than from serious military planners. And the problem at the Pentagon is that there is weak leadership at the very top. General Martin Dempsey is a decent guy but he’s been promoted above his capabilities. He doesn’t have the strength of character or the vision to lead this fight. This is an absolutely screwed-up situation, you can not possibly defeat the Islamic State with these air strikes controlled by lawyers.””

[Thank You Rush]

“”O’Reilly acted as tho’ he didn’t even know Dempsey is OUT now!””

Listening to the news tonight, Dempsey is still referred to as Chairman the of Joint Chiefs of Staff. I thought he was GONE!