Posted on 11/15/2015 3:22:19 PM PST by rickmichaels
Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was forced several times today to clarify a comment made by President Obama that aired Friday morning hours before ISIS terrorists murdered more than 125 in Paris.
'I don't think they're gaining strength,' Obama had said of the terrorist organization on Good Morning America. 'What is true is that from the start our goal has been first to contain them and we have contained them.'
Contained, said Rhodes, was simply meant in terms of geography.
'The president was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria,' Rhodes told ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos.
On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace also brought up Obama's comments, asking Rhodes if the administration had 'profoundly misjudged' the ISIS threat in light of the violent Parisian attacks. Rhodes noted that taking out ISIS would be a 'longterm challenge.' 'What the president was referring to very specifically was we had to stop their geographic advance in Iraq and Syria, where they were gaining more territory,' Rhodes said. 'We had done that.' Rhodes pointed out that ISIS had been rolled back in Northern Iraq and Northern and Eastern Syria.
'That's necessary to shrink the space they operate in,' he said, noting that the fighters 'very much depend on their safe havens' in the two war-torn countries.
'But that does not eliminate the threat as you saw so tragically in Paris,' Rhodes said.
CNN's Jake Tapper, host of State of the Union, acted even more incredulous when posing questions to Rhodes.
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He’s right - its contained on the earth. . . . . .
Had a Republican made an idiotic comment like that there would be skywriters aloft plastering it all over the skies and media wonks bleating it ceaselessly from day to day and week to week.
So can Obama locate Paris on a map?
HA! bumping that!
Damn Liar!
No one believes you o’Bongo
You lie! High crimes, treason.
Ben Rhodes: JV waterboy.
Oh yeah, Right, Sure.
The whitehouse insists on calling them ISIL while the rest of the world calls them ISIS.
Hussein does his biz with the WOE, not SAMS CLUB
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Did he say this after the fact? That makes him a real :&;@($;’ if he did! Plus, walls mean nothing if someone can walk in, acting friendly, and then stick you with a good blade...
The British fought a 17th century war against us in 1776; Robert E. Lee fought an 18th century war against the Union; Obama is not fighting but what is being done is still stuck in the 20th century and is based on the false premise that the enemy is in a locality, i.e., the ME.
If the ruling two women say it, IT IS SO !!!
Val, and Mooch are his entire world of info....
Some parts, yes.
Obama: “ISIS is contained to North America, Europe, Asia and Africa”
The left is up to their usual idiotic tricks. They are blaming guns. Blaming intolerance. Blaming racism. Blaming global warming.
Blaming everything but Islam and Muslim immigrants.
These are Obama's allies.
Watch this chilling message from ISIS to us.
Obama's handiwork. Merkel & Hollande's folly.
They will not let a good atrocity go to waste in an effort to further their left wing agenda.
When Iraq asked for help two years ago, you told them they had to take care of themselves.
Yesterday, you blamed it on Snowden.
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