Posted on 11/15/2015 4:42:55 PM PST by markomalley
Mitt Romney is blaming President Obama for "doing the minimum" to fight the Islamic State.
In an op-ed published Sunday, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate criticized Obama for having said "we have contained" the Islamic State in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos one day before a series of attacks hit Paris, for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility. Romney said the U.S. needs to "eradicate" the Islamic State, not contain it.
"The president was right when he called the Islamic State a cancer," Romney said, "but it is a cancer that metastasized on his watch. Paris is proof."
The U.S. year-long airstrike campaign has not been sufficient, Romney added, and called for military experts from the U.S. and NATO to create a comprehensive strategy that would incorporate the forces of the Kurds, Turks, Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians.
His remarks come as France launched airstrikes against the Islamic State on Sunday, carried out in coordination with U.S. forces, in retaliation for the terror attacks in Paris that left 127 dead and over 350 injured.
Romney decried the Islamic State's propaganda campaign and urged Muslim nations to come together and "immediately engage in a sustained global campaign to promote tolerance and eschew violence."
Romney also addressed the potential threat of the stream of refugees escaping conflicts in the Middle East, one day after a Greek official announced that a Syrian passport was reportedly found near the body of one of the gunmen responsible for the Paris attacks. A Greek official announced that the passport was processed on a Greek island in March.
"The West must stop the insanity of welcoming hundreds of thousands of people from the Middle East without knowing who exactly they are," Romney said.
"Only America can lead this war, and that leadership means being willing to devote whatever resources are required to win — even boots on the ground," Romney continued. "We have the best-equipped and most dedicated military for good reason. The president must stop trying to placate his political base by saying what he won't do and tell Americans what he will do."
Even Romney knows how ridiculous Obama is on this issue
John McCain has been even more vocal than Obama in supporting the opposition groups in Syria. This support led to the creation of Islamic State and the terror it has unleashed.
People like Mitt Romney in the GOP are just as culpable as Obama in making his mess what it is.......
Yes Mitt, and who’s fault is that you cream puff?
In Mormon terms, Romney was presented with his Nephi-Laban moment. But unlike Nephi, who was even himself reluctant, Romney didn’t have the courage to finish him off. Instead, Romney became a Gadianton appeaser. (Gadianton being the evil leader of a group intent upon destroying the freedom of the people).
Mitt’s time has passed. He failed the test. He refused to fight. He is no Captain Moroni. Cruz and Trump fit that description. Romney does not.
Romney would do well to re-read the scriptures in the Book of Mormon and Doctrine & Covenants in regards to the Constitution, freedom, leadership, tyranny and the voice of the people.
If you really want to upset Romney, refer to him as a Gadianton appeaser.
The candidate who gets the most votes wins. There’s your civics lesson. Hope it helps cure your ignorance.
If you voted for Romney, you’re not one of the fools I was referring to. I was talking to the “I didn’t vote for Romney ‘cause he ain’t no conservative” idiots.
So join with me voting for a conservative and the conservative will win.
See? You can be taught after all.
Really? What conservative won in 2008 and 2012? See? You can cut off your nose to spite your face, but we have to look at you.
Did you vote for conservatives? Or did you not?
Romney is not a conservative. Nor are Mitch/Jonbon. Keep that in mind.
Had you joined with us we might have elected some. If you did not, you got what you voted FOR. Don’t complain.
I voted for Romney to vote against Obama. You seem to be too stupid to realize that, Norm. I’ll complain any time people help Obama get elected. Keep that in mind.
Civics 101 Remedial class is in session. Your Teacher will Me Mrs. Finny.
Another one that votes without understanding how elections work, Finny.
Your ignorance is ironic. You refuse to vote against RATS and then accuse others of not knowing how elections work. You aren’t bright, Norm.
I voted against liberals. You voted for an abortion profiteering/funding/legislating father of Homo marriage in America that holds funding/strategy retreats to torpedo conservative candidates and who invented Romney/Obamacare.
You are in no position to tell ANYONE about voting for RATS.
Yeah, we’re not doing this anymore. You won’t admit you helped elect Obama, but you did. You’ll probably help Hillary next year. So long, useful idiot.
Even when you vote "against" a proposition (vote yes or no on Prop X), what you are doing is voting for nixing that proposition.
Fantasies and fallacies like voting "against" results in many evils, including folks who say, when a guy like Romney wins and starts implementing his leftist agenda, "Don't blame me -- I didn't vote for the guy, I voted against Obama!"
Guess what? The vote was ONE AND THE SAME.
See my tagline.
Yes, I voted for Romney. I wish he was President. Apparently you prefer Obama, since you helped him get elected. I’m done arguing with idiots who think they have “principles”.
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