Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Collapsing Obama Doctrine
Wall Street Journal ^ | 6/17/14 | Dick and Liz Cheney

Posted on 06/17/2014 4:53:18 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Edited on 06/17/2014 8:01:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]


Cheney re Obama: Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama's past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. "If a J.V. team puts on Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant" (January 2014). "[C]ore al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated" (August 2013). "So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding" (September 2011).

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is "ending" the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come crashing into reality. Watching the black-clad ISIS jihadists take territory once secured by American blood is final proof, if any were needed, that America's enemies are not "decimated." They are emboldened and on the march.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alqaedaspring; bigtime; cheney; chickenhawk; dickcheney; failure; impeach; lizcheney; nationalsecurityfail; obama; obamadoctrine; obamafail; obamaforeignpolicy; proislamist; suck; treason
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 141-150 next last
To: SoFloFreeper

Excellent article.

However, there is no coherent opposition movement in the United States challenging the murderous thuggery and muslim nationalistic homo communism of this administration.


81 posted on 06/17/2014 8:33:12 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kevao; Monorprise

Monorprise gave essentially the same response, and I think you both make a good point.


82 posted on 06/17/2014 8:33:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Biggirl

What I meant by that was that if we do a half-a**ed job of going after Obama, he would more or less be inoculated from future moves to impeach unless something simply explosive was revealed.

Once the Senate took a pass on Clinton, he was able to do pretty much what he wanted. They weren’t going to impeach again. The Republicans in the House had already been humiliated once.

I think that same dynamic would play out unless like I said, a bombshell was revealed.


83 posted on 06/17/2014 8:36:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: MasterGunner01

At GS-whatever salaries that’s a half-billion dollars, easily, on annual salary spends. What are they all doing?


84 posted on 06/17/2014 8:39:46 PM PDT by aposiopetic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: SoFloFreeper
If it were incompetence, he would somehow stumble into being right at least some of the time.

But he is on the right side of any issue none of the time.

What does that tell you?

Is it incompetence,... or deliberate planned malice?

85 posted on 06/17/2014 8:55:34 PM PDT by Gritty (The war is over. We won. - Michael Yon, Top Iraq War Correspondent, 07/21/2008)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kevao

Bush’s idiotic “strategery” of playing it cagey, never defending himself against his critics or speaking up against Obama’s treachery, is a lot of the reason why we’re where we are today.


86 posted on 06/17/2014 9:22:11 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("There's always free cheese in a mousetrap." - Marine Col. Peter Martino)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: jonascord

“Does anyone actually know if he is any good at chasing a little white ball? “

This blog, supposedly put together by Hill Staffers, suggests that Obama likes golf primarily for the extra-curricular activities in the club house sauna afterwards.

It makes a list of golfing buddies who are not really good at golf and seem gay.

Also, his golf outings last way too long for a normal round.

http://hillbuzz.org/is-barack-obama-gay/obamas-golfing-buddies


87 posted on 06/17/2014 9:22:25 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Gritty

“Is it incompetence,... or deliberate planned malice? “

It sounds over the top tin foil to say that the President of the US is deliberately trying to hurt the country, but consider the meme of “I found out from the papers myself!” and “The video did it!”

Or, “Gee, we thought everyone would be happy we traded Bergdahl!”

We know these are lies.

Hard not to figure that Obama is faking incompetence to cover nefarious policy.


88 posted on 06/17/2014 9:27:41 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 85 | View Replies]

To: Monorprise
"We will be paying for many decades to come for the willful acts of the Obama Administrator empowering our enemy’s around the world."

One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole economy.


89 posted on 06/17/2014 9:33:27 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: SoFloFreeper

The only doctrine of Øbama I can discern is: no doctrine that helps the USA in any way, shape or form.

That’s the Øbama doctrine.


90 posted on 06/17/2014 9:38:30 PM PDT by AFreeBird
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RetiredArmy

People keep looking at it from the wrong angle: there is a doctrine, and it is proceeding exactly according to plan.


91 posted on 06/17/2014 9:39:31 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: SoFloFreeper

The only things that are collapsing are American economy, American might, American culture, American exceptionalism and American good will. Just as 0bama planned.


92 posted on 06/17/2014 9:45:29 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Can Juan Williams possibly be that stupid?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: skeeter

Yep. Too many “gentlemen legislators” on the good side. The bad side has nothing but smart ass punks.


93 posted on 06/17/2014 10:12:11 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Steve_Seattle

The “mission accomplished” sign had nothing to do with Bush.

It was an aircraft carrier coming back home from a long tour of duty and the sign was for the sailors coming home. It was to honor them that they had accomplished their mission.

The twisting of the story since is just plain evil.


94 posted on 06/17/2014 10:19:22 PM PDT by DB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: SoFloFreeper

Obama’s Cloward-Piven doctrine is doing just fine.


95 posted on 06/17/2014 10:20:49 PM PDT by Prince Caspian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ProtectOurFreedom

A foreign enemy combatant illegally installed in our White House to destroy America for the communist and Islamist buddies he’s surrounded himself with his entire life - who orchestrated his Harvard law degree and for whom he used that law degree to implement the Cloward-Piven Plan to destroy America from within.

Right now would be a good time to ask the LA Times why they wouldn’t allow anybody to see the video of Obama yukking it up with his Islamic terrorist buddies - BEFORE Americans decided whether to vote for the guy who is aiding our terrorist enemies and inviting them to waltz across our border and get all our hard-earned money to support them.

Obama is foreign. Can it be called treason when he may or may not even be a US citizen? But the LA Times folks, who withheld from voters critical information related to national security, was in a very real sense providing material aid and comfort to America’s enemies at that time. If the editors at LA Times are US citizens they have some explaining to do, as to why they should not be charged with treason.


96 posted on 06/18/2014 12:25:25 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: SoFloFreeper

Why have not the Human Shields of December 2002 that moved into
Iraq to protect it’s citizens from GW Bush returned to protect them from ISIS?


97 posted on 06/18/2014 12:27:23 AM PDT by clearcarbon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DoughtyOne

Cue Arpaio...


98 posted on 06/18/2014 12:27:28 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 83 | View Replies]

To: butterdezillion

That’s about it huh...


99 posted on 06/18/2014 12:41:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 98 | View Replies]

To: SoFloFreeper

But it’s all Bush’s fault that the Obama doctrine is discredited./s


100 posted on 06/18/2014 1:19:13 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 141-150 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson