Posted on 08/20/2014 3:13:54 AM PDT by jimbo123
In a wide-ranging interview with the New Yorker, President Barack Obama compared Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq and Syria to junior varsity basketball players, downplaying their threat as small-league. He also shared what he thought were the chances of reaching Middle East peace agreements.
New Yorker editor David Remnick pointed out to the president that the Al Qaeda flag is now seen flying in Falluja in Iraq and in certain locations in Syria, and thus the terrorist group has not been “decimated” as Obama had said during his 2012 reelection campaign.
“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told Remnick. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”
Remnick characterized Obama’s analogy as “uncharacteristically flip.”
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I am convinced that Valerie Jarrett is the stupidest person to ever occupy the office of president of the United States.
Jarrett wanted the caliphate and now she has it.
No, the real president(s) aren’t stupid. They are just able to lie to an adoring media which in turn feeds the twaddle to a totally dense and disinterested fan base.
Is Baghdad Bob obama’s new speech writer?
Right now they look like the Harlem globe trotters and he looks like a Washington senator.
There are a whole lot of bush league JV teams on the world stage eating Obama and the United States foreign policy lunch because President Obama is a no show and the so their little bush league JV team wins by default.
Tell that to the Mother of the journalist who was just beheaded by ISIS.
Did Obama say anything about that?!
ISIS has paralyzed Obama, with their threat of beheading the second American journalist. If he says anything, they will follow through with their threat. So he will say nothing.
ISIS is holding the entire US hostage and Obama is letting them...
Any US president — except Obama, of course — would have said that he won’t let terrorists hold our country hostage and that he will go to the end of the earth and won’t stop until every one of those terrorists, who want to harm the US are DEAD.
It’s going to be nearly impossible to dismantle the caliphate Jarrett and Obama were tasked to create and is now in place.
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