Posted on 08/31/2014 4:01:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Thursday, President Obama told the world he didn’t yet have a strategy for dealing with the Islamic Front in Syria. Although it’s never good to let an army who beheads your citizens and is hell-bent on your destruction know you don’t know how to deal with them – yet, or otherwise – Josh Earnest, the president’s press secretary “clarified” his comments the next day. We do have a plan, it turns out. And the plan is awful.
Before we dive into the new statements, let’s take a look back at some older ones.
Back in January, when talking about terrorism, President Obama told the New Yorker magazine, “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. 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.”
The terrorist group making the biggest waves at the time was ISIS. Was the president referring to ISIS as part of a “jayvee team?” It went relatively unnoticed by the mainstream media then. But in the eight months since, ISIS has become the little jayvee team that could. It has taken over a landmass the size of Indiana – and growing. It has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and amassed a fortune to fund its continued terror campaign.
But our posture toward this outfit has not changed.
When ISIS beheaded American journalists James Foley and posted the video on the Internet, the media remembered the quote and asked about it. Earnest went on to claim the president wasn’t talking about ISIS, just other groups, and that the White House always has taken the ISIS threat seriously.
That claim, on its face, would be insignificant, perhaps even believable, were it not for the president’s statement Thursday. If, as the White House now insists, it always has taken the threat seriously, how can it have no strategy for dealing with ISIS in Syria, or anywhere, 8 months later?
Perhaps the political advisors in the White House have yet to calculate how to use this threat to influence the November elections or to at the very least blame Congress for it. But we already know the president has a phone – right next to his pen – and that the Pentagon has phones, too. If he has taken the threat of ISIS seriously for eight months, why has he not used his phone to call the Pentagon and ask the military to formulate some possible strategies for any number of scenarios?
It’s clear the White House has not been interested in the threat posed by ISIS, either abroad or here in the homeland, or else we wouldn’t still be without a plan.
Which brings us to the “clarification” on Friday.
Josh Earnest, appearing on Morning Joe, said, “We don't have plans in place right now for what we want to do and what we could do militarily in Syria. But when it comes to confronting ISIL, the president has made very clear we do have a comprehensive strategy for confronting that threat that is posed by ISIL. That begins with supporting Iraq’s political leaders as they form the kind of inclusive government that can unite the country to confront the threat that their country faces right now.”
First, there they go again using ISIL—Islamic State in the Levant—as opposed to ISIS, the Islamic State in Syria. This is to sow confusion and distract from the administration’s record in dealing with this crisis.
Second, so our strategy is dependent upon Iraqi Shia, Sunni and Kurds coming together, putting aside centuries of hatred, forming a drum circle and singing “Kumbaya”? Hmmm … why didn’t we think of that before? Wait, we did.
Earnest wasn’t done. “It includes beefing up our support to Iraqi and Kurdish security forces in the form of training and equipment to help them take the fight to ISIL on the ground in their country.” This makes sense, but it would have made more sense before ISIS was the fully armed, disciplined and funded outfit it is now.
Earnest then added that the president has dispatched Secretary of State John Kerry to the area to “engage” with the region’s leaders but wasn’t clear on the goal of that engagement beyond engagement for its own sake.
Plus, he threw in that we’re bombing them in Iraq at least, so there’s that.
See, we do have a strategy. It’s a muddled, rudderless, leaderless strategy with no clear directives or goals. But really, is that such a surprise?
-——arrived in a safe location one hour later.”-——
I don’t believe that. She’s a Democrat and would steal one bottle a day from the office until she had enough.
I think he’s simply leading from behind. He let events play out. If things turn out well due to someone’s else effort, then he’ll take full credit. If it goes badly, he blame someone else
I think he’s simply leading from behind. He let events play out. If things turn out well due to someone’s else effort, then he’ll take full credit. If it goes badly, he blame someone else
These Foreign U.S. Allies Just Did Something Major Behind Obama’s Back, And He Will NOT Be Happy
westernjournalism.com ^ | august 26, 2014 | norvell rose / FR Posted by lowbridge
“The Obama administration did not know ahead of time about the highly unusual military intervention….” That’s how the Washington Post describes a recent series of airstrikes in the Libyan capital of Tripoli by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The secret attacks, according to the New York Times, were aimed at Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli; and they represent “a major escalation of a regional power struggle set off by Arab Spring revolts.” In what could be a sign of increasingly strained international relations, the Times also reports:
The United States, the officials said, was caught by surprise: Egypt and the Emirates, both close allies and military partners, acted without informing Washington, leaving the Obama administration on the sidelines. Some observers note that both the UAE and Egypt appear to be doing more to combat the rise of Islamist extremism than the United States. (Excerpt) Read more at westernjournalism.com ...
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ANALYSIS Egypt? Giving Obama the finger? That's no surprise. They've done it before. In the post-Morsi era, Gen al Sisi (now Egyptian president) refused to take Obama's phone call---b/c Obama wanted al Sisi to leave the M/B alone.
Brilliant strategist, al Sisi, proceeded to smash the M/B and throw them out of Egyptian politics....he vowed to rebuild the 65 Christian churches the M/B had torched.
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POINTS TO PONDER:
<><> The Sharia government of Brunei – whose Sultan has been on the receiving end of Hollywood protesters for his ownership stake in the Beverly Hills Hotel – has made significant contributions to the Bill and Hillary's tax-exempt Clinton Foundation. ...
<><> Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah isn’t the only Muslim fundamentalist with connections to both Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
<><> As Shoebat.com reported last year, Muslim Brotherhood member Gehad al-Haddad was arrested in Egypt.....Gehad (means jihad in Farsi) al Haddad was Chief of Staff to the Deputy Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt...AT THE SAME TIME al-Haddad was an employee of the tax-exempt Clinton Foundation.
<><> In addition to al-Haddad, Hillary’s very close and longtime aide Huma Abedin is strongly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. Abedin’s mother is a leader with the Muslim Sisterhood and one of her co-leaders is the wife of imprisoned former President of Egypt, Mohammed Mursi, who is also a member of Muslim the Brotherhood.
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It should be remembered that while Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama and Hillary showered them with praise, and provided billions of dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes.
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Egypt unceremoniously threw Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood out of Egyptian politics.... and hasn’t forgotten the support offered to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt has now charged Obama and Hillary Clinton for conspiring and collaborating with the M/B and advancing their terrorist activities. Hillary's employee, al Haddad, is also sitting in an Egyptian jail (ready to talk?). (reported by H/T Western Journalism).
I hope this fact gets embedded permanently in the memory banks of our fellow Freepers. Support for the Muslim Brotherhood is indistinguishable from support for the Caliphate.
“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.”
What an amazingly idiotic statement for a president to have made. This clown is unbelievable.
How about a GOP strategy other than appeasement??
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Muslim money-laundering modalities finance global jihad.
freedomoutpost.com (EXCERPT)---the American Freedom Law Center, has been engaged in a long and drawn out lawsuit againstHamas front group, CAIR. Hamas-CAIR has been running a global criminal money laundering operation out of Washington, DC. "The money laundering scheme was discovered in the course of legal discovery in unrelated federal litigation arising out of allegations by five of CAIR's former clients that CAIR defrauded them by failing to provide the legal services they had been promised."
THE MODUS OPERANDI To avoid reporting these millions of dollars from the dubious Islamist sources and to avoid registering as an agent for a foreign sovereign as required by federal law, CAIR created a separate company called CAIR-Foundation, Inc---an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
CAIR itself quit filing any federal tax returns from 2008-2010 and allowed the IRS to withdraw its status as a 501(c)(4), converting itself to a regular for-profit corporation. CAIR also stopped all of its operations and became simply a holding company, transferring, at least on the books, all of its employee/s and equipment to CAIR Foundation. --snip--
SOURCE http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-front-group-cair-money-laundering-us-capital/#ixzz2jOgy8k7H
All the talking heads just can’t figure out why BO does nothing. It’s painfully obvious that he is on their side. When will someone wake up and call this treasonous a$% out. Either that or he is being blackmailed into no action which in my opinion is highly likely.
Everything Clown Prince nobama does is intentional. He is actually quite effective in his perverted, unConstitutional “transformation” of America. Many have difficulty that this traitor is doing what he does intentionally.
Obama is clueless about the reality in the Middle East. He and John Kerry believe that if we just appease these groups they will be nice to us. In their world view the US has always been the aggressor using its super power status to intimidate or bully other world powers. They believe that by weakening the US and following a policy of appeasement they will achieve world peace.
I remember those days.
Some guy on FOX this AM said that Saudi Arabia turned down a position on the UN security council because they didn’t want to work with the confused American administration.
“I never thought someone could make Jimmy Carter look good.”
But I never thought that at this age, Carter would still be trying to stay out front!
“How is it that Impeachment proceedings were conducted against Clinton for lying about Lewinsky and Obama is untouched thus far? “
Answer: He LOOKS BLACK!
So one could say that Øbozo does have a strategy - a nationalized plan for the distribution and implementation of toe-tags. Maybe we can get ones with little American flags embossed on them.
Clinton’s original impeachment proceedings were going to be for treason, for selling top secret missile technology to communist China in exchange for campaign cash for his 1996 re-election efforts. The liberal republicans in congress decided against this. I remember back in the day that then US Senator Don Nichols, OK, stated that the American People would not be able to withstand the spectacle of an American president being tried for treason. The last high profile case such as this one would have been Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who went to the electric chair in 1953 for giving atomic secrets to the Soviets. Can you imagine, in a 24-hour news cycle world, the endless and ceaseless speculation on the fate of Slick Willy? In retrospect, Senator Nichols was wrong, for if the American People had become aware of just who the democrats really were, and to what levels they would sink, even the least informed citizens (meaning those who vote for democrats) would have been aware of the dangers of voting for them. Only now, when civilization itself hangs over the abyss by a thread, are they becoming vaguely aware that something is amiss. A perfect opportunity to clarify for the country, and indeed the entire world, was lost. One opportunity among so many.
remember back in the day that then US Senator Don Nichols, OK, stated that the American People would not be able to withstand the spectacle of an American president being tried for treason.
Our nation cannot withstand American Presidents committing treason.
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