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Obama: We Will Shrink ISIS Into a "Manageable Problem"
Townhall.com ^ | September 3, 2014 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 09/03/2014 6:52:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

Speaking during a press conference from Eastern Europe early Wednesday morning, President Obama said justice will be served for the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff yesterday and that ISIS must be "destroyed." However, shortly after those remarks, Obama said he is working with coalition forces to turn ISIS into a "manageable problem."

"We know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem," Obama said. "Our objective is clear, and that is to degrade and destroy ISIL so it is no longer a threat not just to Iraq but also the region and to the United States."

Obama: ISIS a 'Manageable Problem,' If 'International Community' Comes Together

Obama's objective or strategy couldn't be more opaque (or non-existent as the White House admitted last week). Is the goal to "destroy" ISIS? Or to "manage" the terror army? If only the international community approves of course. One thing is clear, President Obama has no interest in the United States taking the lead on ISIS or destroying them on our own.

H/T Weekly Standard


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; bhogwot; idiot; isil; isis; terrorism; worthlesspos
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1 posted on 09/03/2014 6:52:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

V I C T O R Y !


2 posted on 09/03/2014 6:53:46 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Kaslin

He’s going to turn it into a manageable problem?

He’s admitting he can’t manage it now.


3 posted on 09/03/2014 6:54:00 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Kaslin

Obama doesn’t want to harm his Muslim allies in ISIS too much.


4 posted on 09/03/2014 6:55:40 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Kaslin

“Managed” to what end sirrah?


5 posted on 09/03/2014 6:57:26 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
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To: Kaslin

ERADICATE THE PROBLEM!!!


6 posted on 09/03/2014 6:57:30 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: Kaslin

Wasn’t it Chamberlain that wanted to manage Hitler?


7 posted on 09/03/2014 6:57:33 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Obama: First ever POTUS to be retired while still in office.)
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To: Kaslin

” - - - “We know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink - - - “

Spoken by a Community Organizer who loves to lose, lose, lose on the World Stage.


8 posted on 09/03/2014 6:57:39 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Kaslin

FUBO.
We will shrink that tumor growing out of your eye until it is only the size of a grapefruit.


9 posted on 09/03/2014 6:58:08 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Kaslin
While even the MSM refers to this group as ISIS Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, obama and his State Department refer to it as ISIL Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.

Levant is an area of the Middle East that explicitly includes Israel!

This amounts to nothing less than diplomatic recognition of and approval of muslim rule of the Jewish State.

And open support of the slaughter and bondage that would inevitably follow.

10 posted on 09/03/2014 6:58:11 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: ladyjane
Resident Obama's words are contradictory. He said he will destroy ISIS and then he said he would make ISIS into a manageable problem.

Resident Obama contradicts himself every day.

11 posted on 09/03/2014 6:58:18 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama is actually a narco-terrorist. Consider that charge carefully.)
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To: P-Marlowe

amazing..this Prez is now using laundry metaphors for our attack plan..

yep, we’ll shrink and manage this dirty stain.. we can’t totally get rid of this dirty stain... but we’ll manage it and make it less viewable...

ring around the collar..

disgusting.. and half the country voted for this guy.

what a country this has become...


12 posted on 09/03/2014 6:58:37 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: Kaslin

Obama has succeeded, the US is just another face in the crowd and tyrants around the world are taking advantage of that fact. Meanwhile, the Presidency is nothing more than a vehicle for easy, lavish living for Obama. He has no interest in anything beyond golf, other personal pleasures, expensive trips, vacations and living like an Emperor. In those areas, he is a success.


13 posted on 09/03/2014 6:58:40 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: ladyjane

The aim of government is to manage problems, not solve them. If they solved them they would eliminate their own raison d’etre. If a problem is inadvertently solved, government will cast about to find, or if necessary create a new problem to justify their continued existence. It is far better for government to manage and cultivate a problem with just enough marginal efficacy to prolong its, and by extension, it’s own existence.


14 posted on 09/03/2014 6:59:20 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Kaslin

I wish we could SHRINK this POS into a “manageable problem”!


15 posted on 09/03/2014 6:59:34 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Kaslin
"We know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem,"

In other words -- ISIS will not become a "manageable problem" so long as the Obama regime occupies the White House.

And if President Obama had half the cojones of Sarah Palin, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

16 posted on 09/03/2014 6:59:36 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Kaslin

The photographers seem to be taking pictures of Resident Obama’s left side only ...are they hiding his skull scar on the right side? Is this deliberate?


17 posted on 09/03/2014 7:00:53 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama is actually a narco-terrorist. Consider that charge carefully.)
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To: Kaslin
...if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL's sphere of influence...

CONTINUE to shrink???

This pestilence is growing faster than Ebola and is attracting fighters from every country in the world. He's been smoking Hopium again.

18 posted on 09/03/2014 7:01:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Kaslin

I heard this and switched channels to see if others were reporting what he said.

Not a peep from CNN, MSNBC and those other small networks no one watches.
I saw the headlines though saying :”Obama will seek justice “ bla bla bla

No wonder most of this country is dumb and yet pretends to know everything . They actually think their channels tell them the truth


19 posted on 09/03/2014 7:02:11 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Kaslin
Bosnia arrests at least 15 radical islamists today, who were recruiting on behalf of ISIS and other terrorist groups.

Google translated .

Cheb Bilal brought to Banja Luka

20 posted on 09/03/2014 7:02:32 AM PDT by csvset
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