[blam]

Turkey's Largest City Is Rattled By Growing Signs Of ISIS Support

[Nextrush]

I read the same words in the UK from blokes posting emails as well as journalist Peter Hitchens, who calls the actions of David Cameron all bluff and bluster.

The phony nature of the situation is proved by what has happened and is happening at Khobani on the Turkish border with Syria.

For weeks the IS guys attacked and pushed the Kurds back into the town, then the airstrikes begin. Meanwhile the Turkish tanks standby overlooking the town while the Kurds are crushed.

Peter Hitchens put it this way in a recent column....

“Almost everything you thought you knew about the war with IS has been proved untrue by the absurd stand-off at Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish border.

Turkey isn’t our ally, even though it’s in Nato. On the contrary, it’s an increasingly Islamist state run by a dangerous demagogue who should worry us as much as IS does.

That’s why the Turkish tanks stand and watch as IS overwhelms the brave defenders of Kobane.”

[riverrunner]

Could it be because we really haven’t started to fight them.

[I want the USA back]

Exactly what 0wanted.

[NRA1995]

Donna Brazile has her head so far up that wide caboose of hers it’s pathetic. So is the wide caboose.

[SMARTY]

The “O” ‘sterile’, ‘war from a distance’ is not going to work with THIS enemy.

Maybe he thinks if he keeps US military opposition nominal, grudging and at a ‘remove’, failure will not touch him …. and he can STILL say he tried.

The whole thing is typical of an irresolute and out–of-his-depth Liberal community organizer who finds himself in a REAL job with REAL accountability.

Liberals always want it BOTH WAYS! This works best for them because they are paralyzed with fear at having to take command of a situation, make a decision, then ACT responsibly and decisively.

I used to be like that… then I grew up!

[longfellow]

Kind of hard to win when the administration is made up of Muslims.

[Fightin Whitey]

Robinson: You Know, We're Losing the Fight Against ISIS

There are Robinsons, and there are Robinsons.

Some (hey Yoo-Jeen!) are a little slower than others.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"That is precisely why Leon Panetta and Robert Gates kept advising Obama to find a way to keep American troops in Iraq. Had we kept that force in place, we could have put more pressure on Nouri al-Maliki to integrate the Sunnis into the public life of Iraq. Instead, we walked away and allowed Maliki to purge the Sunnis, creating exactly the conditions that Robinson now laments."

Let's play the what if game. What if it had been George W Bush who had pulled out all of the troops from Iraq in 2011? Would we not be hearing about this over and over again ad nuesuem in the press? Thus insulating Obama and putting all the blame on Bush? But since it was Obama who screwed up in epic proportions, the press gives him a pass.

Let's not forget that this was Obama's strategy all along. Come hell or highwater, we're getting out of Iraq. Remember the debate against McCain in 2008? When McCain supposedly made a gaffe by saying what does it matter if we leave troops in Iraq for 50 years? No one remembers that he then went onto say as long as they are not getting killed. And he also drew the correct parallel to how we have had troops stationed in South Korea since the end of the Korean war. Yes, McCain makes intelligent and cogent arguments from time to time....

[Lorianne]

Had we kept that force in place, we could have put more pressure on Nouri al-Maliki to integrate the Sunnis into the public life of Iraq.

This is BS. We could stay there 500 years and we would never be able to "put pressure" on Shia and Sunnis to work together.

This is just more pie-in-the-sky gobbledygook speak.

Whenever we left Iraq it was going to fall apart. Whether that was under Obama or anyone else. Same thing happened in Egypt. Same thing happened in Libya when their dictators fell.

These people cannot get along. Period. They've been fighting each other and chopping off heads for over 600 years.

It is not our fault they are like this.

[RatRipper]

I’m not sure whether the president and his aides are guilty of optimism or self-delusion.

neither . . . the word is "TREASON"

[Jim Noble]

It’s not too soon to state the obvious

1) Bombs do not win wars.
2) ISIS is very capable, militarily.
3) It is possible for us to lose the war, of which Mesopotamia is a battle. Especially if we don't fight.

[Codeflier]

Just cut off all access to drinking water. Should only take a few weeks for things to shake out. Use the military to capture remote areas near rivers. Dam them up and sit back to pick off the desparate attempts to search for water. Should be SOP in the Middle East.