Posted on 02/19/2015 5:42:20 AM PST by SJackson
After months of taking flak for his lack of a coherent strategy to combat ISIS, President Obama came up with an answer. Unfortunately, it’s “let’s pretend.”
In a speech to a conference Wednesday as well as an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, our president did set forth an agenda for countering what he insisted on calling “violent extremism.” But his approach puts the top priority on the West acknowledging the terrorists’ conomic and political grievances.
That won’t convince anyone that Obama understands the nature of the threat. Nor will it do much to convince groups like ISIS that he’s serious about defeating them.
By continuing to dance around the reality that Islamism is a dangerous mainstream force within the Arab and Muslim worlds and downplaying the necessity to fight ISIS on the ground, the president once again demonstrated his discomfort in leading a struggle against evil and his unfitness as a war leader.
Obama is right that most Muslims don’t support the terrorists. Muslim communities should be partners with the government in the fight against those who seek to foment terror. The president is also right to echo George W. Bush’s insistence that America is not at war with an entire religion and its billion adherents.
But in a month that will be remembered for the release of murder videos in which ISIS beheaded and burned to death its victims — even as it expanded its reach from Iraq and Syria to Libya, and its sympathizers gunned down journalists and Jews in the streets of Europe — the leader of the free world needed to give us far more than an agenda for better community relations at home
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mohamhead’s first act as “prophet” was to slaughter to the Jewish community at Medina. How is this inconsistent with the acts of isis?
Leadership to die for
What have we become as a people?
when an idiot like this is even allowed in the WH on a tour
much less the current OCCUPYant?
That is not a trick question, btw ;-)
Thank you George Bush. He set the stage for this fool’s election.
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