Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas"

realclearpolitics ^ | 7/6/15 | i schwarz

[bestintxas]

After consulting with military leaders at the Pentagon this afternoon President Obama held a press conference on the growing threat of ISIS. President Obama declared the United States "will never be at war with Islam." Obama also said, "ideologies are not defeated with guns but better ideas."

"We'll constantly reaffirm through words and deeds that we will never be at war with Islam," President Obama said Monday afternoon. "We are fighting terrorists who distort islam and its victims are mostly Muslims."

"This challenge of countering violent extremism is not simply a military effort," the president said. "Ideologies are not defeated with guns but better ideas and more attracting and more compelling vision."

PRESIDENT OBAMA: This broader challenge of countering violent extremism is not simply a military effort. Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas and more attractive and more compelling vision. So the United States will continue to do our part by continuing to counter ISIL's hateful propaganda, especially online. We'll constantly reaffirm through words and deeds that we will never be at war with Islam. We are fighting terrorists who distort islam and its victims are mostly Muslims.

We're also going to partner with Muslim communities as they seek the prosperity and dignity they observe. And we're going to expect those communities to step up in terms of pushing back as hard as they can in conjunction with other people of good will against these hateful ideologies, particularly when it comes to what we're teaching young people.

[4rcane]

Now we know where she heard that idea from. Her boss

[PA-RIVER]

If ISIS needs some better ideas, we should send them to the White house.

[x]

Said earlier and better:

"The ultimate determinate in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas – a trial of spiritual resolve; the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideas to which we are dedicated." — Ronald Reagan

[TigersEye]

The Kurds would still like to give guns a shot, 0bamaomao.

Seeing as how you haven’t given them any better ideas.

[conservativegranny]

“President Obama declared the United States “will never be at war with Islam.”

Is he speaking for all future presidents or does he plan on being the prez for life? Sounds like it.

And how is that “better ideas” thing working out for him? What in history has taught him this? What war specifically is he referring to that wasn’t won militarily but with “better ideas”.

[5th MEB]

Hey Resident OBUNGHOLE; NAZISM was an ideology, it was thoroughly beaten by bombs, bullets and guts.

[Art in Idaho]

490 more days of Obama!

For the love of God, are we going to make it?

Pray for America and prepare. .

[The Toll]

He will bend over backwards to defend or protect anyone that’s not white.

[Pollster1]

I am certain than Obama is shockingly stupid. I am equally certain that he is shockingly evil. I am totally bewildered on the relative mix of stupid and evil in his drug-addled mind, and inane statements like this only add to my confusion.

[5th MEB]

Those men you see around him on the podium; regardless of the fruit salad you see on their uniforms, are not American Fighting Men.
They are nothing more than political hacks, just like the sociopaths and psychopaths that surrounded Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
They got to their present positions by sucking up to their new fuhrer, by being politically correct and ignoring their Oath to the Constitution of the United States.

[Recompennation]

Obama is truly an idiot.
Diversity!

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

So, do you think Obama’s secret service detail has put away their guns and are now using better ideas to protect him?

[5th MEB]

Just bomb them into extinction my Friend; they are already in the stone age.

[5th MEB]

Like Obunghole would care, they are just females after all.

[4rcane]

What are these better ideas? Gay marriage? Woman are equal to men? Don’t persecute Christians? $15/hr salary?

[publius911]

Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas."

Well, Obama, unfortunately we're not fighting an "ideology." In ISIS, we're fighting Mass Murdering Muslims!

Sadly all the hundreds of cultures in history who defeated their animalistic enemies with "better ideas" can't help us.
To the last man woman and child, they disappeared from the face of the earth. Permanently, never to be heard from.

[MeshugeMikey]

BINGO! and kablam!!

[MeshugeMikey]

to quote our host

“FUBO”

[Mad Dawgg]

"Obama on ISIS Threat: "Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns, They Are Defeated By Better Ideas""

Well sorta right. We had a better idea in WWII. We destroyed Germany and Japan by bombing the hell out of them so they couldn't make guns and then we won because our side had guns and planes and tanks and their side couldn't build anymore to replace what we destroyed.

[windcliff]

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