Posted on 07/06/2015 2:04:17 PM PDT by 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.
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Of course, it was ideas that defeated King George, German, Japan, etc.
My better idea? Shoot them all.
Yep, I remember when we totally outdebated Hitler and he just ran down to his bunker and offed himself.
First you bring them to their knees with weapons, then you deliver the better ideas to them when they are not permitted to act on the bad ideas anymore. (See Nazi Germany for details)
This is the dumbest man to ever hold the office of president. And, ISIS sits back, laughing their arses off while they continue to take over country after country, killing, raping and torturing people. Yeah - better ideas - that’s what we need. How stupid can one person be?
Bad ideas are best dealt with using machine guns and cannon, if carpet bombing, nukes, and poison gas are not available.
Not even ideas, just more rhetoric and BS from our radical president.
Islam is a good idea?
Hitler and Mussolino must be pissed.,
Then why not simply disband the armed forces and pull out your pen, to write your tomes?
You beat me to it. If only all those Germans had a government jobs program. Oh wait, Nazism was a government jobs program.
Reminder to Barack Obama: Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
ISIS could've been disintegrated a year ago when they were still marching across the desert in a column. When the opposition's idea is to kill everyone in their way, the only idea that's going to stop them is killing them first.
And I'm basically a pacifist. Until lately.
“Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m going to be watching you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uqjznmTp80
“If elected, we will work with President Obama”
- Mitch and Jonbon
Thank you lesser evil Freepers.
Truly the Neville Chamberlain of our time.
Here’s a better idea...
Shoot all people with violent ideologies who wield guns, machetes, or any other kind of weapon.
Dang you beat me to it.
Lopping off the heads of dissenting ideologists is a pretty effective way of squelching better ideas. ISIS knows this.
While attempting to propagate better ideas, one may need guns to impede said loppings.
If we are NOT at war with Islam but THEY are at war with us, then.. WE LOSE.
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