Obama: Let's Face It, These Republicans Are Practically ISIS Recruiters (Psychological Projection)

Townhall.com ^ | November 18, 2015 | Guy Benson

[Kaslin]

During his APEC address tonight, President Obama had some tough words for Republicans refusing to take in Syrian refugees. Yesterday he said that not taking in refugees would violate America’s values, but today he got much, much tougher in going after them. He said the “fear and panic” only serves to make the situation worse if everyone’s basing their judgments on “hysteria or an exaggeration of risks.” ..."I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that’s coming out of here during the course of this debate,” [he said].

He wasn't finished:

Obama just went off on GOP governors pic.twitter.com/0r5luHT9Aa— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) November 18, 2015

Here we have the President of the United States demagoguing his domestic opponents, while abroad, in the wake of a devastating terrorist attack against the West.  As virtually everyone has noticed by now, Obama reserves his most impassioned denunciations for his political foes; the massacre in Paris was a "setback," but damn these Republicans and their rhetoric.  First of all, it's preposterous to suggest that a roiling debate at home over refugee vetting is ISIS' most potent recruiting tool -- but considering the source, it's not a surprising assessment.  Barack Obama has been comprehensively wrong about ISIS at virtually every turn.  He failed to anticipate their precipitous rise as a direct consequence of his reckless withdrawal from Iraq.  He failed to recognize the threat they posed when he drew and abandoned his "red line" against Assad.  As they gained force, recruits and territory, he sniffed that ISIS' potency was equivalent to that of a "javyee team," then tried to pretend he'd never said that.  And hours before they pulled off a series of sophisticated, deadly assaults in a Western capital, he described their reach as "contained."  His administration is now assuring us that the organization lacks the capacity to perpetrate an attack on US soil -- so sleep well, America.  It's the allure of toxic Islamist theology, coupled with success, that has proven to be the terrorist army's strongest recruitment asset.

Second, Obama's framing of Republicans as terrorist recruiters is just the latest iteration of the facile narrative that any proposed course of action or commentary that deviates from the Left's prevailing pieties would result in giving the terrorists "exactly what they want," or something.  The list of no-no's includes, but is not limited to: Raising concerns about admitting under-vetted refugees into the United States, tying the Islamic State's actions to Islam, detaining terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, and both bombing the terrorists and fighting them on the ground.  Interestingly, one arrow in America's national defense quiver that is regularly exploited by terrorist groups to attract new members is our drone program, which President Obama has dramatically expanded.  Should we stop raining hellfire on hardened jihadis in order to deprive them of a "recruitment tool"?  Sure, we're liquidating terrorists, but isn't that exactly what they want?  What utter, juvenile nonsense: "Shut up, you're helping the terrorists."  End of discussion.

Finally, to the shock of nobody, Obama is torching a straw man here.  Yes, he's exploiting Chris Christie's remarkably poor framing of the issue, but the idea that Republicans are "scared" of orphaned toddlers is ridiculous on its face.  (They also aren't cowering over debate moderators, just unwilling to sit idly by amid ideological hack jobs). In light of the events in Paris, and the apparent role that refugees -- or jihadis posing as refugees -- played in the plot, our government has a solemn responsibility to ensure that individuals being welcomed into the country do not pose a threat to the safety of US citizens.  Between this worrisome story from 2013 and the FBI director's admission that current vetting protocols are far from airtight, these concerns aren't the stuff of crackpot paranoia.  A new House bill that would halt the influx of refugees while tightening up the review process (screening for threat level, not religion) seems sensible.  Here's Speaker Ryan striking an adult, unifying tone, in contrast to the president:


Incidentally, Obama isn't just fending off criticism from Republicans.  Several prominent Democrats have broken with him on refugees, on the tenor and content of his post-Paris comments, and on his failed anti-ISIS strategy.  Thin-skinned people do not handle criticism well, which likely explains Obama's unseemly tirades and misplaced anger this week.  The White House briefed US governors yesterday, 31 of whom have announced opposition to settling Syrian refugees in their states under current conditions.  Administration officials reportedly stiff-armed governors' requests for more information and transparency, angering the Democratic governor of New Hampshire, and stirring frustration from California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who's inclined to support the administration's overall policy. The Obama White House is terrible at persuasion, so motive-impugning insults rule the day.  I'll leave you with a withering critique of both Obama and Hillary Clinton from Carly Fiorina.  Her opening answer is strong, but stay tuned for her points about what we now know about the ISIS-related threat matrix, and our national security apparatus' capacity to handle it:

Carly Fiorina blasts President Obama's handling of ISIS
By the way, ISIS has explicitly stated that they intend to infiltrate the West amid the mass refugee migration, a "huge concern" acknowledged by the US Director of National Intelligence, and they're actively following through on that approach.

[Kaslin]

[butlerweave]

The Idiot is acting Stupidly

[Jack Hammer]

What are a few more lies to The Great Prevaricator?

He draws his paycheck whatever happens, then retires fo Hawaii.

Screw you, America.

[skeeter]

He's just setting up the GOP to take the blame when his policies result in deaths on American soil.

This guy is so far beneath contempt its shocking.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Grow up, 0dungo. What just happened in France is YOUR fault for completely withdrawing from Iraq. Deal with it and stop blaming OTHERS.

[ColdOne]

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[Kevin in California]

I swear this guy is a Muslim mole that has infiltrated us.

[cripplecreek]

Same old islamderthal tactic they’ve been using for 1600 years.

Submit to us or we’ll be forced to become violent.

[Kevin in California]

Yep, the only thing this POS has created during his tenure as POTUS is ISIS.

that’s it.....

[Responsibility2nd]

Of the many mosques that Trump wants to shut down here in the US; the first one to go must be the White Mosque.

With Obama as imam.

[LeoWindhorse]

” Let’s face it “ Barack Obama is a complete asshole and not in any way qualified to remain as the supposed POTUS .

Will some group of heroic AMERICANS please arrest this buffoon and get him out of that office ASAP ?

PLEASE!

[Sgt_Schultze]

President Oswald Bates is much brighter between his own ears than he is in reality.

[Vaquero]

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

He is just fanatically obsessed with getting them in here isn’t he. I wonder if he would feel the same if they were Jewish or Christian refugees.

[Frank_2001]

I think you are right. All it took were EIGHT “refugees” to cause carnage in Paris, and the Obamatollah has already landed TEN THOUSAND “refugees” in New Orleans, with more to come, or so he thinks!

[NorthMountain]

When someone begins an argument with “Let’s face it”, I assume that he is lying.

[Logical me]

King Obama is insane. He is really a sick piece of garbage and how America could ever support him is beyond me. The MSM and much of Hollywood trash has kept a huge portion of America in the dark. Until we trash the MSM and get the truth out we may never restore America.

[CommieCutter]

No offense when I say this but: DUH!!

[huldah1776]

Practically? Who is the ISIS creator, eh, community organizer?

Post this link on every thread related to refuses.

“This Is The Most Disturbing Muslim ‘Refugee’ Video You Will Ever See”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZwIDlIL5Q

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

The guy is going cost a lot of people their lives, I’ve been saying for the past few years Congress should focus on NOTHING ELSE but impeaching the sonovabitch ASAP before he can do anymore damage but they’re all gutless wussbags. This really is a national crisis with this guy, not only in the USA but the rest of the world. He is BEYOND an absolute disaster. And why is nobody bring up the Boston marathon bombing? Those guys came into this country claiming refugee status and look what happened. Even their freakin’ mother is a psycho terrorist.