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Exclusive: Obama Refuses to Hit ISIS’s Libyan Capital
Daily Beast ^ | 02.18.16 | Nancy Youseff

Posted on 02/18/2016 5:33:04 AM PST by detective

Despite the growing threat from the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Libya, the Obama administration has turned down a U.S. military plan for an assault on ISIS's regional hub there, three defense officials told The Daily Beast.

In recent weeks, the U.S. military-led by its Africa and Special Operations Commands-have pushed for more airstrikes and the deployment of elite troops, particularly in the city of Sirte. The hometown of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the city is now under ISIS control and serving as a regional epicenter for the terror group.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: europe; hillary; isis; muslims; nato; obama
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This is one more example of incompetence, failure and probably treason from the Obama Administration.
1 posted on 02/18/2016 5:33:04 AM PST by detective
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2 posted on 02/18/2016 5:36:18 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Uh, why would he bomb his friends?


3 posted on 02/18/2016 5:40:32 AM PST by Obadiah
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I guess no one here read the memo. Attacking our enemies makes them angry at us, and makes them want to kill us even deader than they normally would...


4 posted on 02/18/2016 5:42:09 AM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp (noob)
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Meanwhile, the ragheads are complaining that the Russians cluster bombing of Raqqa is killing innocents and all that ...


5 posted on 02/18/2016 5:43:38 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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hussein won’t attack his fellow muslims.


6 posted on 02/18/2016 5:46:00 AM PST by shelterguy
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the black pacifist will never make war


7 posted on 02/18/2016 5:47:23 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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He wouldn’t bomb them while two former seals were lasing their mortar positions, so why would he start now?


8 posted on 02/18/2016 5:47:27 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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the black pacifist will never make war

Except on white, Conservative, (especially Christian) Americans.

9 posted on 02/18/2016 5:48:40 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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My bad. seals=SEALs


10 posted on 02/18/2016 5:49:29 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Valerie Jarrett told him not to.


11 posted on 02/18/2016 5:51:25 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Obadiah

Our Imam in Chief has also left the main ISIS headquarters building in Raqqa, along with the Islamic courthouse down the street untouched.


12 posted on 02/18/2016 5:52:03 AM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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I have and idea.
Why don’t the hundreds of thousands of young men who fled Libya for Europe go back there and fight for their own damn country ... instead of mooch off of Westerners and expect them to fight all their dirty little religious civil wars for them?

Or is it not worth fighting for?

If it is the latter, then why the hell do we need to be involved at all?


13 posted on 02/18/2016 5:53:38 AM PST by Lorianne
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Good thing we liberated Libya.


14 posted on 02/18/2016 5:55:13 AM PST by zek157
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"the Obama administration has turned down a U.S. military plan for an assault on ISIS's regional hub there"

It's all part of Traitorobama's "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" policy, to which Traitorcongress has given its bend-over-and-spread-their-cheeks support.

15 posted on 02/18/2016 5:59:51 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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So, why aren’t the Russians turning it to dust?


16 posted on 02/18/2016 6:06:59 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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My bad, wrong country.


17 posted on 02/18/2016 6:07:30 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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In the war between western civilization and Islamic terror, Obama is not on our side. Of course he won’t attack ISIS or Al Qaeda. Did anyone sensible expect something different?


18 posted on 02/18/2016 6:11:39 AM PST by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Scalia)
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He and Clinton assassinated Khaddaffi, on the hope the Muslim Brotherhood would take over. What they wound up doing is turning Libya into a jihadi wasteland.


19 posted on 02/18/2016 6:17:11 AM PST by PGR88
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It would seem odd for Zer0 to attack the White House.


20 posted on 02/18/2016 6:21:42 AM PST by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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