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Trump Defeats ISIS In Months — After Years Of Excuses From Obama
Investors Business Daily ^
| October 17, 2017
| Editorial
Posted on 10/17/2017 9:45:11 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Terrorism: Nine months after President Trump promised to defeat ISIS "quickly and effectively," U.S.-backed forces captured Raqqa, which until Tuesday had served as the ISIS capital. The battle now is over who deserves credit: Trump or President Obama.
Trump, not surprisingly, claims it for himself: "It had to do with the people I put in and it had to do with rules of engagement," Trump said in a radio interview.
Before dismissing this as typical Trump self-aggrandizement, consider that for several years Obama insisted that a quick and decisive victory against ISIS was all but impossible.
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A surprisingly objective editorial relating President Trump's effectiveness at leadership and delegation to superior individuals.
Even the headline!
To: Navy Patriot
It was obvious after a bit that that Cankles and Obunga facilitated the rise of ISIS. First abandoning Iraq, and then arms transfers via Libya and elsewhere.
Of course the Kenyan fraud did all he could to protect his kind by kabuki theater "war" against them that did nothing.
Several pilots stated how fake their bombing missions were.
To: Navy Patriot
ISIS has not been defeated.
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posted on
10/17/2017 9:52:25 PM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: Navy Patriot
Winning a war requires the will to win. Obama did not have it. Trump does.
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posted on
10/17/2017 9:52:44 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: CatOwner
>
ISIS has not been defeated. Oh, those pesky details...
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posted on
10/17/2017 9:53:21 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: CatOwner
ISIS has not been defeated.That is true.
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posted on
10/17/2017 9:55:11 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(America returns to the Rule of Law)
To: CatOwner
True, for the overall organization. However, Obama said repeatedly that defeating the forces of ISIS in Iraq would be a long haul, requiring careful solutions, etc., etc. Well, those forces seem to have been vanquished - at least for now.
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posted on
10/17/2017 9:55:58 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: CatOwner
Didn’t many of ISIS move onto ungoverned Philippine islands?
There must be quite a lot of those islands.
To: Navy Patriot
The only things Obama excelled at were wasting money, screwing with Americans and flooding the country with criminals.
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posted on
10/17/2017 10:01:26 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: Navy Patriot
ISIS is just a JV team . . . Obambozo told us that . . .
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posted on
10/17/2017 10:02:16 PM PDT
by
laweeks
To: lee martell
I think Duertere, or however you spell his name, announced a day or two ago that they’ve cleaned them all out, or most of them. Also with US weapons/supplies.
To: CatOwner
ISIS has not been defeated. Yes, I understand the dead terrorists are now fighting off the wild dogs, feeding on their remains, sticking up out of the shallow mass graves.
(send in the wild boar)
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posted on
10/17/2017 10:06:29 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(RATs, RINOs...same thing)
To: ROCKLOBSTER; CatOwner
Cat owner is right
Daesh still holds a fat chunk of Syria and whatever the former Iraq is now called
Sad but true
I’d say militarily they are about 60% destroyed which would end most armies
But these guys ain’t normal
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posted on
10/17/2017 10:13:35 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
To: Navy Patriot
President Trump stated the mission and let the military do what they do best. He did not run the war, pick the targets, require suicidal ROEs or go PC on them. Good job President Trump.
To: Navy Patriot
Trump Defeats ISIS In Months After Years Of Excuses From Obama Hussein
To: Navy Patriot
That is because POTUS44 is Obama-mess.
(that prez was quite a mess).
What a joke his Presidential Library is.
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posted on
10/17/2017 11:54:03 PM PDT
by
topher
(America, please Do The Right Thing!)
To: CatOwner
ISIS has not been defeated — just like there is such a thing as Obamacare, still.
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posted on
10/18/2017 1:43:52 AM PDT
by
libh8er
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
10/18/2017 4:27:01 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: CatOwner
No, but we took their capital which is a huge first step.
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posted on
10/18/2017 5:12:03 AM PDT
by
bray
(Pray for President Trump)
To: Dapper 26
President Trump stated the mission and let the military do what they do best. He did not run the war, pick the targets, require suicidal ROEs or go PC on them. Good job President TrumpExactly.
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posted on
10/18/2017 7:11:43 AM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(America returns to the Rule of Law)
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