Bush, in an MSNBC interview, twice acknowledged that he agreed with the president’s approach in specific areas. Unless this gap is filled, Obama’s plan won’t work. “They don’t like us that much”, says Paul, who believes a USA ground force could fester an underground movement resembling the insurgency which occurred after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Nothing. As the president said, “The strategy that we are using now – airstrikes, special forces, and working with local forces who are fighting to regain control of their own country – that is how we’ll achieve a more sustainable victory”.
Like Obama, most of the GOP’s White House hopefuls oppose the use of many USA ground troops, preferring instead to send a limited number of special forces to train and support anti-Islamic State forces in the region.
Democrats are increasingly fearful that President Obama’s handling of the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is becoming a liability for their party.
What Obama also has right is that old saying: “If you’re in a poker game and you don’t know who the sucker is, it’s probably you”.
According to the New York Times, since the attack on the Twin Towers, there have been 26 deadly terrorist attacks in the United States and all were done by homegrown terrorists, or terrorists that were born and raised in the U.S. Of those 26 attacks, seven were related to Islamic extremists while the other 19 were led by right-wing extremists. Welch asked. “We’re left with nation building”. The first is ISIS as an internal terror threat and the second is ISIS in the mid-eastern battle zone(s).
“We’re not about race hatred we put that stuff down and picked up the Koran”, said Abdul Hakim Shareef.
U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Fairhope, co-sponsored a bill Tuesday that would give the military broad authority to conduct operations against ISIS if directed by President Barack Obama.
Then there was the news this week that the US air force is running out of bombs and ammunition in the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The city of Deir el-Zour, where the purported strikes happened Sunday, is mainly held by the Islamic State group, but the Syrian government maintains a presence in some parts of it. A U.S.-led coalition has been striking at IS targets in Syria for the past year. We have effectively been made too afraid to help people displaced by war.
This was not a speech about how the Obama administration is going to do anything differently in the future.
“ISIS has threatened not only Iran and the [Shia]-dominated regimes in Iraq and Syria but even the Sunni-dominated Arab states”.
“Between 2011 and 2013, the US signed billions of dollars’ worth of contracts for 140 M1A1 Abrams tanks, F16 fighter aircraft, 681 Stinger shoulder held units, Hawk anti-aircraft batteries, and other equipment”.
“You see all these massacres we are having in the United States that are not by Muslims?”
He last spoke from the Oval office in August 2010 to discuss the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq and a few months earlier on June 15 to talk about the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Carter raised the prospect Wednesday that US military advisers could accompany Iraqi forces on the ground in the effort to take back Ramadi. This is, of course, more of the same disastrous policy of the Obama administration that has created the current catastrophe.
“The attitude has to be different”, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday.
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Quite a contrast to the ringing words of FDR on December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked: “As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense”. “If we’re to succeed in defeating terrorism, we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate”, Obama said. Obama’s Republican critics panned the speech as offering nothing new.
