President Obama admitted today that his administration does not yet have a strategy to combat the militant Islamic group ISIS that has seized large chunks of Iraq and Syria.
When the president was asked if he would seek Congressional approval for U.S. attacks on ISIS targets in Syria, he responded, “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. We don’t have a strategy yet.”
This is beyond pathetic … but don’t count out the perennial Obamessiah tongue bathers
There’s also a more sympathetic interpretation.
Viewed in context with the rest of his remarks, Obama’s point might be that there is no good strategy available for fully defeating ISIS in both Iraq and Syria — which is both consistent with his approach the crisis in those countries, in which he has primarily avoided risky escalation, and perhaps true.
Throughout Obama’s addresses on ISIS, including this press conference, he’s emphasized the need for a political strategy to defeat ISIS, one that focuses not on Washington but on Baghdad and, in an ideal world, Damascus. Barring political reform in the Iraqi government, and the development of some sort of peace in Syria, it’ll be really hard to fully defeat ISIS. In a changing, complicated situation, Obama’s thinking has long seemed to be, it’s better not to prematurely commit to a specific problem that might not fit the changing situation.
You can’t have a strategy for what can’t be done, in other words.
Holy Jaysus, but Zack Beauchamp needs a right-good beating …
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We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
What never seems to be explained by his sycophant media is the guiding strategy ClownDisaster does have, and which precludes his developing the needful plan to deal with ISIS — namely, his intention to surrender to Iran.
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Not having a strategy never stopped him before.
We don’t have a strategy because he can’t make a decision.
Personally, I think that qualifies as an inability “to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” But good luck getting the Vice President and a majority of the cabinet to agree.
The alternative is that he won’t make a decision. In which case, he runs afoul of his oath of office. But good luck getting the House of Representatives to Impeach his skinny black ass. To say nothing about getting the Senate to convict.
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wouldn't be prudent – mitchy/orangeman
I wonder what the world would look like today had we waited for the allies to come up with a political strategy to defeat the axis.
Because it sure seems to me that we started to have trouble finishing off wars when we stopped investing in unconditional surrender and started investing in political reforms and peace processes.
what the world would look like today
I’m reasonably certain there would be far fewer if any Jews remaining in it. So the Arabs and Muslims generally would have been killing one another in the intervening years without so much ready to hand excuse based on Jew-hate. Brazil would be speaking German rather than Portuguese. Russia might not exist, and the Chicoms might not either, though the Chinese may have owned what was Russia by now. What else? So many things . . .
This is probably prophetic. About any number of things:
Rotherham doesn’t exist in the way that the Powers That Be think (or rather, pretend,) it exists. Rotherham exists as a colony of Pakistan.
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for icepicks.
I’m pretty sure you meant Manchukuo, not China.
Actually not, since it wouldn’t have been likely Heisenberg’s discoveries would have been shared with the Nips, who the Germs would have backstabbed to be replaced with the more sensible Chinese.
But that which he gives away was never his anyway. How easy to hand the bully things which others worked and sacrificed for. Thus the endless rounds of golf between Triumphs called fundraisers. His “work” is done, now all that remains is the waiting.
If there were only one Jew left in the world, he would still be blamed for singlehandedly making the sun shine too hotly an a random jihadi’s head.
If every last Jew were dead, Christians would be to blame because Christ was a Jew.
If there were no Jews or Christians, Hindus would be to blame because they didn’t exterminate the Jews so that the jihadis wouldn’t need to. Except that if they had it would only be because those sneaky Jews let them so the jihadis would let their guard down and then the Jews would rise from their graves…
I could go on.
Perhaps someone should put this article on Obama’s desk:
It might be better to slip it into his golfcart, eCurmudgeon. Even there it’s doubtful it would do him any service, insofar as Valerie isn’t going to let go her grip on his balls.
Russia has a strategy
China has a strategy
America lol
Walter White goes to ISIS.
heh, it’s a wonder whether Walter White in ISIS or Ayatollah Khomeini in the White House is the greater threat, given that the pledge to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” is made utterly moot.
ISIS has a strategy and is but a part of an old, very long term grand strategy, as is this group too.
Obama too has a strategy, one which cannot reveal its face, its existence, if it is to succeed, and it too is but a part of a long time grand strategy which is in merger talks with the other one above.
We don’t have a strategy because he can’t make a decision.
I’m thinking it’s more that he made the decision long ago: pull the troops out, “stop” the war, be the Peacemaking Hero.
The fact that ISIS is stirring it up something awful is pissing him off. How DARE they drag him back into this discussion? “It’s been RESOLVED, people. The war is over. If Iraq can’t handle the aftermath of our departure, that’s hardly MY problem.”
Leeden (h/t Insty) says that the strategy is to ally with Iran. Which, I thought we were in bed with the MBs, who are Sunni.
If course, in the hierarchy of enmity among Muslims, Sunni & Shi’a will gladly team up to destroy both Great and Lesser Satans before fighting for the spoils amongst themselves.
I’m not sure why anyone outside the Ummah thinks they can game the Muslims into doing anything that ultimately redounds to the favor of the kuffir over the Ummah.
That’s just not where their allegiances lie.
Well then, I can thank Michael Ledeen for speaking out where most no-one says a word.
About that silence (by the dominant media organs), the question has to come sooner or later: why?
Is it that the silence keepers know and know not to say? Or is it that the silence keepers are simply ignorant and prefer to keep themselves that way? Or what? What other explanations might account for the silence?
After all, he won.