Monday, September 8, 2014
Obama's Dream Team Coalition Will Be Leaderless while the US Remains in the Air
On Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama will speak to America and the world to outline plans for an expanded US campaign to defeat ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria, a strategy that Obama has said will also involve cooperation from allies in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. He'll meet with congressional leaders from both the Democrat and Republican parties at the White House Tuesday, then deliver a speech detailing his strategy on Wednesday. Sources close to the White House say the strategy will include military, political and diplomatic efforts. It isn't clear whether the President will announce a decision about expanding US airstrikes to Syria to attack ISIS safe havens. The President will also push Iraq's government to fulfill pledges to form a more inclusive government. And he will encourage Arab nations, particularly sunni-majority states whom he called essential in an NBC interview this weekend, to join the West in confrontong ISIS. But Obama has repeatedly ruled out putting US military combat personnel on the ground in either Iraq or Syria. Officials say he instead sees US air power as a way to give cover to Iraqi forces and possibly Western-backed rebels in Syria and help them take on the militants. Whether he will address the widely perceived need to deal with Bashar al-Assad to be successful in eliminating ISIS in Syria is also not known. In the latest official dribble of information, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters today that Obama will discuss efforts to line up allies who would contribute arms, money and training to the anti-ISIS effort. Earnest also said that the President plans to convene a meeting of the United Nations Security Council later this month to talk about plans "to mitigate this threat that faces not just the United States but to our allies and interests around the globe." ~~~~~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers welcomed Obama's efforts to form an international coalition to join the US in fighting ISIS. Rogers also said Obama needs to engage with lawmakers and the public. Rogers believes the President should provide information to the rest of Congress concerning security risks at nearly the same level of detail as congressional intelligence committees receive every day. Rogers said that political leaders should not give the Islamic militants the "time and space" to grow into a more formidable force, which he said happened with the al-Qaida terrorist network. ~~~~~ The ISIS beheading of two American journalists in Syria, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, caused outrage in the US and around the world, leading Obama to make several contradictory statements about either "managing" or "destroying" ISIS, and finally forcing him to make a decision about how to go after the militants. ISIS has already threatened attacks on US personnel and interests in the Middle East. And US and European officials fear that foreign fighters who have joined the militants could ultimately return to their home countries and launch attacks there. His upcoming sessions with lawmakers and the speech to the nation are clearly Obama's attempt to try to show that he now has a strategy in place. "The next phase now is to start going on some offense," Obama said in his NBC interview. Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggested Obama has been indecisive in dealing with the crisis in Syria, as well as other foreign-policy challenges.
"I think the President is really out of touch with reality when it comes to what's happening in the world," Romney said on Fox News. "He is so out of touch with reality that he hasn't taken the action necessary to prevent very bad things from happening." ~~~~~ Dear readers, I think we will hear a lot about coalition building on Wednesday. But, if President Obama continues to insist on a no-US-boots-on-the-ground policy, he will once more be. trying to create a lead-from-behind position for America. I cannot believe that Arab states - fundamrntally divided into sunni and shiite camps - will suddenly decide to join together their armed forces and fight simply because Obama, a US President they already distrust and believe weak, asks them to. Hannibal didn't stay begind in Africa and direct his elephant troops from behind. Patton went with his armored divisions and never stayed behind while they swept across occupied Europe to the gates of Nazi Berlin. And no coalition force composed of warring sectarian Arab factions will defeat ISIS without US military officers and soldiers on the ground to lead them. And if Obama has deluded himself into thinking that NATO will fill the gap on the ground while America stays safely in the air, he is mistaken. NATO's Secretary General has made it clear that the role NATO will play in the Middle East, if asked, is as a training component. It is not relevant that the United States is 70% of NATO. What is relevant is that the NATO alliance sees Europe being threatened by Russia's President Vladimir Putin and correctly understands its mission to be the protection of Europe, not Baghdad. Wouldn't Putin love to see the US and NATO divert from Europe to Iraq, leaving him a clear path to take back eastern Europe. It will not happen. So, what will Obama pull out of his bag of tricks on Wednesday? Undoubtedly more of the same. Coalition building to save the Middle East from a vicious evil -- but sorry, World, America can provide only money and airstrikes -- the rest is up to you.
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You nailed this one!
ReplyDeleteWinston Churchill: “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”
DeleteBarack Obama: “History will be kind to me because never before have so many, invested so much, in so little.”
Money that we eventually have to borrow from various other nation, because friends the United States can't afford to pay for an air war on it own. As Casey Pops said we pay 79%of NATO, some 55% of the United Nations, and an unreal amount if Foreign Aid that comes back to kill some if brave soldiers.
ReplyDeleteNo matter what Obama says to the Congressional leaders tomorrow at the White House or to the American people and listening world on Wednesday evening the truth of the matter is that there will probably be NO TRUTH TO IT or IN IT AT ALL. It will just be empty words read from the teleprompter.
ReplyDeleteObama will one more time say just what he thinks he should and/or what the people want to hear. Either or both will be HIS logical conclusion as to what we all waiting to hear. Remember he is the knower of all truth, he believes we are all his children, he can tell us something and we will accept it as fact and rest comfortably because he and his band on lying thief’s are on watch for our behalf.
His speech will be just what Valerie Jarrett, George Soros, John Kerry, John Brennan, and possibly Chuck Hagel tell him to say. With Jarrett and Soros really making policy and firing the bullets.
Be afraid, be very afraid of what Obama says Wednesday and how much our elected officials from Congress buys into his “jive talk”, because it could set a tone for war, for no war which would give ISIS/ISIL an open invitation to proceed on their killing and land acquisition rampage through major parts of the Middle East and maybe into Fort Bliss, Texas after sneaking across the unguarded borders.
Obama is demonstrating that he governs with the effectiveness and impact of an animated robot.
ReplyDeleteHe is so clearly out-of-touch and so unbelievably disconnected from daily events surrounding him and happenings with their long term impact that you have to wonder if he is on a regimen of something. Hazardously he wonders out of touch aimlessly as serious global events spin out of control around him.
He puts the sovereignty of the United States in jeopardy daily with his in actions and/or wrong choices. It’s difficult after a while to believe that this is not a plan rather than incompetence. A president needs to act with – Consistency – Uniformity – and Assertiveness. Obama acts with Confusion – Unequivocalness – and Timidity.
Many presidential inner circle staffers today act as apologists for the imperial presidency. One reason for this is that many politicians place partisan concerns above loyalty to the Constitution. Thus, they openly defend, and even celebrate, executive branch power grabs when made by a president of their own party. Gene Healy uses the term “the cult of the presidency,” and placing loyalty to the Constitution above partisanship he says is their eventual downfall.
ReplyDeleteObama’s staffer’s problem is that they are all in lock- step with the man. The man who “thinks he knows what he doesn’t know about the office of the Presidency” and therefore “he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know about his job”. So his loyal worker bees are always wrong just like the President is.
Washington mocks those who gave their lives on that day that changed America by the fact that 13 years after 9/11, we still don’t have an out-of-the-box strategy for outwitting radical Islam. Obama had an immediate strategy for dealing with the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., yet even with a year’s notice, he didn’t have a strategy for the violence and unrest in Syria. Isn’t it a priority of the federal government to present a ready defense against foreign enemies?
Our president has a no-strategy strategy for stopping Islamic extremists, isn’t Washington( the President’s lacking leadership) sidestepping our commitment of remembrance, in addition to its duty to protect our land and liberties?
Never would I believe that the 57 considered Honorable Founding Fathers foresaw such a despicable individual occupying the chair of the President of the United States of American as exists today.
ReplyDeleteIt must have seems unimaginable to the likes of Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, etc., that a nearly traitorous man could slip through the cracks of vetting and offer up such lame, lying logic to his birth and upbringing.
Obama’s father was a Muslim, which de facto makes him a Muslim, and he is considered Muslim in the Muslim world. Take, for example, Meriam Ibrahim. Her mother was Christian and raised her Christian. She married a Christian, lives in America and has Christian children. But when she returned to Sudan to visit family, she was arrested for “apostasy” — in other words, for leaving the Islamic faith. She was nine months pregnant and forced to give birth with her legs shackled, thus leaving her baby deformed. This is Islamic law. She is considered a Muslim even though she has never been a Muslim, because her father was a Muslim.
Obama, on the other hand, was raised a Muslim, and went to Islamic school in an Islamic country (Indonesia) from the ages of six to eleven. He was tops in his Quran class. Obama was previously quite religious in Islam and still soundly an Islamic in belief and in good standing within the religion.
He is pro-jihad and it is clear in his foreign policy. We need to stop trying to make him what he is not, or ever will be. And that also includes most of his inner circles of White Houses advisers and his close personal friends that are not Chicago political bosses.
Coalitions, Drones, Fighter Jets, Bombs, feet on the Ground, Policy & Plans etc., etc., along with Transparency in government, left, right, up, down,. All Washington DC In-side the belt way words.
ReplyDeleteBut the Founders believed in the ability of the men and women to govern themselves and not to trust unchecked power, but to promote a robust civil society. But unfortunately over the course of the 20th century the Progressive view came to dominance the modern Democratic Party and to a degree at times the Republican Party also. This is the real core problem we are facing today. The American Idea has not been rejected; just as the progressive counter-vision has never commanded a majority.
Obama will be gone soon and the rebuilding can start in earnest. We have been through worse and we will triumph over Obama’s Constitutional assault.
The Constitution isn’t a living document, but rather the Founders expressly wrote it to be a life giving document.
What we seemingly have here is at very least is a strong Islamic sympathizer not really wanting to go after any Islamic terrorists no matter the level of social disgust they live by and wish for the rest of humanity to live by.
ReplyDeleteWhen a person takes the oath of office to serve as President of the United States he relinquishes his right to conduct business based solely on his own beliefs. he is the President of all of American and the majority rules here if it’s only by a single majority on one vote. Hence Obama should look at his poll numbers in all categories. He is representing himself and the views of a very minority few.
The current foreign policies of President Obama and his inner circle at the White house believes through demilitarizing, and inviting our enemies to sit down and by discussing our differences through diplomacy would solve everything. He has also refused to secure our borders, nor step up and be the leader of the free world, like our allies expected.
ReplyDeleteYES! ISIS is a product due in large part to Obama’s lack of reality and responsibility in understanding the world or the power of the United States Presidency. He can’t fix what he created by accident and blind unawareness.