If ISIS is a JV team, if the crisis is media driven hyperbole

[Willie99]

then why the fuck do we need an international coalition to stop them?



another "Benghazi YouTube video" moment by the lying POS jackass

our president is an international laughing stock, FACT

he's actually embarrassing me at this point, STFU already. Sit back and let other people lead the way, you go golfing

OK

 

[GasMan]

Obama
Clinton
Kerry

The world is laughing.

 

[russ1945]

Benghazi exposed Obama for what he is. Everything that has come down since then has reinforced that. Calling ISIS a bunch of JV's and saying they were a WH joke reinforced how detached Obama is. How could anyone be stupid enough to let that out in an interview as a matter of record.

Yes he is a laughing stock and he is accomplishing his goal to reduce our role in the world. Announcing our withdrawal from Iraq was all ISIS needed to take it up a notch.

If the Republicans take the Senate and maintain the House Obama's last two years will be the exact opposite of his first two years when the Dem's had them both. It will be his worst nightmare and politics will be his only tool. Worst POTUS in my lifetime.

 

[SheriffJoe]

There's a reason his college records were sealed. If the American people knew his true thoughts and motives they'd be demanding his head on a platter, rightfully so.

The lamestream media and American people have had MANY chances to demand answers and expose the fraud but have refused to do so.

The consequences for such cowardice and inaction?

You reap what you sow.

 

[superbeets]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The king of Saudi Arabia has warned that extremists could attack Europe and the U.S. if there is not a strong international response to terrorism.


While not mentioning any terrorist groups by name, King Abdullah's statement appeared aimed at drawing Washington and NATO forces into a wider fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and its supporters in the region. Saudi Arabia openly backs rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad, but is concerned that the breakaway al Qaeda group could also turn those very same weapons on the kingdom.
"I am certain that after a month they will reach Europe and, after another month, America," he said at a reception for foreign ambassadors Friday.


Official Saudi media carried the king's comments early Saturday.
"These terrorists do not know the name of humanity and you have witnessed them severing heads and giving them to children to walk with in the street," the king said, urging the ambassadors to relay his message directly to their heads of state.

 

[Willie99]

Just for clarification, I believe ISIS is a threat to the west and they will carry out an attack in the west if they can. In the meantime, they'll continue to murder and torture people in the ME

I'm mocking the least prepared man in the room for once again showing us why he's known as the least prepared man in the room

 

[SheriffJoe]

Obama’s Miserable Failure

September 1, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 7 Comments

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

It was always obvious what Obama’s supporters wanted. They weren’t willing to settle for a Hillary, just another politician who would punch the clock, deliver tepid speeches and push their leftist agenda.

They wanted someone larger than life. A head made for Mount Rushmore and a body that would be cast in statues across the country. Speeches meant to be studied in classrooms for the next hundred years.

They compared him to JFK and Reagan. He was treated as the icon that his backers wanted him to be. His election was supposed to be a watershed moment in American history.

Instead it ends in miserable failure.

At home, Obama is caught in a desperate tug of war with Republicans. He won the budget battle by sending park rangers to shut down national monuments. His last ditch gamble for holding on to the Senate is using racial tensions in Ferguson to promote black voter turnout.

And if he wins, all he’ll have is what he has now.

This is how shoddy and tawdry the reality of Hope and Change has become. Trapped in a corner, Obama is dragging out the dirtiest Chicago politics. He’s trying to hold off the inevitable by using the same types of tactics that the crooked mayor of his hometown would.

There’s no inspiration here. No words that will resound across time. Just dirty rats on a sinking ship.

Blame Congress has become the new Blame Bush. ObamaCare is a slow motion disaster that requires constant course corrections to keep it from coming apart. It’s not the new Social Security or Medicare. It’s the new HMO; a clumsy construction that most Americans are unhappy with.

Obama’s only power comes from his abuse of his authority, but what one man does, another man can undo. Instead of creating a lasting legislative legacy, Obama’s executive orders and legislation by administration are a house of cards that his successor can topple with the same pen and phone.

They seem intimidating in the way that the actions of tyrants are, but tyranny can be undone with tyranny. What Obama failed to do was build a consensus. He didn’t change the course of American history. He didn’t win the hearts and minds of Americans. Now he’s reduced to vandalizing America.

Obama said that Putin’s actions in Ukraine weren’t a sign of strength, but a sign of weakness. There is some truth to that. Putin’s economic policies have failed and he was unpopular at home. But the Obama tyrannical reign of phone and pen also isn’t a sign of strength. It’s a sign of weakness.

Like Putin, Obama has run out of options.

Unpopular with voters, shunned by his own party in battleground states, he rules by executive order and parties with influential executives while ignoring his responsibilities.

That’s not Reagan. It’s not JFK. It’s not even LBJ.

Stumbling to the microphone in a tan suit, he admits that he has no strategy for ISIS. Why should he? A few months ago he was calling a force that controls much of Iraq and Syria a junior varsity team while claiming credit for defeating Al Qaeda. Now his spokesman insists that the US is not at war with ISIS.

What Obama says has no relationship to reality. It’s always been that way. It’s only becoming obvious to those talking heads inside his media bubble now.

Obama’s foreign policy consisted of a flowchart of how things were supposed to work. There was an arrow from “Outreach” to “Reconciliation” to “New Middle East”. Instead Iraq is on fire. Libya is on fire. Syria is on fire. Everyone else is either mocking him or begging for his help without seriously expecting him to do anything useful.

And the flowchart doesn’t mention any of it.

ISIS was supposed to be a JV team. Iraqis are supposed to reconcile. ISIS isn’t supposed to be at war with the United States. Like most ideologues, Obama confuses what his reading of the inevitable forces of history says should happen with what is actually happening. Political Islam was supposed to stabilize the Middle East. Instead the future will be defined by a clash between national armies and Islamist militias.

Removing US troops from Iraq was supposed to fix the problem. The best anti-colonialist scholarship said it would. Instead combined with the Arab Spring, it let Al Qaeda take over much of the country.

But what else was an ideological fanatic big on theory and short on life experience going to do?

Obama is Fareed Zakaria. He’s Thomas Friedman. He’s Paul Krugman. He read all the books and he talks a good game so that it’s easy to miss the fact that his ideas don’t have much to do with real life.

Friedman babbling about the flattening world, Krugman pretending that money is infinite and Zakaria jumping from one ridiculous globalist idea to another sound good in a lecture hall or a column.

But only an idiot would actually listen to them.

Obama’s speeches sounded good, but only idiots would elect a man with no life experience, no executive experience and no meaningful experience of any kind for speaking well, instead of doing well.

Of course Obama doesn’t have a strategy for ISIS. Why would he?

ISIS wasn’t supposed to happen. His schedule, in between golfing and fundraising, had amnesty and Global Warming unilateral orders penciled in. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine also wasn’t on the schedule. Killing missile defense and being incredibly flexible were supposed to fix that.

As a last resort, sanctions, the universal failure of global diplomacy, were supposed to keep this from happening. But like everything else that Obama tried, they didn’t work.

Obama doesn’t live in the world of “What is” but the world of “What should be”. Inspiration does come from the world of “What should be”, but when it isn’t grounded in the world of “What is” then it manifests as insanity or leads to miserable failures.

The difference between the brilliant architect and the lunatic on the street corner is that while both of them know “What should be”, only one of them knows “What is”.

Obama’s inspiration came from “What should be”. He never did understand “What is”. His followers thought and think that “What is” can be waved away, ignored or beaten down as a last resort. That is what he is doing now with his executive orders and his unilateral rule. He is trying to salvage his miserable failure as a leader by forcing his way on the whole country.

It hasn’t made him popular. It hasn’t made his way into the American Way. It has isolated him. The American people have rejected him in poll after poll. Now the media is slowly accepting their verdict.

And no, he doesn’t have a strategy for that.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-miserable-failure/

 

[SheriffJoe]

But what else was an ideological fanatic big on theory and short on life experience going to do?

Obama is Fareed Zakaria. He’s Thomas Friedman. He’s Paul Krugman. He read all the books and he talks a good game so that it’s easy to miss the fact that his ideas don’t have much to do with real life.

Friedman babbling about the flattening world, Krugman pretending that money is infinite and Zakaria jumping from one ridiculous globalist idea to another sound good in a lecture hall or a column.

But only an idiot would actually listen to them.

Obama’s speeches sounded good, but only idiots would elect a man with no life experience, no executive experience and no meaningful experience of any kind for speaking well, instead of doing well.

Hurray for academia! k:

 

[carlspackler]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The king of Saudi Arabia has warned that extremists could attack Europe and the U.S. if there is not a strong international response to terrorism.


While not mentioning any terrorist groups by name, King Abdullah's statement appeared aimed at drawing Washington and NATO forces into a wider fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and its supporters in the region. Saudi Arabia openly backs rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad, but is concerned that the breakaway al Qaeda group could also turn those very same weapons on the kingdom.
"I am certain that after a month they will reach Europe and, after another month, America," he said at a reception for foreign ambassadors Friday.


Official Saudi media carried the king's comments early Saturday.
"These terrorists do not know the name of humanity and you have witnessed them severing heads and giving them to children to walk with in the street," the king said, urging the ambassadors to relay his message directly to their heads of state.

This pierce of shit has the audacity to lecture us about the dangers of Islamic terrorism?

15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were citizens of Saudi Arabia.

They came up through their radical wahhabi schools. Would not shed a tear if ISIS's next be-headings are the "royals" in the house of Saud.

 

[russ1945]

There's a reason his college records were sealed. If the American people knew his true thoughts and motives they'd be demanding his head on a platter, rightfully so.

The lamestream media and American people have had MANY chances to demand answers and expose the fraud but have refused to do so.

The consequences for such cowardice and inaction?

You reap what you sow.

It is never too late to check into someone's background. I did not do it until 2009 with Obama because I knew a Dem was going to win in an anti-Bush vote. I was shocked but it was too late. What I found out about Obama's past, those who influenced him and how, and those who began to associate with him when he got to Chicago. The whole question mark about who paid for his education and how he got into Harvard at all made me wonder big time. The deliberate attempt to hide all of those records even now shows there are many things to hide. Yes he wrote a book about himself but what is not in that book is much more relevant than what is in it. I have been fighting the lame stream media since 2009 once I knew they were part of the problem.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

There's a reason his college records were sealed. If the American people knew his true thoughts and motives they'd be demanding his head on a platter, rightfully so.

The lamestream media and American people have had MANY chances to demand answers and expose the fraud but have refused to do so.

The consequences for such cowardice and inaction?

You reap what you sow.

Yes indeed. Sometimes I think we blame Obama too much, then I sober up. Then I realize that those who voted for him are the real culprits and I get wasted all over again.

 

[Ttratter]

Obama
Clinton
Kerry

The world is laughing.

Which Clinton, or did you mean Clinton's?

 

[ScottL]

This pierce of shit has the audacity to lecture us about the dangers of Islamic terrorism?

15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were citizens of Saudi Arabia.

They came up through their radical wahhabi schools. Would not shed a tear if ISIS's next be-headings are the "royals" in the house of Saud.

Piece of Shit is right:

[h=2]Monday, September 01, 2014[/h] [h=3]Saudi op-ed reiterates how evil Jews are[/h]
Perhaps stung by the fact that Saudi Arabia and Israel have been on the same side in many regional conflicts, the official Saudi news agency Okaz published an op-ed to ensure that Saudi readers will never think warmly of Jews.

​

Written by Abdullah al-Sultan, the article touches on many of the classic manifestations of Arab and Muslim antisemitism, the bigotry that no "human rights" group wants to admit exists.

Some lowlights from the article:

• After World War II, the Jewish-controlled media started concentrating on making Arabs and Islam look bad.
• "Much of the culture of mutilation practiced by Jews against Arabs comes through movies, books, newspapers, magazines and entertainment programs on satellite channels."
• Jews ruthlessly used 9/11 to incite the West against Muslims.
• Israel publishes false copies of the Kora n to make it look evil and bigoted.
• Jews love to kill others and to seize their property and possessions and honor, not to mention how they are the killers of prophets.
• Jews are known for breaking their covenants and conventions.
• As the Koran says, Jews are in the forefront of treachery, fraud and extortion.
• Jews make themselves look moral, but Judaism allows them to cheat and steal and kill with complete impunity.
• This is because they think they are God's chosen people, and this makes them feel greatness and superiority over others.
• In conclusion, while the Jews were able to outwit the world for a while, they will not be able to continue to do so forever.

Articles like this never have any negative repercussions. There are never any outraged letters to the editor or comments and the articles are never considered controversial in the mainstream Arabic press. When anything remotely anti-Muslim is written in Israeli newspapers there are instant condemnations from all quarters and anguished responses written to distance the responderfrom the noxious article - but in the Arab world, virulently antisemitic articles written for state media doesn't cause the slightest consternation.

In fact, if you want to make Arabs sit up and notice an article, write one that is complimentary to Jews and Judaism - and watch the outrage that results.

This simple test shows the huge difference in morality between the Arab world and Israel. In one side, hate is encouraged and co-existence is derided, and the other side is the exact opposite. But pointing out that self-evident fact is not something that the media or human rights groups are comfortable with.

So they pretend it isn't there.

 

[ScottL]

Those evil Jews again:


A first-time mother from Syria is happily cradling her newborn at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed (Tsfat), after giving birth to a healthy 2.6 kg girl at the Israeli medical facility on Tuesday (August 26, 2014). This is the seventh birth of a Syrian baby at the northern medical center.
“We have already treated a number of mothers and babies from Syria and we do so with devotion and love,” said Esther Ambar, the nurse in charge of the Neonatal Department at the Ziv Medical Center.


The latest new Syrian mother to give birth in Israel is a 25-year-old resident of Quneitra. She told the Israeli medical staff that fighting in the Quneitra area made her pregnancy very difficult. “Because of the war there is a shortage of food and there are no health and birthing facilities. I knew that I was already in my 40th week and that the birth was imminent and there was no one who could help me. I heard from relatives and friends that Syrian casualties are transferred to Israel where they receive good care,” she said.


When her water broke, the young woman asked family and friends to take her to the Israel-Syrian border. The IDF transferred her to hospital.


“I was anxious and afraid, but the Israeli nurses and doctors treated me with sensitivity and respect and the delivery went well. I am very happy that I came here, they are treating me nicely and taking care of me and my new baby,” she said.


Ambar, who lives on Kibbutz Ein-Zivan on the Golan Heights which only a few days ago was shelled by rockets from Syria, is helping the mother take care of her new daughter. “We live in a strange reality. On Sunday, we ran to our bomb-shelters when a number of rockets hit the ground close to the kibbutz, yesterday a number of mortar bombs were fired on this area and today we delivered a Syrian baby whose mother arrived from the region from which we were fired upon,” Ambar said. “We hear and see the fighting in Syria daily and we know that the population there is in great difficulty.


“Ordinary people are not interested in wars, the Syrian mothers who reach us relay stories of the difficulties they experience in their country and speak about their hope for peace and a better future for their children. Their gratitude is moving and we wish that this will be a bridge to a dialogue between us and them and a hope for peace and quiet in the region.”