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Obama admits he has no strategy on ISIS

Busybooty has his deflectors on full today.
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IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL: “This past weekend, the American Political Science Association (ASPA) held its annual meeting in Washington, DC. It was a huge affair, involving 53 ‘divisions’ and 60 ‘related groups,’ and featuring more than one thousand separate panels. Here is the kicker: this year, there were no sessions at all devoted to an assessment of the foreign policy of Barack Obama, and not one panel was dedicated to an examination of Obama’s domestic policy. . . . The fact that there was nothing on the program of this year’s APSA pertaining to the Obama administration is a sign that there is nothing good to say on the subject, nothing to celebrate, and nothing to take pride in. Left with no recourse, the academy turns silent. It was eerie. It was as if there has been no Obama presidency. If I am right in my analysis, the complete absence of panels assessing Obama’s record is an indication that the academy now regards Obama as an indefensible embarrassment.”
 
He is too busy being enraged at Israel ?

Obama's Curious Rage
Calm when it comes to Putin, ISIS and Hamas, but furious with Israel.

By BRET STEPHENS
Sept. 1, 2014 6:32 p.m. ET, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Barack Obama "has become 'enraged' at the Israeli government, both for its actions and for its treatment of his chief diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. " So reports the Jerusalem Post, based on the testimony of Martin Indyk, until recently a special Middle East envoy for the president. The war in Gaza, Mr. Indyk adds, has had "a very negative impact" on Jerusalem's relations with Washington.

Think about this. Enraged. Not "alarmed" or "concerned" or "irritated" or even "angered." Anger is a feeling. Rage is a frenzy. Anger passes. Rage feeds on itself. Anger is specific. Rage is obsessional, neurotic.

And Mr. Obama—No Drama Obama, the president who prides himself on his cool, a man whose emotional detachment is said to explain his intellectual strength—is enraged. With Israel. Which has just been hit by several thousand unguided rockets and 30-odd terror tunnels, a 50-day war, the forced closure of its one major airport, accusations of "genocide" by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, anti-Semitic protests throughout Europe, general condemnation across the world. This is the country that is the object of the president's rage.

The president in Bethesda, Md., July 29. Ron Sachs/Cnp/Zuma Press
Think about this some more. In the summer in which Mr. Obama became "enraged" with Israel, Islamic State terrorists seized Mosul and massacred Shiite soldiers in open pits, Russian separatists shot down a civilian jetliner, Hamas executed 18 "collaborators" in broad daylight, Bashar Assad's forces in Syria came close to encircling Aleppo with the aim of starving the city into submission, a brave American journalist had his throat slit on YouTube by a British jihadist, Russian troops openly invaded Ukraine, and Chinese jets harassed U.S. surveillance planes over international waters.

Mr. Obama or his administration responded to these events with varying degrees of concern, censure and indignation. But rage?

Here, for instance, is the president in early August, talking to the New York Times'sNYT -0.24% Tom Friedman about Russia and Ukraine:

"Finding an off-ramp for [ Vladimir Putin ] becomes more challenging. Having said that I think it is still possible for us, because of the effective organization that we have done with the Europeans around Ukraine, and the genuine bite that the sanctions have had on the Russian economy, for us to arrive at a fair accommodation in which Ukrainian sovereignty and independence is still recognized but there is also recognition that Ukraine does have historic ties to Russia, the majority of their trade goes to Russia, huge portions of the population are Russian speaking, and so they are not going to be severed from Russia. And if we do that a deal should be possible."

This isn't even condemnation. It's an apology. For Mr. Putin. Benjamin Netanyahu should be so lucky.

Now think about what, specifically, has enraged the president about Israel's behavior. "Its actions and its treatment of his chief diplomat."

Actions? Hamas began firing rockets at Israel in June, thereby breaking the cease-fire it had agreed to at the end of the last war, in November 2012. The latest war began in earnest on July 7 when Hamas fired some 80 rockets at Israel. "No country can accept rocket fire aimed at civilians," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the next day, "and we support Israel's right to defend itself against these vicious attacks."

On July 15 Israel accepted the terms of a cease-fire crafted by Egypt. Hamas violated it by firing 50 rockets at Israel. On July 17 Israel accepted a five-hour humanitarian cease-fire. Hamas violated it again. On July 20 Israel allowed a two-hour medical window in the neighborhood of Shujaiyeh. Hamas violated it. On July 26 Hamas announced a daylong cease-fire. It then broke its own cease-fire. On July 28 Israel agreed to a cease-fire for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. The rocket attacks continued. On Aug. 1 Israel accepted a 72-hour cease-fire proposed by the U.S. Hamas violated it within 90 minutes. On Aug. 5 Israel agreed to Egypt's terms for another three-day cease-fire. Hamas violated it several hours before it was set to expire, after Israel announced it would agree to an extension.

If Hamas had honored any of these cease-fires it could have saved Palestinian lives. It didn't. Mr. Obama is enraged—but not with Hamas.

As for Israel's supposed ill-treatment of Mr. Kerry, the president should read Ben Birnbaum's and Amir Tibon's account of his secretary's Mideast misadventures in the July 20 issue of the New Republic <http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118751/how-israel-palestine-peace-deal-died>. It's a portrait of a diplomat with the skills and style, but not the success, of Inspector Clouseau. Mr. Obama might also read Haaretz columnist Ari Shavit's assessment of Mr. Kerry's diplomacy: "The Obama administration," he wrote in July, "proved once again that it is the best friend of its enemies, and the biggest enemy of its friends."

Both Haaretz and the New Republic are left-wing publications, sympathetic to Mr. Obama's intentions, if not his methods.

Still, the president is enraged. At Israel. What a guy.

Write to bstephens@wsj.com
 
BobDownSouth said:
Miles and Vetty are too busy shouting "la la la I can't HEAR YOU!" to click that link....
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Typical conservative tactics. As we see, they make fools of themselves.

Deflect.
Deny.
Change the subject.
Blame Obama.
Make personal attacks.
Answer the question by asking another question.
 
Noor said:
Obama's Curious Rage
Calm when it comes to Putin, ISIS and Hamas, but furious with Israel.
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Aww, those poor, beleagured Israelis! President Obama is being MEAN to them! Maybe the Waffen-IDF can do a little more target practice, shooting at kids on the tourist beaches. That always makes them feel better.

Or maybe they can annex a little more land in the West Bank. Land annexation ("Lebensraum") was very popular with their spiritual ancestors in Germany.
 
BobDownSouth said:
Aww, those poor, beleagured Israelis! President Obama is being MEAN to them! Maybe the Waffen-IDF can do a little more target practice, shooting at kids on the tourist beaches. That always makes them feel better.

Or maybe they can annex a little more land in the West Bank. Land annexation ("Lebensraum") was very popular with their spiritual ancestors in Germany.
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Israel, at least Bebe, doesn't seem particularly concerned by Obama these days. I posted that mainly because it seemed odd that he was spending his time being enraged at them rather than developing a strategy on ISIS or anything else that might be productive, not that I like the right any better...
 
Noor said:
Israel, at least Bebe, doesn't seem particularly concerned by Obama these days. I posted that mainly because it seemed odd that he was spending his time being enraged at them rather than developing a strategy on ISIS or anything else that might be productive, not that I like the right any better...
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Israel is not the least bit concerned, as long as those US billions keep pourin' in, and the knowledge that the USA will ultimately back up any bad behavior on their part.
 
Lets say I believe 9 airliners were stolen in Tripoli. What exactly are they going to accomplish? The US has nothing to worry about, could they potentially actually hit a base or embassy? Is that even realistic? What are you expecting them to do with it? And lets assume they actually have that other missing flight too.
 
President Barack Obama reportedly ignored questions from the press Tuesday afternoon after the jihadist group calling itself the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) released a video that appeared to show a second American journalist being beheaded.
According to a tweet from Time magazine political reporter Zeke Miller, Obama ignored a question that was "shouted" at him as he boarded Marine One and departed the White House for a previously planned trip to Europe. Miller told Business Insider the question was "Sotloff-related."

Bloomberg Television's White House correspondent, Phil Mattingly, subsequently reported Obama got on board Air Force One and left for Estonia without making a public statement following his helicopter flight from the White House.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obam...estions-about-isis-video-2014-9#ixzz3CChqqHns




Still no plan?
 
Sean Renaud said:
Lets say I believe 9 airliners were stolen in Tripoli. What exactly are they going to accomplish? The US has nothing to worry about, could they potentially actually hit a base or embassy? Is that even realistic? What are you expecting them to do with it? And lets assume they actually have that other missing flight too.
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They're going to fly them into US landmarks, probably a week from Wednesday.

Never mind that the one time it was tried before, we weren't expecting it and they still only had a 75% success rate.
 
Despite video evidence of the gruesome acts and masked men issuing direct challenges to the United States, the Obama administration still has no strategy for dealing with these savages. Adding insult to injury during her daily briefing Tuesday afternoon, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said she isn't going to "label" what ISIS did to Sotloff.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiep...beheading-im-not-going-to-label-this-n1886347



Probably doesn't want to make them mad.
 
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