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Obama Does Have
A Strategy, And It’s Awful
Derek Hunter
Aug 31, 2014
On Thursday, President Obama told the world he didn’t yet have a
strategy for dealing with the Islamic Front in Syria. Although it’s
never good to let an army who beheads your citizens and is hell-bent on
your destruction know you don’t know how to deal with them – yet, or
otherwise – Josh Earnest, the president’s press secretary “clarified”
his comments the next day. We do have a plan, it turns out. And the
plan is awful.
Before we dive into the new statements, let’s take a look back at some
older ones.
Back in January, when talking about terrorism, President Obama told the
New Yorker magazine, “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I
think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that
doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant. I think there is a distinction between
the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively
planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists
who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often
sectarian.”
The terrorist group making the biggest waves at the time was ISIS. Was
the president referring to ISIS as part of a “jayvee team?” It went
relatively unnoticed by the mainstream media then. But in the eight
months since, ISIS has become the little jayvee team that could. It has
taken over a landmass the size of Indiana – and growing. It has killed
tens of thousands, displaced millions and amassed a fortune to fund its
continued terror campaign.
But our posture toward this outfit has not changed...
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