It is a good summary of US involvement but leaves out the contributions and involvement of many other countries but not sure what your point is.

My wife is a lawyer so I know when to recognize I am being led into a trap just come out and say it.

 

I think this discussion, hence NewK's 'loaded question' , came from the comments about our (sacless) CiC.

Not to turn this political, NewK et al., but this administration has been the absolute worst the military has ever seen, including the eight M. Lewinski....err, Clinton years.

This scourge of individuals do not respond, nor are they even the slightest affected by 'soft power' military tactics.

Our current person, who holds the title of CiC - having not once acted like it - has done more to weaken this country's position in the world, than anyone else. (In the eyes of our friends & foes.)

I personally would like to see him brought up on charges of treason when the first family exits the White House, but obviously that wouldn't happen when the party 'buys' their constituents with myriad entitlement programs.

Good day.

 

Let me add to the timeline:



In January, President Barack Obama dismissed the terrorist group ISIS as a "JV Team" that didn't pose a real threat to America.

“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 remarks made in an interview with New Yorker may very well come back to haunt Obama as the latest ISIS atrocities come to light.

a video apparently showing the barbaric beheading of American journalist James Foley at the hands of ISIS was posted to YouTube under the heading "A Message To America." The video also included the al Qaeda affiliated group making an audacious challenge to President Obama after showing Journalist Steven Joel Sotloff on camera.

FLASHBACK: Obama Dismisses ISIS As 'JV Team' | Truth Revolt

 

Ha! Now that's funny. You know your wife well. Ok. I'll cut to the chase.

Why all the crap talk (not a legal term) about Obama? Why the questioning of what side he's on? Why the claims that he's weak, and/or won't retaliate? Why the suggestion that him not naming the enemy is more important than the bombs we've been dropping on them for the past 7 months?

He's even using an outdated congressional authorization as a basis for doing what he's doing and could have waited for Congress to screw it up before launching the attacks. (A few weeks ago, in the SOTU, he asked for applicable authorization.) So, he's basically fighting an unconstitutional war. But, you don't know what side he's on.

It makes no sense.

Can you explain?

PS: Good recognition. Your wife taught you well.

 

Not to get too political either but we'd be a lot better off if we'd left Saddam where he was. Iran would be much less of a problem as well. 20/20 hindsight I know but pretty obvious at the time too.

 

Really, dropping bombs is going to make a difference? I've watched the real-time video feed. Like everything else Osama has done, he's doing it half-azzed so he can 'say he did something' but, "look it didn't work?"


Reference explanation above.

 

I didn't ask if dropping bombs was going to work. I asked if the bombs we were dropping were more important than the name we we decide to call the people we are dropping bombs on?

Name them correctly as being sub-human, or drop bombs on them to end their human lives for being sub human.

Which one is more important to you?

 

They're BOTH equally important and mutually inclusive of the greater goal. As our highest ranking CIVILIAN leader, who by the Constitution of the U.S, is placed in the position of CiC, it is his - or possibly in the future - her DUTY to "NAME the threat" appropriately AND "ACT" accordingly, in the most effective and efficient manner to minimize said threat. IMHO, he is failing and in the previous 6+ years has failed to do so.

YMMV.

 

You haven't really shown any facts to support your political assertions.

Treason? GMAFB

By the way:
Wednesday, February 04, 2015

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.

Go back to your little Faux News corner.

P.S. Megyn Kelly is HOT

<img src="http://thesenewtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/megyn-kelly-3.jpg" alt="megyn-kelly-3.jpg (807×569)"/>

 

I know it's popular for most on here to blame Clinton and Obama for everything wrong in the world the last 100 years,(Hell, some on here have written best sellers about it) just kidding brother Buzz BUT *** did 8 years of Reagan, 4 years of Daddy Bush and 8 years of Bubba Bush do? If it was so easy to fix the Arab world or just incinerate them, why did they not do it? That part of the world has been in turmoil since time began.