The Washington Free Beacon
8/28/2014
President Obama during a Thursday news conference admitted his administration doesn’t have a strategy yet for defeating ISIL.
“I am confident that as commander in chief, I have the authority to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently. As our strategy develops, we will continue to consult with Congress, and I do think it will be important for Congress to weigh in, and that our consultations with Congress continue to develop so that the American people are part of the debate. But, I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. We don’t have a strategy yet. What I’ve seen in some of the news reports suggests that folks are getting a little further ahead of where we’re at than we currently are. And I think that’s not just my assessment, but the assessment of the military as well,” Obama said.
CNN slammed President Obama’s lack of strategy calling it “odd” and “strange”…
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Related: After Obama Says U.S. Doesn’t ‘Have a Strategy Yet’ on Islamic State, Fiery Texas Congressman Offers Him One (video)
After hearing President Barack Obama declare “we don’t have a strategy yet” on dealing with the Islamic State in Syria, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) offered the commander-in-chief some free advice.
“[Obama] has never had a good strategy,” Gohmert told Fox News host Neil Cavuto…
How U.S. Interventionists Abetted the Rise of ISIS, by Sen. Rand Paul (for WSJ subscribers)
Our Middle Eastern policy is unhinged, flailing about to see who to act against next, with little regard to consequences.
Twitter stitched to Obama #tansuit
President Barack Obama might have held a news conference Thursday on serious issues, but his tan suit got much of the attention as Twitter erupted in critiques and jabs over the president’s summer sartorial decisions. Obama’s tan suit quickly became the focus on the social media platform, earning its own hashtag as both the Beltway crowd and even some fashion experts weighed in…
Update: Latest Big Lie: ‘We Have No Strategy’
They DO have a strategy, but they prefer to appear indecisive. That’s because the strategy would likely provoke even greater criticism than the false confession of endless dithering.
The actual strategy is detente first, and then a full alliance with Iran throughout the Middle East and North Africa. It has been on display since before the beginning of the Obama administration. During his first presidential campaign in 2008, Mr. Obama used a secret back channel to Tehran to assure the mullahs that he was a friend of the Islamic Republic, and that they would be very happy with his policies…
…The central theme in Obama’s outreach to Iran is his conviction that the United States has historically played a wicked role in the Middle East, and that the best things he can do for that part of the world is to limit and withdraw American military might, and empower our self-declared enemies, whose hostility to traditional American policies he largely shares…
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