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Home Front: WoT
Military action not always right: Obama
2014-05-30
[The Peninsula] President Barack Obama mounted a defiant defence of his global leadership yesterday, rebuking critics who see him as weak but warning that not every global threat justifies a US military response.

In a major speech at the West Point military academy, Obama denied US power had ebbed under his watch, after he withdrew troops from Iraq and as he does the same in Afghanistan.

He also pledged to ramp up support for Syrian rebels, vowed to stand up to Russia over Ukraine and promised to make drone strikes against terror suspects more transparent.
Posted by:Fred

#11  OTOH CHINA DAILY > [Daily Sheeple] USDOD SECRETARY HAGEL ADMITS, [21ST Century] "NEW WORLD ORDER BEING BUILT".

Title paraph for clarity.

* DRUDGEREPORT > [FT.com] FIGHTING TALK AMID SHRINKING OF AMERICAN MILITARY MIGHT, OBAMA SEEKING TO SCALE BACK US GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY WIDOUT SIGNALLING A RETREAT.

As a reminder, as the US retreats or pulls back across the world, it may decide to destroy stratgic Pacific isles, e.g. GUAM, ETAL., wid "Earthquake/Tectonic Bombs" in order to deny to enemies, ala so-called "A2/AREA-DENIAL".

Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-05-30 23:10  

#10  Well said, swksvolFF!

You left out "We shall always give up."
Posted by: Barbara   2014-05-30 21:26  

#9  We will fight them on the platitudes. We will fight them on the hash tags. We will fight them in the fields of straw men. We will never surrender without a vote. And if by no fault of ours we are overcome we will wait for the day when the new world is better able to adapt to diversity and gather our strength, which is our diversity, and regain the old. Or not, depends actually.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-05-30 17:37  

#8  "The President is giving the American people what they want to hear. But this is not the job of the President."
Posted by: newc   2014-05-30 16:42  

#7  And label them domestic terrorists when they return home.
Posted by: Lowspark   2014-05-30 16:41  

#6  Take it.

As Bobby noted, this guy's speeches are never about the audience. If it were, he wouldn't be up there bragging about how he is going to arm the very people these graduates are about to go out and combat.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-05-30 12:26  

#5  I'm using that (unless you're one of the Righthaven folks), swksvolFF.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2014-05-30 11:18  

#4  We will fight them on the platitudes. We will fight them on the hash tags. We will fight them in the fields of straw men.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-05-30 10:32  

#3  
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-05-30 09:25  

#2  "Tough talk often draws headlines but war rarely conforms to slogans," Obama said.

He must be referring to...."red lines."
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-05-30 08:26  

#1  *cough*Libya*cough*

The EO prez doesn't seem to grasp that other components of not being weak, are decisiveness and effectiveness. The proverbial amateurish Chinese Fire Brigade approach to events comes across as, indeed, weak.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-05-30 08:21  

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