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Obama: ISIS Not Getting ‘stronger,’ We Have ‘contained’ Them
2015-11-14
Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” President Barack Obama seemingly downplayed the threat of ISIS in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that aired on Friday’s broadcast of “Good Morning America.”

Stephanopoulos asked Obama if ISIS was gaining in strength, to which Obama denied they were.
You might want to revise your opinion in light of yesterday's news, Mr. President...
“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” Obama responded. “What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq, and in Syria they’ll come in, they’ll leave, but you don’t see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain.”

“What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures,” he admitted. “We’ve made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters and part our goal has to be to recruit more effective Sunni partners in Iraq to really go on offense rather than simply engage in defense.”
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Just think how much worse the attacks would have been had they been conducted by a Varsity Team./sarc
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2015-11-14 12:37  

#6  Not crazy, just uneducated

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-11-14 10:29  

#5  Not crazy, just uneducated, lacking the thick understanding of the Enlightenment and Anglo-American history. He makes Harding look like some damn genius. Yes, I'll say it, I would have much preferred that rat bastard William Jefferson Clinton over this disaster.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-11-14 10:17  

#4  The problem with 'surgical' strikes or application of force is that they become in effect just another off shoot of primitive warfare. In modern parlance, PR wars. That is displays of force or dominance without serious and deep consequences for everyone involved. It is what leads to spiraling escalation by participants. Given that one side's only goal is the ultimate submission of the other, the other side can not assuage its need for self serving morality by seeking solutions other than the submission of the other opponent by any means available. It's either you or them. This man has already surrendered and he wants to take the rest of us with him.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-11-14 09:56  

#3  This muth****ker is crazy
Posted by: chris   2015-11-14 09:39  

#2  How is reversing everything Bush working out for you Mr. president?
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2015-11-14 09:31  

#1  Uh huh.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-11-14 09:25  

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