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2014-09-01 Home Front: WoT

Rogers: Obama's inertia on Syria-Islamic State part of foreign policy plan empowering rivals

[FOXNEWS] Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said Sunday that President B.O.'s inertia on whether to launch ~~Arclight~~ airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria is part of an overall foreign policy failure that is empowering China, North Korea, Russia and other rival nations.

"It's all related," Rogers, R-Mich., told "Fox News Sunday." "The world sees the United States as withdrawn."

Rogers said the president's apparent disengagement or slow response is the reason China has engaged U.S. pilots and Russian President Vladimir Putin

...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
has moved into eastern Ukraine without fear of consequence.

"U.S. foreign policy is in free fall," he said. "Traditional allies are saying maybe the United States is not the best to lead us."

The president faces a big test later this week when he travels to Europe for a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
summit where he hopes to build a coalition to stop Islamic State, the terror group formerly known as ISIS, and other murderous Moslem groups in the Middle East.

Rogers told Fox News he doesn't believe White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest when he said last week that military options are "still being developed."

Posted by Fred 2014-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top
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#1 Rogers told Fox News he doesn't believe White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest when he said last week that military options are "still being developed."

In defense of Ernest, military options are constantly being refined, developed, and reviewed. It's part of an ongoing process. In my opinion, Rogers bears close watching.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-01 03:40|| 2014-09-01 03:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Rogers is retiring

Posted by Frank G 2014-09-01 10:09|| 2014-09-01 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't he doing a talk-radio show after he's out next year? Kind of odd - HPSCI chmn to radio host. Cannot recall his explanation for gettin' out.

Kind of striking - well, any more nothing is surprising, esp. on the down-side - that one of only lonely voices speaking obvious critical truths on matters of supreme national importance is a retiring, obscure House chairman.

The country has changed in ways that make it unrecognizable, and not just in the many obvious (negative) ways most of us think of right away. This vacuum of even partisan opposition leadership, amidst a national decline unseen in our history, is one more ....

Posted by Verlaine 2014-09-01 12:44|| 2014-09-01 12:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Kind of striking - well, any more nothing is surprising, esp. on the down-side - that one of only lonely voices speaking obvious critical truths on matters of supreme national importance is a retiring, obscure House chairman. Verlaine

Striking indeed, ....on both counts. While I adjust me tinfoil hat chinstrap, IMA awaiting bits on new information on the Blue Mountain - Aegis Security [Ms. Rogers] Benghazi connection.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-01 15:49|| 2014-09-01 15:49|| Front Page Top

#5 WELCOME TO OWG GLOBALISM - PERHAPS YOUSE HOID OF IT???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-01 22:57|| 2014-09-01 22:57|| Front Page Top

00:48 Besoeker
00:40 Frank G