I cannot understand why Obama does not have a strategy. Susan Rice thinks the problem is a video, Uncle Joe thinks Al Qaeda is dead, Brennen thinks that there is no Islamist threat, the DoD concludes that there is no threat even thought Sgt. Hagel does.
Nobody who's complaining has a strategy either. Perhaps that is because the American public's appetite for war was exhausted in the fruitless adventures of George W. Bush, so now, whatever the provocation, the one thing President Obama will NOT be permitted to do is commit American troops in the middle east.
Putting together a strategy when those with boots on the ground, even those who hate ISIS, are almost universally not on speaking terms with us, would daunt anyone who took themselves seriously, rather than throwing out angry sound bytes as a substitute for courage.
Born 1945 in Los Angeles. Worked from 1998-2016 as adjunct teacher at University of California at Irvine Ext. teaching English as a second language.
Served three years in US Army Military Police at Erlangen, Germany 1966-68.
1970-1973- Criminal Investigator with US Customs
1973-1995 Criminal investigator with Drug Enforcement Administration. Stationed in Los Angeles, Bangkok, Milan, Italy, Pittsburgh and Office of Training, FBI Academy, Quantico, Va. until retirement.
Author of Erlangen-An American's History of a German Town-University Press of America 2005,
The Story of Papiamentu- A Study in Slavery and Language, University Press of America, 2002, and
The Languages of the Former Soviet Republics-Their History and Development, University Press of America, 2000.
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I cannot understand why Obama does not have a strategy. Susan Rice thinks the problem is a video, Uncle Joe thinks Al Qaeda is dead, Brennen thinks that there is no Islamist threat, the DoD concludes that there is no threat even thought Sgt. Hagel does.
Squid
Beats the hell out of me, Squid.
Nobody who's complaining has a strategy either. Perhaps that is because the American public's appetite for war was exhausted in the fruitless adventures of George W. Bush, so now, whatever the provocation, the one thing President Obama will NOT be permitted to do is commit American troops in the middle east.
Putting together a strategy when those with boots on the ground, even those who hate ISIS, are almost universally not on speaking terms with us, would daunt anyone who took themselves seriously, rather than throwing out angry sound bytes as a substitute for courage.
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