(November 15, 2014 at 11:05 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(November 15, 2014 at 9:38 pm)Heywood Wrote: Obama is doing to bare minimum to appease the public on ISIS. If he thought he could get away with it.....legacy wise.....we would be evacuating our embassy and consulate there and letting Baghdad fall.
I don't think Obama is a war monger at all...just the opposite. What I can't figure out is Libya. The only thing that I can think of is that he isn't completely calling the shots and is forced to follow the program established before he became president.
Sweet Reason you are delusional.
Obama expanded the war in Afghanistan, took action to capture Bin Laden that John McCain called foolish during the 08 debates, expanded drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere in the world, intervened in Libya and wanted to do so in Syria before being stopped by a Republican controlled Congress. He only withdrew from Iraq because his hand was forced by W's agreements and the Iraqi regime's refusal to renegotiate.
By what measure do you make the claim that Obama is a peace-and-love hippie? Or an isolationist (like Rand Paul)?
When it comes to having a warrior president, what the fuck else do you want?
Obama bombed Libya without congressional approval...and bombed Iraq without congressional approval. Now he is bombing Syria without congressional approval. I simply do not believe that Obama was stymied in Syria by the republicans as you suggest. The man hasn't let the republicans get in the way of any military action he has taken. He doesn't even bother to consult congress.
As far as expanding the drone program. Bush had a policy of trying to capture and interrogate. Obama doesn't want to interrogate because extracting information can get messy. So he just kills them instead.
Obama forced the Iraqi's to change their government. He certainly could have gotten them to accept a status of forces agreement.....but he didn't even try. Obama didn't want troops in Iraq even though everyone was telling him that was a mistake.
