Obama's yadda-yadda speech

In a thankfully short political speech by president Obama at the Pentagon on Monday, our "leader from behind" lectured the American public about how great he is doing against ISIL, and basically explained that we are going to keep on keeping on.

The only new thing to come out of the speech is that Defense Secretary Ash Carter is heading to the Middle East to do something yet unclear.

Mr. Obama (I call him Mr. because he sees himself as a man) hit on the same talking points, saying that we will continue to hunt down ISIL, train others to hunt down ISIL, and hurt them in their pockets by choking them off financially.

Tell that to the Assad regime who buys their oil and whose truck drivers you dropped warning notices to before we bombed them. Great strategy for a community organizer who wants their vote, but I doubt that will stop the flow of ISIS oil to Assad's people.

The speech never addressed the current fears the American public has on the terrorist threat that is now quite obvious after San Bernadino and Paris. 

Obama is tone deaf to the public and doesn't care about our opinions.

Obama claimed about the terror group that "As we squeeze its heart, we'll make it harder for ISIL to pump out its terror and propaganda." That sounds good, but what does it mean beyond that?

He said the "mission to destroy" so far includes 9,000 airstrikes since the bombing began in September 2014. In the spirit of Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, "Over one year of fighting and only 9,000 airstrikes, that's pussy leadership ."

If Obama thinks that he has in any way eased the fears Americans have about ISIS, he's sadly mistaken. The only fears he has eased is our fear that we've been wrong about him being a gutless apologist and sympathizer for Islam.


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