Islamic State: Degrade and ultimately destroy is no war strategy, especially against a terrorist state scheming the infiltration of our southern border. American leadership at its best would be to destroy IS, ASAP. Imagine President Roosevelt announcing after Pearl Harbor that first we have to degrade the Empire of Japan. Imagine Churchill promising, We shall degrade and ultimately destroy them on the beaches ... . Go big or go home, Mr. President, Sarah Palin said Thursday. Charge in, strike hard, get out. Win. Amen. Instead, President Obama says, U.S. action depended upon Iraqis forming an inclusive government, which they have now done in recent days, therefore I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. Baghdads political progress is irrelevant to our destruction of the Islamic State. Democrats longtime notion of an exiting U.S. military helping a fledgling Iraqi representative rule to fly on its own is more discredited than ever now that IS controls such vast Iraqi territory. And broad coalition? Turkey wont allow attacks from nearby Turkish air bases. And both Britain and Germany say they wont help with airstrikes; Germany wasnt even asked, its foreign minister revealed. You cant assemble a coalition if your leadership is in serious doubt, and this president abandoned Afghanistan after calling it thewarthathastobewon. His Iraq pullout, and the calling of his Syria red line bluff, created the IS monster. American air power could have decimated ISIL many months ago while entering Iraq, before it amassed its immense financial, territorial and oil resources, and before its recruitment expanded. Obama vows, in two weeks I will chair a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, where Russia and China have vetoes. This presidents odd, unprecedented practice of sitting at the Security Council roundtable is the very picture of the world leading its sole superpower, instead of the reverse. Polling shows Americans feel significantly less safe today than before the 9/11 attacks, 13 years ago this week. Ex-CIA covert ops officer Mike Baker chillingly told talk radios Laura Ingraham last month of extensive communication between ISIL and Mexicos do-anything-for-money drug cartels. Breitbart on Wednesday reported on Homeland Security Department Senate testimony of ISILs worldwide social media exchanges discussing infiltration into the U.S. across our southwestern border. In his July, 2007 surge speech, President Bush presciently warned that premature Iraq withdrawal would mean a terrorist safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan ... increasing the probability that American troops would have to return ... to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous. That more dangerous enemy is here. The IS safe haven in Iraq and Syria will soon be followed by Afghanistan, from which 9/11 was launched and where the Taliban are poised to return. Yet Obama proposes a half-hearted proxy war that depends on weak-kneed allies and a fragile inclusive Iraqi regime holding together. And this strategy is designed to let him shift blame — onto Congress, and the Iraqis and other allies — in two or three years. No friend or foe listens to President Obama and believes the U.S. is in this to win. Read More At Investors Business Daily: news.investors/ibd-editorials/091114-717067-obama-cant-destroy-islamic-state-his-policies-created.htm#ixzz3D3Gk7uLt Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:03:26 +0000
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