Barack Obama began his candidacy as the pure progressive and anti-war candidate. He spoke openly against the Iraq War since its beginning, beginning with an October 2002 speech he gave while alongside Jesse Jackson. Obama, in that speech, suggested the war was a ploy to distract voters from domestic issues impacting minorities. His exact words were: "What I am opposed to is the attempt by potential hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty state, a drop in the medium income—to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That’s what I am opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war, a war based not on reason, but on passion, not on principle, but on politics."
Obama reminded us constantly that he was against the war from the beginning. He felt that Iraq was a distraction. However, he also said that we ought to also move troops into Pakistan, a shakey ally of the United States, but an ally nonetheless, with or without the permission of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
And as he demanded the troops to be brought home immediately, his rise in the Democratic Party took on a messianic characteristic.
Obama began as the most liberal candidate in the race in 2008, and began proposing a geopolitical posture that was considered by some to be even more aggressive than that of President Bush. At the time Obama's campaign was drawing more financial support from more voters than any other candidate, but he was seen as an underdog because of his lack of experience.
History was made, and for the first time in history a person purely anti-American became President of the United States.
Oh, and his election was historical for some other reason, too, but I can't remember what that reason was.
In 2012, after four years of failure, chaos, and hard left liberal policies, the uninformed voters rallied around the anti-American candidate, again, as he continued to blame everything on Bush, and proclaimed he saved us from Iraq by pulling us out, and was in the process of getting us out of Afghanistan. We have no business over there, he proclaimed. There is no reason for American Troops to be on foreign soil interfering with happenings in other parts of the world.
The narrative, from the very beginning, has been "peace in our time," and if we want Islam to quit attacking us, all we have to do is quit pissing them off by reacting to terrorism with military force.
The way he pulled us out of Iraq, and Obama's funding of the Syrian rebels, led to the rise of ISIS. And, after Obama scoffed at Romney in the last election for declaring that Russia is our greatest geopolitical enemy, Barry has ignored Russia's rise and invasion of Ukraine.
The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) has especially challenged the President's narrative. While Obama has been trying to convince everyone that the War on Terror is over, and the Muslims love us because he's President of the United States, Benghazi erupted, and now the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) is slamming the Middle East in full force.
For Obama, ISIS stands for an "Inconvenient Struggle (in) Iraq (and) Syria."
For Obama, ISIL stands for an "Irritating Strain (in) Iraq's Lap."
The situation in Iraq and Syria, where an Islamic terrorist organization is gaining control of a massive amount of land, has forced President Barack Obama into a corner, forcing him to do something about the problem, while he tries to protect his anti-war narrative, and his "Islam is not the problem" narrative. So, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, according to Obama, is not Islamic (hence, why I think the letter "I" stands for Inconvenient or Irritating - because it can't be "Islamic"), and why he has assured us this is not war, we will not have boots on the ground being used in a combat mission, and it won't last as long as Bush's unlawful war for oil (his words, not mine).
What's worse for Barry Soetoro, is that ISIS has plenty of wealth behind what they are doing due to the control ISIS is gaining over oil. So, a part of Obama's strategy will have to be to protect the oil. . . making the war in Iraq a war over oil - while he tries to tell us it is not about oil.
Ouch.
The funny thing about war is you can't kind of fight a war. That's like being kind of pregnant. If you are going to fight a war, fight it. Defeat the enemy. Don't play defensive political games, or else you will turn it into a fiasco. . . just ask the politicians behind Vietnam who fought the war defensively, careful so as to not upset certain political circles, or communist nations.
It is either a war, or it isn't. There is no such thing as a "sort-of-war." Quit calling it a conflict, quit pin-prick bombing, and stop claiming we are in the war, but yet we are not. Indecisiveness, and unwillingness to do what is needed, emboldens the enemy. ISIS is laughing at Barack Obama, and they are planning their sequel to 9/11. . . because our President is too worried about upsetting some delicate balance if he's too aggressive in taking these sickening, barbaric terrorists out, who, by the way, deserve to be completely wiped out.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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