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To: jlallen who wrote (805252)	9/4/2014 3:10:33 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1580037

Enough about the libtards who continue to defend the indefensible. I'm still astounded by Obama's gaffe. Even now, I can't believe he would just come out and say that he doesn't have a strategy. Nor can I believe that he continues to wish for it to all go away. Here's what I'd like to believe. I'd like to believe that Obama recognizes the complexity of the situation involved. I'd like to believe that he knows about the shifting alliances in the ISIS region and how ISIS' enemies also happen to be our enemies. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" can't really apply here, unfortunately. I'd like to believe that his reluctance to use force is born out of wisdom and experience. We've spent way too much time, money, and lives pursuing a neocon dream of a democratized Middle East. I'd like to believe that Obama is truly forming an international coalition to deal with the ISIS crisis, and that when this urgent matter is dealt with, the international community can clean up the mess and return to some semblance of "stability" in the region. Or, barring all of the above, I'd like to believe that Obama is eventually going to commit America to a policy of isolationism. Obama clearly prefers focusing on his domestic agenda, so any foreign policy distractions can't be a good thing to him. Hence he would need to filter them out by declaring that America will not further entangle itself in foreign conflicts, and that the rest of the world would need to start taking responsibility for their own defense. But everything that I have seen coming out of the administration has convinced me that they don't know WTF they're doing. At all. And yes, I may be a "right-winger" that Ted despises so much, but I know myself, and I value intelligence and competency over partisan politics. Hence to see Obama act the way he's acting is a huge turn-off to me. And this man was supposed to be a "revolutionary figure in politics"? What does that say about us as a nation? Are we going to continue tolerating mediocrity and incompetence just to satisfy our own desires? Tenchusatsu