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2014-09-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hagel: US military, not Obama, to decide on Syria airstrikes

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 If Hagel keeps that sh!t up, he's gonna be in the market for a creeper; the better to fit under the Bambi-bus.
How DARE he contradict the Waffler-in-Chief????

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-09-20 00:51|| 2014-09-20 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 isn't insubordination directed and the CinC treason?

Chucky you've been a bad monkey.

Right after I finish this round it's under the bus with you.

Posted by AlanC 2014-09-20 08:03|| 2014-09-20 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 If I was dealing in Byzantine politics, I'd take the info about everyone's (Congress, the Prez, the media, el al) confidence levels with the American people, the personality profile of Dear Leader (how he reacts, what's going on in his mind), the media generated fear of ISIL, and look at the opportunity to lay some real nice political theater just before the election that would undermine those thinking they were about to slide past the goal line in obtaining/retaining power. One of those black swan events. The kind that shuts the upper brain off and the lower brain group auto selects for security.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-20 08:05|| 2014-09-20 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Hagel's lining up to be the 'at fault' guy when the shooting actually kills somebody. As opposed to foreign policy based on John Lennon songs.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-09-20 09:12|| 2014-09-20 09:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Hagel said on Thursday that the recent Wall Street Journal reports that Obama will personally sign off on every airstrike inside Syria were false.

"Obama's no LBJ."

I'd go with he's "no President."

Posted by Pappy 2014-09-20 11:01|| 2014-09-20 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Guys, not to make light of ISIL, but I am getting this very uneasy feeling that the focus upon ISIL and all of the "media generated outrage" is an orchestrated "wag the dog" exercise.

What the heck is going on in plain sight they want to divert our attention from???

We need to look around, ISIL may be a red herring.

ISIL may not be anything but a couple of videos and an incompetent Iraqi Army...30,000 fighters? Really, we can kill that many in a week with our stuff so what is the "sturm und drang" all about?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-09-20 12:15|| 2014-09-20 12:15|| Front Page Top

#7 The kind that shuts the upper brain off and the lower brain group auto selects for security.

Already happened. Atlantic Magazine just had an article about the return of the Security Moms who are going to give this election to the Republicans... and possibly the next one, too, if ISIS and the southern border aren't fixed.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-20 13:33|| 2014-09-20 13:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Hope the Atlantic Mag is correct. I don't think Obama will do anything about immigration before the 2014 mid-terms. He and the Donks think about immigration reform as amnesty. That would be toxic. The Security Moms are not going to like amnesty. He probably won't do much about ISIS before the elections either--maybe not much afterwards either. He doesn't want offend a large part of his anti-war base. So far, he hasn't done much damage to ISIS--mostly pinpricks Security moms are probably are probably not going to like this dithering, desultory approach to ISIS. Atlantic Mag might be right. However, Bob Beckel (The Five) keeps making noises about some October surprise by the Donks, although he is reluctant to say what he thinks it is.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-20 17:59|| 2014-09-20 17:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Judge for yourself:

'Security Moms' Are Backand That's Bad News for Democrats

In a time of national anxiety, women voters are again turning to Republicans to protect the country.

by PETER BEINART SEP 17 2014

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-20 18:08|| 2014-09-20 18:08|| Front Page Top

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