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| 2016-09-20 |
| Some analysts believe that president Obama's unfocused and seemingly half-hearted efforts have created a counterterror resistant strain of Jihadists in the same way that the desultory use of antibiotics created superbugs. They predict that eventually even the NSA will "go deaf" against the Jihadists as their trade craft improves. Indeed Ahmad Khan Rahami, the Chelsea New York bomber "traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan several times without detection by the U.S. government, officials told The Daily Beast." In consequence the internal Western Jihadi threat may become chronic. It will never be solved. Not at least for decades. Nonsense. No Muslims access, no terrorism. ...Internationally the situation is no different. None of the wars, not even Afghanistan or Iraq, are ending. In fact conflict is spreading by the day. The ceasefire which John Kerry hoped would start the peace process in the Levant collapsed in tragic farce, with an errant American airstrike annihilating a Syrian Army position while a Russian airstrike decimated a UN relief column bound for Aleppo. It's so embarrassing the White House admitted it was skeptical of its own plan from the first. ...But who cares? As John Kerry begins his quest for a new ceasefire, president Barack Obama is devoting his remaining months in office to admitting more refugees into the West. The Atlantic's Priscilla Alvarez writes, "on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will host a summit on the refugee crisis on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting. His administration reportedly plans to increase the number of refugees the United States will let in to 110,000 in fiscal year 2017, and he is expected to call on other world leaders to take in more refugees themselves." Taking in more refugees won't solve anything either internationally or in the West itself. But it's virtuous and signals it. One reason for the "Forever War" is because winning has become optional. Unlike WW2 when Roosevelt and Truman were under pressure to win the war and bring the boys home, Obama's America can sustainably fight major conflicts without putting masses of voters under arms. Whenever things get dicey, the administration can just send a B-1 over to restore the balance so Kerry can go back to the nth doomed ceasefire. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Wretchard's three conjectures. I read it long ago when it was linked here. I've never forgotten it. Those is power never read it once, and wouldn't be inclined to believe it even if they had. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-09-20 18:07 |
| #5 Obama has let more HV detainees go free than have been captured on the battlefield. He currently has simultaneous active military hotspots in more countries then his predecessor. With no clear strategy, he continues to send more and more military "advisors" back to a country which he declared he ended combat. And the reactionary peaceniks primary concern is that the goverment pays to have Bradley Manning's pecker surgically removed. Hey...Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize before he even moved into the WH. Now you know why they Smart Power. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2016-09-20 12:27 |
| #4 Some analysts believe Most citizens believe... Tough to juggle hot potatoes when your back is turned. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-09-20 10:32 |
| #3 "going full SPQR on some miserable little pile of sand" Wretchard's three conjectures. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-09-20 05:43 |
| #2 going full SPQR on some miserable little pile of sand It's not Muslims in ME who carry out terror attacks in USA & EU, Kozlowski. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-20 04:55 |
| #1 Nonsense. No Muslims access, no terrorism. ...Sadly, our feckless attitude towards these monsters has left us at a point where our options are rapidly dwindling down to just two: surrender (effectively where we're at today; with terrorism becoming the 'new normal') or going full SPQR on some miserable little pile of sand. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2016-09-20 04:50 |