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Obama allows limited airstrikes on “barbaric” ISIS

Aug 8, 2014 1:41 am By Robert Spencer

Image: U.S. President Obama walks to speak about the Affordable Care Act at the White House in WashingtonHe called the Islamic State “barbaric”? Doesn’t that make him a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe”? In any case, Obama is extremely unlikely to do anything effective here. “As commander in chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into another war in Iraq.” In other words, the caliphate is here to stay — not that any U.S. force could affect lasting change there, anyway — especially nowadays when it would be solely directed toward “respect” for Sharia oppression of women, non-Muslims, gays, etc.

“Obama Allows Limited Airstrikes on ISIS,” New York Times, August 7, 2014:

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday announced he had authorized limited airstrikes against Islamic militants in Iraq, scrambling to avert the fall of the Kurdish capital, Erbil, and returning the United States to a significant battlefield role in Iraq for the first time since the last American soldier left the country at the end of 2011.

Speaking at the White House on Thursday night, Mr. Obama also said that American military aircraft had dropped food and water to tens of thousands of Iraqis trapped on a barren mountain range in northwestern Iraq, having fled the militants, from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, who threaten them with what Mr. Obama called “genocide.”

“Earlier this week, one Iraqi cried that there is no one coming to help,” Mr. Obama said in a somber statement delivered from the State Dining Room. “Well, today America is coming to help.”

The president insisted that these military operations did not amount to a full-scale re-engagement in Iraq. But the relentless advance of the militants, whom he described as “barbaric,” has put them within a 30-minute drive of Erbil, raising an immediate danger for the American diplomats, military advisers and other citizens who are based there.

“As commander in chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into another war in Iraq,” said Mr. Obama, who built his run for the White House in part around his opposition to the war in Iraq….

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  1. Champ says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 1:51 am

    Of course the whole of islam is “barbaric”, but obama will never admit to that …

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 11:44 pm

      Is this the same Obama that asked for $500 million just last month to equip Syrian rebels just after ISIS looted Iraqi banks of $500 million?

      Maybe he should back Assad.

  2. Daniel Triplett says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 1:51 am

    FDR knows how to do air strikes. Not this clown.

    “Limited?” GMAFB.

    The objective is to “break their Will to Fight.” It’s time for the big guns.

    • Davegreybeard says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 2:28 am

      Forget FDR.

      General Curtis Lemay knew how to do air strikes.

      • Daniel Triplett says

        Aug 8, 2014 at 2:50 am

        Yes.

        …and Doolittle.

        Pretty much any US Military Officer of that era puts the modern day political Officer to shame. Those guys knew how to kick ass.

        MacArthur wanted to strike 25 targets in China with Atomic ordnance. That punk-ass Kim Jong Un certainly wouldn’t be screwing with us and the World now, sharing secrets with Iran.

        Truman is overrated IMHO.

      • gungadin says

        Aug 8, 2014 at 10:06 am

        I served until General LeMay in the late 50’s and early 60’s when he ran SAC- (Strategic Air Command) — I have NO idea what the new wussies in DC have renamed it now……LeMay was a NO BS kinda guy and tough as nails….what a sorry state the desk jockeys in DC have made our military….the BS that you can’t return fire if some towel head is shooting at your from some mosque or the like is plain COW FLOP….I’m afraid if I was still in the service today I’d be in the stockade because I would NOT obey that “rule of engagement” Sorta reminds me how the kids of today can’t even fight their own battles in school without being thrown out of the class and the school…….We are indeed raising a world full of wussies !!

  3. ben says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:19 am

    Any where you find Islam you are sure to find barbaric laws.

  4. Lou Bator says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:26 am

    Obamama? Commander in Chief? I shake my head in exasperation every time I am reminded of that.

  5. Pavelina says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:50 am

    More and more this islamic terrorism situation is reminding me of the run-up to WW2. Japan and Germany were gathering strength and taking territory, while the U.S. was unwilling to admit to reality — that we would need to fight them eventually.
    I’d like to see a coalition of forces bomb and strafe the ISIS, 24/7, and hopefully rub them out eventually before they take more territory. Let’s fight them there; don’t wait till they get planes and intercontinental missiles and don’t wait till they get here.

    • paddy says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 4:18 am

      MAKE A STAND FOR GOODNESS SAKE! we all know what power grabbing hungry western demomcracy is BUT this is barbaric

  6. joeb says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 5:35 am

    Yes, Barry is saying “Psst – don’t worry, guys. It will just be a few warning shots. No big deal. But I have to be seen as ‘doing something’. I’m sure you understand.. “

    • John C. Barile says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 9:13 am

      Bingo.

  7. Rob says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 5:38 am

    Can’t quite bring himself to say: ‘This is militant Islam’s attack on non-Muslims’.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 9, 2014 at 6:58 am

      Can’t quite bring himself to say, “This is Jihad”.

  8. duh_swami says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 6:02 am

    What ever happened to, ‘The responsibility to protect’? They bombed Libya didn’t they?

    • John C. Barile says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 9:16 am

      Yes. The responsibility to protect . . . “oppressed Muslims” who strive to advance Islam and tawhid.

  9. Harley says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 6:29 am

    Why is it always the US that gets called in to deal with crises in Middle Eastern countries?

    Surely ISIS is now recognized worldwide as a primitive and barbaric threat to mankind throughout the world, regardless of religion? So why aren’t ALL countries in the world coming together to eradicate this horrific nonsense?

    And why haven’t other muslim countries at least stepped in to deal with this? After all, ISIS are a more immediate threat to peace in their countries.

    We can all propose ‘reasons’ to justify the lack of action, but when it comes down to a simple analysis of survival and the need to fight for peace and freedom, this question remains inexpicable.

    This is all beginning to look very much like the beginning of the end as prophesied in the biblical book of Revelation – i.e. all those who don’t comply with the dark way of life that will be forced upon them will either face death, or conversion to an acceptance of living under the control of those who have taken away your freedom. Coincidence? Prophesy? Or just the common-sense view of somebody who was prepared to forecast a likely potential future based on events already brewing at the time it was written, and without the constraints of political correctness that radical islam uses against all common sense in this modern age?

    Either way, the proof is in the pudding. and it seems to me that we’re starting to eat that pudding.

    Here’s to the end of the world as we know it.
    Thanks Mo, for destroying all that your god has created.

    • Rajivi says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 1:20 pm

      Why is it always the US that gets called in to deal with crises in Middle Eastern countries?

      Because to safeguard its OIL interest..!

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Aug 9, 2014 at 7:00 am

        And nobody *else* in the world buys ME oil…??? Really???

  10. rev g says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 6:57 am

    So, when Christians were being slaughtered, forced to convert, whole towns made to flee for their lives, nothing is done. But now, a “show of force”….but why? Ah yes, much easier than confronting the friendly fire that killed a 2-star general in that other theater.

    • John C. Barile says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 9:31 am

      Yes, rev, there sure are a lot o’ theaters of conflict these days–AfPak, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, North Caucasus, Yemen, Somalia, Mindanao, S. Thailand, Xinjiang and Central Asia, Central African Republic, Mali, N. Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan’s Juba Mts., Gaza, Sinai, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Ethiopia on occasion–it’s a good thing that we have President B. H. Obama at the helm to steer us on a steady course of peace in the world.

  11. Joe says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 6:59 am

    Limited airstrike is not enough.

  12. duh_swami says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 7:11 am

    So Rasool drops food…How many times is he willing to do that?
    What is stopping ISIS from storming the MT and killing everyone just to spite Rasool? If you are going to protect people, protect them. If you are not willing to do that, go to your room in shame.

    • eib says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 7:52 am

      Yes.
      These measures are half-measures, and they are no way to approach genocide.

    • Rezali Mehil says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 10:28 am

      All,

      What is the betting that the food gets dropped in the wrong place..and into the hands of the IS.

      Make no mistake …Obama is a sunni …and YOU voted him in twice….which tells me that most people in the US are quite happy to bring Sunni Islam policy into America in place of the 2nd amendment.

      Oh well …Alllah T’Allah (SWT) works in strange ways…get to the strongest nation 1st and all that…

      More Later …

      Rezali

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Aug 8, 2014 at 2:42 pm

        Rezali, the second amendment concerns the right to keep and bear arms. Did you actually mean to refer to the first amendment concerning the ban on establishing a state religion? But you are right either way, I suppose. And why stop at the those amendments? The Sunnis would like to do away with the entire Bill of Rights and the complete U.S. Constitution. Surely you don’t think the Shiites would be any different than the Sunnis in that regard though? Come on now. You know, Rezali, I get a kick out of what you say sometimes ……… and despite what you say, I still believe you will get it one of these days. If you keep the lines of communication open along with an open mind, there will always be hope for you. At least I pray so.

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 8, 2014 at 11:52 pm

        Be honest

        The Shia are not truly Muslim they are just shackled dogs guarding Islam’s slave chain while hiding behind a passive aggressive face-saving fictitious (we are different but all the same) claim .

  13. NDB says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 7:27 am

    Well since the root of the word was first used to describe Persians (among others)… and then there were those pesky Barbary Pirates, King Barry may have made the right choice of words for the first time in his life.

    This is all in addition to smoke and mirrors going in to the mid-terms and will do nothing but inflame the Islamist to hunt down more non-Muslims until they run out… then they will go back to killing each other.

  14. eib says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 7:51 am

    ISIS is not barbaric.
    It is Islamic.
    Muslim to the core.

  15. islamforbids.com says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 8:20 am

    He is in a pickle as his loyalty is with ISIS and they are forcing his hand .He is going to end up getting his head handed to himself as these pious muslims like islam out in the open .

    • BC says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 9:00 am

      I think you are wrong. ISIS have declared they are coming fo him and want to put the jihad flag on the White House. Whatever else he may be BO is not stupid, he gets the message

      • Always On Watch says

        Aug 8, 2014 at 9:25 am

        BC,
        ISIS have declared they are coming fo him and want to put the jihad flag on the White House. Whatever else he may be BO is not stupid, he gets the message.

        A possibility, which I considered earlier.

        However, in my view, Obama thinks that he is well protected — invincible and untouchable.

        I do have some concern that ISIS (ISIL) may launch attacks here in the United States in retaliation for Obama’s recent shots across the bow of these Islamomaniacs. Within our national borders right now, we have various ilks of Islamic supremacists going about fulfilling their agendas.

  16. Vostro says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 8:33 am

    Aren’t these people he wants to bomb basically the same people he is aiding in Syria?

    • Always On Watch says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 8:58 am

      Vostro,
      I think so.

    • eib says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 9:53 am

      Yes.

  17. Always On Watch says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 8:52 am

    Too little, too late.

    ISIS capitalized and strengthened because of Obama’s habitual dithering.

    • John C. Barile says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 9:35 am

      Yes.

  18. Always On Watch says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 8:56 am

    Did Obama become motivated because of the plight of the Yazidis and, at the same time, show no concern for the plight of Christians in Iraq?

    Surely looks that way to me!

  19. BC says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 8:58 am

    Use the drones. Any military vehicle showing the black flag should be obliterated.

    • BC says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 9:02 am

      Forgot to add. Any group of soldiers showing the Black flag same thing.

  20. Always On Watch says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 9:03 am

    About the religion of the Yazidi (from Wikipedia: The principal feature of their worship, however, is Satan under the name of Muluk-Taus. However, it is not the Christian Satan, nor the devil in any form; their Muluk-Taus is the hundred- or thousand-eyed cosmic wisdom, pictured as a bird (the peacock).

    More information at Wikipedia.

  21. Myxlplik says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 10:24 am

    Muslims while a very small % in the west will carry out Kenya style attacks on western countries in response.

    I like saving 30,000 people from extermination by Islam, but we are getting in over our heads if we still cant even name who and what we are rescuing them from.

    We are at war with “barbarians”, isn’t going to cut it.

  22. RonaldB says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 10:53 am

    Ordinarily, I would say the US has no business getting involved in internal affairs in Iraq or anywhere else in the region. It’s easy to say “bomb them back into the stone age”, but the reality is different. You end up with “boots on the ground”. You also end up evacuating the country, with tens of thousands of Muslims who were allied with you, and who will get slaughtered by other Muslims unless you let them into the US. Once they come to the US, their children become Islamist, and they are indistinguishable from the people they were fleeing from.

    Now, in this case, US air support of the Kurdish region, which has its own government, might not be a bad thing. ISIS should be stopped if possible, but the best defense is still impermeable borders, where we keep Muslims out, and allow them their own dysfunctional countries.

    However, one cannot forget that it is US meddling that created the Islamic regimes in Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. In all these cases, the US supported the opponents of the undemocratic, but non-Islamic governments, and got Islamic fiefdoms. The US tried to get an Islamist government in Egypt, but the Egyptians successfully pushed back.

    The leftists used to accuse the US of being an imperialist regime. Unfortunately, the US is affiliated with evil governments, but it seems to be more through unbelievable stupidity than through any benefits that may come to the US.

  23. Rajivi says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    If it were not the US oil companies operating at Erbil, I think Obama would not have cared for the Kurds or for Yazidis and would not have cared for air strike.

  24. Angemon says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    I wonder if BO will let the terrorists know where the drones will strike beforehand?

  25. ConanKong says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    I am no fan of Obama, but I can’t oppose this. I am long past my gung ho days, but The Islamic State needs to be stopped NOW. If the suceed in Iraq and Syria, others may flock to their banner, not necessarily because of deep religious devotion, but because of self-preservation and a desire to be on what they perceive to be the winning side. They could be knocking on our doors all too soon, nbot because of armed conquest, but because of joinerism. Does Europe have the mettle to resist another invasion? Yes, war is Hell, but it’s not the lowest level of Hell.

    • rev g says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 2:24 pm

      But he was for these guys before he was against them, he is acting unilaterally without Congressional approval, and it is all just a façade anyways.,

  26. manuel-rafael says

    Aug 9, 2014 at 7:12 pm

    The current concern for Iraq from this Qatari/Obama Emirate has a curious way to extend a cosmetic fantasy of “humanitarian concern” it is a fact the ISIS Terror Coalition; IS what was sold as the “moderate rebels” armed, funded and logistically supported by the so-called Obama Administration and the full support of the “Rainbow Coalition” (There was one such rainbow it was the N.S.D.A.P. in 1930’s elections) Qatar, Turkey and Pakistan’s ISI,(Pakistani Intelligence and the Smuggling Logistics Cell) it is a brilliant politically correct, perception that the issue is saving Iraq, this may be true, question is whose side is the Obama Air Support is for? Throughout the Christian Genocides not a word was heard from this total deceitful policy shifting Enemy Combatant in charge of the most powerful military on earth, it is and has been the “Stealth Jihad” strategy of the Moslem Brotherhood’s total control of the Caliphate’s projected goals for defeat of the Secular Moslems the Judeo-Christians and it is all an Obama Cosmetic Act; there is no way that ISIS as the Moderates John McCain and the majority of the cretins from
    “both sides” a misnomer there has been a Single Party United States since 2010, But I digress, Obama was perfectly happy to see Iraq descend into an Anarchic State, until ISIS was “put on hold” by the Kurdish military’s proficiency and their reaction to Fascist Islamiism, the United States will be written of in a comparative to the Third Reich, what will the politically correct way to present the deceit once it is exposed for what it is?

  27. Uncle Vladdi says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 12:14 am

    Re: ” In any case, Obama is extremely unlikely to do anything effective here.”

    YEP! Good prediciton, O Prophet Robert LOL!

    Caliph Ohamad did indeed use expensive American warplanes to target a whole TWO artillery pieces ISIS had set up on a hill.

    “That’ll teach ’em!” Obama crowed to the servile and supine presstitues!

    ;-(

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