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Obama: “We don’t have a strategy yet” on the Islamic State

Aug 28, 2014 8:01 pm By Robert Spencer

obama-shhh1A rare moment of candor. Not only does he not yet have a strategy; he doesn’t yet have the courage to call the threat what it really is, or to acknowledge that the actions of the Islamic State have deep roots in Islamic theology and law. There is no way that we can defeat an enemy we do not understand, and Obama refuses to understand this one.

“Obama: ‘We Don’t Have A Strategy Yet’ On ISIS,” by Brett LoGiurato, Business Insider, August 28, 2014:

U.S. President Barack Obama addressed a pair of worsening world crises Thursday afternoon, blaming Russia for escalating violence in eastern regions of Ukraine and admitting he doesn’t yet have a strategy to confront the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (also ISIS or ISIL).

His statement from the White House came amid a day of significant escalation in the crisis in Ukraine, as Ukraine’s president accused Russia of sending troops across the border to fight with pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s southeastern regions. Obama said it was clear the ongoing violence had been “encouraged” by Russia, who he said trained and armed separatists in the violence-stricken regions.

“Russia is responsible for the violence in eastern Ukraine,” Obama said. “This ongoing Russian incursion into Ukraine will only bring more costs and consequences for Russia.”

Obama is scheduled to meet Thursday evening with members of his National Security Council, as well as Vice President Joe Biden, on a strategy to further confront the extremist group ISIS in Iraq and Syria. A White House official said no new decisions are expected on how to proceed Thursday.

“I don’t want to put the cart before the horse,” Obama said, when asked about the next steps in confronting the group.

“We don’t have a strategy yet,” he said….

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  1. David, Thailand says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 8:14 pm

    Obama’s strategy is working just fine, and if truth is still worth anything he should go down in history as the man who did most for Islam, second only to Mohamed.

    And let’s not forget, he still has more than two years of executive privilege to abuse.

    • Pathfinder0100 says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 3:42 pm

      So true David!!!

    • Elian Gonzalez says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 6:09 pm

      You forgot to stamp your little foot.

    • hellen says

      Aug 30, 2014 at 12:22 am

      I agree, “Obama’s strategy is working just fine”
      AFTER ALL, WE ALL BORN MUSLIMS!!! ALL WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS RETURN TO ISLAM. HAHAHAH!!!
      So… until that his strategy must be: LYING/TAQIYYA.

      Here are the details from the koran and islamic books:

      It is permissible for a Muslim to lie, especially to non-Muslims, to
      safeguard himself personally or to protect Islam.
      • “Let not the believers take the disbelievers as friends instead of the believers, and
      whoever does that, will never be helped by Allah in any way, unless you indeed
      fear a danger from them. And Allah warns you against Himself, and to Allah is
      the final return.” (Q 3:28)
      • “‘Unless you indeed fear a danger from them’ meaning, except those believers who
      in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers. In this case,
      such believers are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but
      never inwardly.…‘We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse
      them.’” (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol 2, 141)
      • “Mohammed said, ‘War is deceit.’” (Bukhari vol.4:267 and 269)
      • “He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or
      saying good things, is not a liar.” (Bukhari vol.3:857 p.533)

  2. Elton Braun says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    I can appreciate his predicament. Not a good time to be a muslim and president of the U.S.A.

    • hellen says

      Aug 30, 2014 at 12:01 am

      NO good time (and never will be) for the US when the president is muslim…

  3. Angemon says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    I’m going to play devil’s advocate: maybe Obama has a strategy but the time it would take to explain his brilliant plant to us lowly mouth-breathing peons would be time he wouldn’t be playing golf. Therefore, it’s simpler and quicker if he just says he doesn’t have a strategy and implement his plan later on. It’s not like he’ll ever be pressured to explain anything, that would be racist.

  4. Wellington says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    Bottom line: Never in all of American history, since the Constitution was implemented in 1789, has America had anything like Obama for a President. The man is completely in over his head. He is clueless in ways that even makes Jimmy Carter look like a wise man, not an easy thing to do to be sure.

    It matters little, in the final analysis, whether Obama is a complicit fool or just an ignorant fool. The adjective here should not be emphasized. Rather, the noun (the same in each case of course) should be since the effect is essentially the same.

    And thanks to all you rubes out there in America who voted for this doofus for President, especially those of you who did so twice. A greater collection of fools in as large of numbers would be hard to locate anywhere in all of the pages of history. Thanks for nothing, morons.

    • Champ says

      Aug 28, 2014 at 8:55 pm

      Sadly, this is quite true, Wellington. I agree with your comment, word 4 word. And I dare say that obama will go down in history as the worst U.S. president to date.

      • el-cid says

        Aug 29, 2014 at 9:27 am

        Yes, very true.

        He speaks as if he was an onlooker or a journalist, not a leader or even a player.

        There is no leadership today in the USA.

    • warpmine says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 9:03 am

      They all wanted a piece of the pie. Unfortunately, a piece may be all that’s left.

    • Elian Gonzalez says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 6:11 pm

      I cannot wait for the Latino president, so you can say the exact same crap over again. And then insist it’s not about race.

      In the meantime, maybe *you* should run for president, seeing as you seem to know everything and would spell out every strategy so that it may be used by the country’s enemies.

  5. jihad3tracker says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 8:50 pm

    For those of you here on JW who have not seen this video of what Obama has said about Islam — IN HIS OWN WORDS — please watch it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE9mZCRX2mg
    ———-

    Then decide if — as Eliminator writes — the President is “a closet Muslim” — OR — “a Muslim enabler and sympathizer”. Actually, that is a distinction without a difference.

    We have seen clearly from Obama’s obvious lies about Islam after the Foley beheading that the Prez has no place to run away from his youthful fantasy about the “Religion of Peace”.

    That is why he played golf when he ought to have been in the White House with core national security advisors, ramping up with all available assets a rapid counterforce.

    Eventually Obama’s mental implosion will be chronicled — if the U.S. survives his failure . . . Personally? I am getting ready for 9 / 11 Chapter 2.

    • SallyA says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 3:05 am

      @jihad3tracker – Benghazi was 9/11/12; you’re right, we may be due for another 9/11/14 in the U.S. Or maybe this Labor Day, 9/1. Saw online that the upraised index fingers of ISIS guys in photos symbolize tawhid. It might also indicate the 1 of 9/1 as a planned terror date the US-haters are salivating over.

      Americans might want to rethink being anyplace like malls, theaters, convention centers or stadiums either 9/1 or 9/11 this year.

      Also to above, Benedict Obama is a fool, yes. A fool by design, as if he knows playing the fool and inaction will lead to greater Muslim power in the US and in the world. He operates not like a president of this country but like he’s selling us out to global Islam, which most people say doesn’t exist. I’ve recently read online info, as I’m trying to learn more, about salafism. The terrorism is laid out in their “holy” scriptures, salafism or not. A dark murderous muddle: Islam. Our western leaders are lying through their teeth about it.

      Thank goodness for RS and other blogs that cover the extent of the news.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Aug 29, 2014 at 5:26 am

        Thank you for reminding me about using caution to avoid certain public places on Labor Day, SallyA.

        • SallyA says

          Aug 29, 2014 at 10:43 pm

          @ jihad3tracker – Thanks! Since then I’ve seen online chatter (about weekend festivals held on fairgrounds, etc., in parts of the US on the weekend after Labor Day) indicating also Sun., 9-7, as a risk. At some point despite taking reasonable precautions, I’ll pray and trust Providence.

          @ Elian Gonzalez – Don’t know what’s in the heart of others, but I don’t hate President Obama. However he’s golfing instead of protecting this country presidentially. (Bush-Cheney made some mistakes about Islamic terrorism but at least Pres. Bush stopped golfing when feedback indicated that Americans found the golfing disrespectful of their unresolved political concerns. Pres. Obama flaunts his disregard of our concerns and keeps golfing as if he is a dictator.) Pres. Obama’s obvious disregard for the safety and security of the majority of Americans is appalling and unprecedented. He seems aligned lately with the politics of his literal brother, Malik Obama, as well as with the Muslim Brotherhood representatives he’s incorporated to his advisory inner circle. It is unconscionable for President Obama to disregard what any of us can find out through google about jihadists as proven by current Islamic terrorism in ME as well as Islamic terrorism (and foiled plots) on US soil before and after 9/11. For example, he ignores basic information and pretends Islam does not spawn terrorism when worldwide most murderous terrorists are Muslims. He could but apparently does not read articles like these (as he does not act reasonably to protect the majority of Americans): http://www.blindeagle.info/2014/07/23/foreign-fighters-and-the-religious-foundation-of-jihad/; http://www.blindeagle.info/2014/08/03/the-secret-jihad-al-qaedas-invisible-non-combatant-army/; http://www.blindeagle.info/2014/07/17/the-elements-of-jihadi-ideology-a-guide-for-counter-terrorism-officers/; http://www.blindeagle.info/2014/07/11/islamist-ideology-the-taboo-subject/.

    • chrisleo says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 3:36 am

      Wow, he really has been infected, he sounds like an Imam.

    • Always On Watch says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 5:54 am

      Good video.

  6. jewdog says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    Obama was forced to act in Iraq against ISIS when things were on the brink of a humanitarian disaster. When it comes to the jihad, he is a reluctant warrior.
    Overall, I think Obama tends to idealize Islam and refuses to blame its ideology for the terrible things done by Muslims. He is probably influenced by idyllic memories of his childhood in Indonesia and associates Islam with that time. His sympathetic attitudes make him especially unqualified to lead when it comes to ISIS and other Islamic-related challenges that require hard-nosed responses.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Aug 28, 2014 at 8:56 pm

      Hello jewdog —

      “Idyllic memories” — another way of putting what I said in a response to Eliminator.

  7. richard sherman says

    Aug 28, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    Obama reveres the sociopath Muhammad who personally decapitated 900 unarmed Jews., kidnapped and sexually enslaved 1000 Jewish girls and women…and had sex with a nine year old. Non Muslims..non liberals…and non Obama’s understand this is the conduct of a sociopathic piece of you know what..

    • Elian Gonzalez says

      Aug 29, 2014 at 6:14 pm

      You can hate the president all you want, and you clearly do. But it’s getting to the constant lying that doesn’t do anything at all. Like with this site in general: lots of pissing and moaning that the president doesn’t do what you demand. Fine. But why do you have to lie? Maybe you can’t help yourself. Maybe you’re that ugly on the inside. Who knows. Except you can’t get make it through a day without some blood-curdling nonsense, possibly to make up for the fact that there isn’t much you can point to as affecting your life personally as you want to believe.

  8. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 12:27 am

    I think there is a strategy concerning the Islamic State and it’s clear. It’s to do as little as possible over the next 28 months or so, hope for the best and let the next President worry about it.

  9. livingengine says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 2:44 am

    Enter Iran.

  10. Godfrey Kemal says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 3:21 am

    Well at least he’s honest . . . Situation is not optimistic.

    Place your bets: how long before ISIL moves into Saudi Arabia? Lebanon (already)? Jordan?

    ISIL is a virus and spreading like a plague – infecting Muslims world-wide.

    Situation is not optimistic. Probably will end up with an Islamist Super State and then we all get to enjoy WW III. Heaven help us.

  11. Always On Watch says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 5:49 am

    This man is going to get us all killed!

    • hellen says

      Aug 30, 2014 at 12:24 am

      Oh, It took a long time to you to realize it.

  12. Always On Watch says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 5:53 am

    Just imagine, if I has a teacher were to step in front of the classroom next Tuesday after having had the summer break and stated: “I don’t have a lesson plan yet.”

    I would be fired — and rightly so.

  13. Rajivi says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 8:03 am

    It is Obama who watered the ISIS plant and fertilized it, when both, he and his friend in UK , supported the rebels in Syria, to bring down the Assad regime. Now the same has grown into a big tree and its roots have began to destroy the world… Just to shut the mouth of his detractors, he might have ordered for some bombing of ISIS in Iraq and lost in his vacation playing Golf…He does not care if thousands of Yazidis or hundreds of Syrian / Iraqi soldiers are murdered in cold blood.

    • hellen says

      Aug 30, 2014 at 12:28 am

      But can’t you see !? That WAS and IS his aim.

  14. luchadora41 says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 9:15 am

    I believe Obama does have a strategy. He presided over ousting Mubarak and Gaddafi with the help of the Muslim Brotherhood, and he wanted to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, but the American people made too much noise and he wasn’t able to do it with our military. We know that Obama has been funding and arming ISIS, known by another name in Benghazi, and they’ve grown into an army, using our weapons. Has Obama given up on wanting Assad gone? Nope. I believe he’s using ISIS to overthrow him, and the “limited airstrikes” mean nothing. Obama has shown us time and again that if he can’t get his way initially, he’ll use other means to do it. Take amnesty, for example. Congress said no, so what did he do? He flooded the borders with illegals. Same with ISIS. He’s flooding Syria’s borders with jihadis our government has created because Assad isn’t going along with the program. And as brutal as Assad is, I’d rather see him stay in power than what will come after him. At least he knew how to keep his jihadis in check.

  15. Jerry says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 3:26 pm

    The Obamination’s strategy is to invite them for his next Iftar Dinner, and tell us that deep inside they are peace loving Islamic Humanists and Human Rights Activists.

  16. Robert Wagner says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 4:05 pm

    Hasn’t Obama ever heard of a Fuel Air Bomb? That would be a good strategy.

  17. Elian Gonzalez says

    Aug 29, 2014 at 6:20 pm

    Haven’t been back to Jihad Watch in some time, and looking at the stupendously stupid and ignorant comments, on display for ALL to see, I remember why: it’s tiresome.

    It’s tiresome to see such mind-numbing dumbness. It’s tiresome to see the same ugly lies about the president by people who just hate his guts. You can all hate him all he wants, but you can’t seem to understand that disliking him has nothing to do with lying about him (“he’s a Muslim, he’s working with the Muslim Brotherhood!”) These are demonstrably false, but you’re all like Bigfoot aficionados: you don’t seem to see that the fraud and hoaxes are irreparably damaging to legitimate criticism of the president. But instead, you the apex of your intelligence is a spittle-filled, “No, *you* shut up!”

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