How can he say this after sending Guantanamo detainees back to Afghanistan, and while the Taliban continue to operate with relative impunity? He can say it because he is Obama: he knows that no matter what he says, the mainstream media will cover for him.
“Obama: Afghanistan ‘Not Going to Be a Source of Terrorist Attacks Again,’” by Joel Gehrke, National Review, December 26, 2014:
President Obama promised that Afghanistan is “not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again” during a Christmas meeting with service members, an echo of the pledge he made regarding Iraq before U.S. troops withdrew and the Islamic State took over major cities in the country….
Here are Obama’s remarks, as transcribed in the pool report:
Because of the extraordinary service of the men and women in the Armed Forces, Afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country. We are safer. It’s not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again. And we still have some very difficult missions around the world, including in Iraq. We still have folks in Afghanistan helping the Afghan security forces. We have people helping to deal with Ebola in Africa and obviously we have folks stationed all around the world. But the world is better, it’s safer, it’s more peaceful, It’s more prosperous and our homeland is protected because of you and the sacrifices each and every day. So on a day when we celebrate the Prince of Peace and many of us count or blessings one of the greatest blessings we have is the extraordinary dedication and sacrifices you all make. We could not be more thankful. I know I speak for everyone in the entire country when I say, we salute you.
cs says
OBAMA, DRUGS ARE BAD MY FRIEND, STOP SMOKING TOO MUCH POT NOW! PLEASE, BE RESPONSIBLE MATE.
mortimer says
Same first reaction! Too much Christmas cheer!
That’s the queerest thing for anyone to say! Afghanistan is one of the most unstable, tribal places in the world. It’s anyone’s guess what the Pak army does to the Taliban. They have been unreliable allies.
Myxlplik says
Perhaps a second Nobel Peace Prize in the making?
cs says
hahaha, probably.
interesting video this one, check it out:
quotha raven says
CS – The video you link to is engaging and very creepy. Interesting, too, is the company this video keeps; At the end of it, YouTube has a bunch of African videos that seem to be related to the one you post. I’ll have to try to look at one or two of them later. Who produced this video? Happy New Year! qr
duh_swami says
He’s simply lying again…and again… and again…and again…and…..
Holy Prophet APF says
Yes, it is true that Prez Barack is a stone cold liar. There can be no argument about that. But his statement on Aghan being neutered and not able to repeat what it did for the 9/11 mass murder may be based on his inside knowledge of classified stuff. After all, wouldn’t it make more sense to train and arm the next big attack from one of the new mujahidin bases in Latin America? And what about that big training base in Pennsylvania?
duh_swami says
I don’t think he shows up for the meetings about classified stuff.
quotha raven says
LOL, touche and exactly right, swami! So, one wonders, what can he be thinking? Happy New Year – qr
Huck Folder says
Maybe for the latest top secret golf club?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQdc8RRWQLOzIFx-OIlGHXWWZA0eTIjSBqFr6pQNRpPCwIjrE3zQ
Lesley says
…and all Americans will be issued their own unicorn, and personal rainbow slide, and we will all live happily ever after…
Arthur says
You should run for office!
moses says
This guy has to be the worst president in US history.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Other candidates:
Woodrow Wilson – sold the concept that the Constitution is a “living” document based on the fact that the Founders couldn’t possibly have anticipated everything in the future (somehow forgetting the amendment clause).
FDR – cashed in on Wilson’s sales job, and laid the groundwork for the central gubmint’s ascendancy over economic freedom, especially with the fake Social Security Trust Fund.
LBJ – brought FDR’s vision to realization, with the gubmint going into several key businesses as a health insurer, housing agency, education administrator, and more.
Prez Jimmy – enough said, this guy was ineffective even pursuing his highbrow globo-socialist ideals.
Angemon says
Alicia says
One word.
Allahbama
Arthur Brede says
ObamaNation – A whole new definition of ‘yellow’ – a couple of million armed citizens yet to open fire. C’m y’all – the target’s easy enough (not the president, you fools!)
William says
Of course, there is no question that Libya -– and the world –- would be better off with Qaddafi out of power.
Remarks by Obama in Address to the Nation on Libya
National Defense University
Washington, D.C.
March 28, 2011
“The United States would leave behind “a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.”
From a speech Obama gave at Fort Bragg on December 14, 2011,
Libyan Jihad says
Yes Libya is a democratic stable self-reliant country with no problems whatsoever, please tell your embassies to come back to us, we love throwing rocks(sometimes bullets!) at them.
duh_swami says
No problems whatsoever? You mean everything is beautiful?
You should not advertise that, because every Mahoundian on the planet will want to immigrate to Libya where life is beautiful all the time….Totally ruining the beauty.
Darren says
The Taliban will retake Afghanistan once we leave, that’s a given. Just imagine if the Taliban makes some kind of formal alliance with the Islamic State and they start cooperating with each other. Once the Taliban retake the country they can then finance their jihadist fantasies by selling heroin to infidels. Not a pretty picture at all.
William says
In order to believe that Afghanistan is not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again, one may have to ask for a precise definition of the words ‘source’ and ‘terrorist.’ For when the attacks resume, we will be confronted with the expected equivocation, dodging, and qualifications.
Remember Obamacare: You can keep your plan and your doctor, period; unless your current plan is in conflict with some part of the 100,000 pages Obamacare law.
katarzyna says
„Incidents in recent days illustrate how Afghan puppet regime forces will struggle with reduced Western support, particularly from the air.
When Taliban attacked a foreign guest house in central Kabul last Thursday, Afghan commandos killed the attackers, but international helicopters and Special Forces helped in the mop-up operation that lasted hours.
Taliban fighters also entered Camp Bastion, a large base in the southern Helmand province handed over to Afghan troops a month ago by the withdrawing U.S. and British forces. It took Afghan soldiers three days to regain control.
After 13 years of NATO struggle for their puppet installed mafia style government the puppet Afghan government is seen as rapacious, abusive, and exclusionary by the common Afghans. Corruption is still rampant at all levels of the state apparatus, including in the government which has suffered a legitimacy crisis after allegations of widespread fraud during the fake 2009 elections and the fake 2013 elections.
The analysts currently monitoring Afghanistan indicates that the extensive casualties and logistical problems suffered by Afghan troops have proved that they are very weak are not resilient in tactical fighting against the Taliban. The puppet Afghan forces remain deeply troubled as they continue to be afflicted by drug abuse, illiteracy, desertions and combat-related incapacities.
NATO has failed in Afghanistan pretending to have succeeded but that’s just camouflage to disguise what is in fact an embarrassing if predictable defeat.”
http://www.shahamat-english.com/index.php/articles/51313-nato%E2%80%99s-end-in-afghanistan-and-the-achievements „Incidents in recent days illustrate how Afghan puppet regime forces will struggle with reduced Western support, particularly from the air.
When Taliban attacked a foreign guest house in central Kabul last Thursday, Afghan commandos killed the attackers, but international helicopters and Special Forces helped in the mop-up operation that lasted hours.
Taliban fighters also entered Camp Bastion, a large base in the southern Helmand province handed over to Afghan troops a month ago by the withdrawing U.S. and British forces. It took Afghan soldiers three days to regain control.
After 13 years of NATO struggle for their puppet installed mafia style government the puppet Afghan government is seen as rapacious, abusive, and exclusionary by the common Afghans. Corruption is still rampant at all levels of the state apparatus, including in the government which has suffered a legitimacy crisis after allegations of widespread fraud during the fake 2009 elections and the fake 2013 elections.
The analysts currently monitoring Afghanistan indicates that the extensive casualties and logistical problems suffered by Afghan troops have proved that they are very weak are not resilient in tactical fighting against the Taliban. The puppet Afghan forces remain deeply troubled as they continue to be afflicted by drug abuse, illiteracy, desertions and combat-related incapacities.
NATO has failed in Afghanistan pretending to have succeeded but that’s just camouflage to disguise what is in fact an embarrassing if predictable defeat.”„Incidents in recent days illustrate how Afghan puppet regime forces will struggle with reduced Western support, particularly from the air.
When Taliban attacked a foreign guest house in central Kabul last Thursday, Afghan commandos killed the attackers, but international helicopters and Special Forces helped in the mop-up operation that lasted hours.
Taliban fighters also entered Camp Bastion, a large base in the southern Helmand province handed over to Afghan troops a month ago by the withdrawing U.S. and British forces. It took Afghan soldiers three days to regain control.
After 13 years of NATO struggle for their puppet installed mafia style government the puppet Afghan government is seen as rapacious, abusive, and exclusionary by the common Afghans. Corruption is still rampant at all levels of the state apparatus, including in the government which has suffered a legitimacy crisis after allegations of widespread fraud during the fake 2009 elections and the fake 2013 elections.
The analysts currently monitoring Afghanistan indicates that the extensive casualties and logistical problems suffered by Afghan troops have proved that they are very weak are not resilient in tactical fighting against the Taliban. The puppet Afghan forces remain deeply troubled as they continue to be afflicted by drug abuse, illiteracy, desertions and combat-related incapacities.
NATO has failed in Afghanistan pretending to have succeeded but that’s just camouflage to disguise what is in fact an embarrassing if predictable defeat.”
http://www.shahamat-english.com/index.php/articles/51313-nato's-end-in-afghanistan-and-the-achievements
and some latest news:
„KANDAHAR, Dec. 27 – An IED placed in Ibrahim Khalifa Baba area of Dand district blew apart the vehicle of hireling NDS intelligence agency late afternoon hours Friday, killing all 6 agents onboard. KHOST, Dec. 27 – At least five policemen were killed and wounded Saturday in a bomb blast ripping up an enemy ranger vehicle in Sheikh Amir district of Khost province.
BALKH, Dec. 27 – At least two policemen have been killed in an explosion with an officer wounded northern Balkh province.
Later Friday, Mujahideen attacked a vehicle crewed by the police with IEDs in which at least 2 policemen were killed and Hashim, a recruit officer got wounded.”
Alicia says
This is the same Allahbama that withdrew US troops prematurely. The same Allahbama that didn’t pressure the former Iraqi government and Iran to stop their sectarian, pro-Shiite actions.
Allahbama brings shame to humanity.
Salah says
“The National Defence Commission (NDC) also accused the US of shutting down North Korea’s internet – and described Mr Obama as “reckless” and “a monkey”.”
“reckless” and “a monkey”?????
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30608179
Myxlplik says
Too funny, N Korea totally censors the Internet, with a 1000 total IP addresses there isn’t much to shut down….
http://abcnews.go.com/International/internet-north-korea/story?id=27789459
Walter Sieruk says
The whole problem with that statement that President [Sovereign] Obama made in the title of the above article is that he is always interfering with the US military generals knowledge about what to do about terrorists dangers in Afghanistan. Also, Obama is also always,with his own rules of engagement, interferes,very much, with the US Troops ability to do their job well in that country. Is should be remembered that in THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu it teaches “He will win who has the military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”
Jay Boo says
Off topic
10 year anniversary of tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia
http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/indonesia/70321-aceh-passes-stricter-new-sharia-law
Remember all those liberal lefties at the office who when they discovered Muslims lived there were so very PC proud to be seen donating money to help the Muslims.
Oh well,
Some of their money apparently went into turning Banda Aceh into a sharia compliant state even more intolerant to people like them than the rest of Indonesia.
particolor says
But they did Build a beautiful Mosque with the Donations !! Thank You Infidels !!
Sam says
Obama. What an idiot! I have no words for those who have elected him twice and protecting him all those years. No I do have one name for them: “ignorant traitors of freedom loving Americans”
William says
I can understand why blacks unanimously voted for Obama. They vote for their own kind. They conform with the tribe. But I cannot understand why whites in large numbers voted for him. For if it were not for those whites, he would not have been elected. It appears to me that those whites who voted for him did so out of self-imposed guilt and self-hate. They are the ones to whom you should direct your ire and your consternation.
Alissa says
The white middle class leftists, especially females, are the worst traitors. Why did they vote for Obama? Because he’s black and they can feel self-righteous voting for a minority. They are the same group that refuse to recognize muslims for what they are…enemies who refuse to assimilate but instead are trying to erase our freedoms and our children’s future. The Left are destroying our culture as much as Obama is and as much as the Islamic take over is. Because of their arrogance and stupidity, they are every bit the enemy as the others.
The left are all about their misguided, factually ignorant, self-serving and self-righteous, “feel good” opinions. They don’t care about facts. They don’t want to hear anything that contradicts their self-important attitudes. They certainly don’t want their comfortable bubble burst by factual evidence proving Obama’s severe incompetence. Then they’d have to do some self-analysis. They don’t want that because it forces them to be truthful. They don’t live in the real world. They live in the “feel good” world where you can say anything as long as it makes you feel morally superior.
BC says
There was such hope for the first ‘black’ president, technically mixed race as the only pure blacks AKA Africans in USA are recent migrants from Africa. People stuck to him through thick and thin and there has been a lot of thin. This loyalty was helped by the constant attacks on him by the GOP. I think his re election has given him a sense of
omnipotence. His loyalty to his Islamic roots is proving disastrous. He is going to be seen as perhaps the worst POTUS in history and there have been quite a few of them.
Jay Boo says
The UN gave away a Peace Prize to Obama before he even stepped into office based on nothing but his campaign promise of hope for peace.
How shameless is that?
There are Muslims at the UN
steakman says
Great rant on the LEFT…totally agree with you….Y adjust left out one thing:
The preponderance of their use of the word “Victim” whereby any perceived social injustice must have its set of victims . Victimhood is their religion.
Wellington says
Just conclude the opposite of what Obama says or does and you have about a 99% chance of getting it right. Remember, “If you like your health plan, you like your doctor, you can keep them?” How about Obama in the Professor Gates tempest-in-a-tea pot incident where Obama called the Cambridge, MA police “stupid?” Then there was Obama’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt which even the Egyptian people ended up rejecting. And let’s not forget that when Obama says someone better not cross a “red line,” oh boy does he mean it, now doesn’t he? And on and on and on. And now this about Afghanistan. No terrorist problems from that sorry excuse for a country again. Yeah, right.
Jay Boo says
Obama is a religion to some.
Here is a link involving a very intelligent man who happens to be an atheist.
He makes some objective comments about religion throughout however, near the end of the video clip even he goes weak in the knee under the Obama hope and change spell of Leftist PC disease.
Religion infiltrating politics is 21st century’s greatest problem – Nobel laureate Sir Kroto
somehistory says
He ends this nonsense talk by saying he speaks for everyone in the country…and trying to make all feel obligated to agree…by saying “we salute you.”
At the risk of gaining the ire of all others, I have to say, he is not speaking, has never spoken, and will never speak for me. No matter what he says or when he says it.
Someone should call his attention to what Paul wrote to the Thessalonians in his first letter, chapter 5, verse 3, “When they say, “Peace and Security,” then sudden destruction comes on them like pains of labor on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”
Unlike the nonsense he said to his captive audience, Paul spoke the truth.
Jay Boo says
Why doesn’t Obama talk about the Koran’s many hateful verses?
Instead he attacks Christianity in particular and Judaism as well while putting up a smokescreen of it being about tolerance of all other faiths.
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/shame-video-resurfaces-of-barack-obama-mocking-the-bible-jesus-for-3-minutes/
TH says
Obama urgently needs to be interned in a psychiatric unit as he is suffering from serious delusions. The clearest sign of mental illness is a dissasociation from reality. The other option is that he is one of the greeat liars of history.
particolor says
Nobody is Better than our Tony !!
petey says
Ill see your Tony Blair and raise you a Justin Truduea, I fear the prospect!!!
duh_swami says
I’m going to trump both of you with a John Kerry, backed by a Joe Biden.
particolor says
I’m still laughing, but that was a Tony Abbott !! Ill push all My chips in the centre of the Card table !!
Bezelel says
Rural people who cling to religion and guns? obola is a carbuncle on the ass of history. A very very sick joke imposed on humanity. I cannot look at a photo of him or hear his voice without feeling nauseous. A horde of flies and maggots feasting in a sewer is less offensive.If he had an ounce of integrity he would resign. Other than that, I’m willing to bet your average Afghan has never heard of 9/11. Pakistan is the haven for jihad and obola is in bed with them. I think I’m going to go puke now.
Bezelel says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS5-JRTM7aU&feature=player_detailpage
A video of obola at his best
PE says
Obama is going to be the source of new terrorist attacks.
He is allowing Jamaat al-Fuqra to build terrorist training camps and to recruit jihadis form our prisons.
He has tied the ands of the FBI to investigate these goings on and
He has appointed 6 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to the Department of Homeland Security.
They no longer need bases in Afghanistan, they can build them right here.
Jack Holan says
What-planet-is-Obama-residing-on
Has-he-entered-the-Outer-Limits!
particolor says
One Step Beyond !!
Nicu says
Dear Mr. President – are you living in Europe ? Of course not – than you would speak different – or maybe not .
duh_swami says
Rasool Obama was given the gift of the longest expressions with the smallest meanings. Like the old time comic Prof Irwin Corey, Rasool can talk for an hour and not say much of anything.
I would bet a dollar against a cup cake that within 1-2 weeks of America’s with drawl, the Taliban will be celebrating the return of Mullah Omar.
Tim says
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
David Harding says
With this comment…. President Obama promised that Afghanistan is “not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again” our elected official has removed all and any doubt that he is mentally incompetent to perform his duties, he should take a medical leave. It is astonishing that he wasn’t booed off the stage, and out of the presidency with such blindness. It is becoming an ironic, dangerous, and scary comedy of errors. God Please Help my USA!