Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina. The name means "good winds". Today, president Obama spoke from the Casa Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace in the center of the city. There was so much hot air that it threatened to stop those good winds.
Obama actually said that defeating ISIS is his top priority as president. It was amazing that none of the reporters started laughing at that point. If there is anything clear about Obama and his views of ISIS, it is that Obama does not care about ISIS. He only mentions ISIS when there is one of those pesky terror attacks that kills ten or a hundred people. Otherwise, Obama wants to focus on golf or trips or virtually anything else.
Obama also said that ISIS is not an existential threat to the USA since ISIS does not produce anything (his words, not mine.) Of course, Obama is wrong. ISIS does produce something very important: dead people. In the last three years, ISIS has killed tens of thousands of people with estimates running as high as 100,000 dead at the hands of these monsters. For Obama, however, this is just an annoyance. It's not a real threat. After all, what's a few more dead from terrorism? No big deal, right?
Obama also used his time today to do one of his famous straw man attacks. This time the target was Ted Cruz. Cruz said that he would "carpet bomb" ISIS. That's a poor choice of words. Carpet bombing is a term last used during the war in Vietnam when the USA sent squadrons of B-52 bombers to drop thousands of bombs from high altitude on an area and literally to destroy everything in that area. Cruz, however, has explained that what he really means is that America needs to increase the intensity of our air strikes on ISIS. During the Gulf War, our air force hit the Iraqi forces with about 1500 strikes each day. Against ISIS, the Obama battle order has been to hit ISIS about 10 to 15 times each day. That's less than 1% of the level of the Gulf War. So what does Obama do? He ignores Cruz's explanation and instead explains why carpet bombing a la Vietnam would be a bad idea for countering ISIS. Obama has no answer to Cruz's actual point, so instead he answers something that Cruz wasn't actually saying.
Finally, today, Obama again said that our strategy for dealing with ISIS has been working and would not be changed. Maybe he should tell that to the families of those who dies in San Bernardino, Paris and Brussels. Maybe he could bring back Hillary and she could tell those families that their loved ones died because of some youtube video. (Hey, it worked for Obama last time they tried it.)
January 20, 2017 cannot come fast enough for America.
Obama actually said that defeating ISIS is his top priority as president. It was amazing that none of the reporters started laughing at that point. If there is anything clear about Obama and his views of ISIS, it is that Obama does not care about ISIS. He only mentions ISIS when there is one of those pesky terror attacks that kills ten or a hundred people. Otherwise, Obama wants to focus on golf or trips or virtually anything else.
Obama also said that ISIS is not an existential threat to the USA since ISIS does not produce anything (his words, not mine.) Of course, Obama is wrong. ISIS does produce something very important: dead people. In the last three years, ISIS has killed tens of thousands of people with estimates running as high as 100,000 dead at the hands of these monsters. For Obama, however, this is just an annoyance. It's not a real threat. After all, what's a few more dead from terrorism? No big deal, right?
Obama also used his time today to do one of his famous straw man attacks. This time the target was Ted Cruz. Cruz said that he would "carpet bomb" ISIS. That's a poor choice of words. Carpet bombing is a term last used during the war in Vietnam when the USA sent squadrons of B-52 bombers to drop thousands of bombs from high altitude on an area and literally to destroy everything in that area. Cruz, however, has explained that what he really means is that America needs to increase the intensity of our air strikes on ISIS. During the Gulf War, our air force hit the Iraqi forces with about 1500 strikes each day. Against ISIS, the Obama battle order has been to hit ISIS about 10 to 15 times each day. That's less than 1% of the level of the Gulf War. So what does Obama do? He ignores Cruz's explanation and instead explains why carpet bombing a la Vietnam would be a bad idea for countering ISIS. Obama has no answer to Cruz's actual point, so instead he answers something that Cruz wasn't actually saying.
Finally, today, Obama again said that our strategy for dealing with ISIS has been working and would not be changed. Maybe he should tell that to the families of those who dies in San Bernardino, Paris and Brussels. Maybe he could bring back Hillary and she could tell those families that their loved ones died because of some youtube video. (Hey, it worked for Obama last time they tried it.)
January 20, 2017 cannot come fast enough for America.
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