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  • Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    How would that have worked out in WWII? Sprechen sie Deutsche? There is a time and place for leadership and involvement even if it isn't popular.
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  • Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 11 years, 6 months ago
    When I read "President Obama" and "focus" in the same sentence, I chuckle and sometimes even snort. I just can't help myself.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When a group beheads one of your citizens, it is mandatory that tens of thousands of them die. Preferably horribly.

    Mandatory.

    ISIS is not a boys Prep school; they have females and children. Find where they are located, and hit that area. Capture operations if possible without too great a risk, otherwise, scorched earth.

    Odd we have a Chicago occupant of the WH, who won't fight this war the Chicago way...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZ6eaL3...



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    "But — Dr. Whitlock, he's been careful, there's no
    evidence to connect him or his political movement
    with any of this. No criminal acts."

    "Well, that's right, and if that's what you're waiting
    for, you'll never get it," Whitlock said. "Son, a long
    time ago a man named Burke said that for evil to win
    all that's got to happen is that good men do nothin'.
    That's happening here. You're in a war, and you got to
    fight it like a war."

    "And if we get like the enemy what's the point of
    winning?"

    "That's what King David's always sayin'," Whitlock
    said. "Your father, too, sometimes, not so much now.
    Lysander, let me tell you something, you couldn't in a
    million years be like them even if you was to work at
    it." Whitlock studied papers on his desk for a moment-
    "You better think about it. I'll go on plannin' the
    politics for you, and Pete Owensford will go on fightin'
    the enemy for you, good men will go on dyin' for you,
    and hell, it may be enough. Prince Lysander, it just may
    be enough, and maybe you got a point. You've got a
    decent government, and Lord knows I'd hate to see it
    turn mean, but you better think. Your Highness. Just
    how many of your people are you willing to see killed
    just so Citizen Dion Croser can have his legal rights?"
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    from "Prince of Sparta", Pournelle & Stirling

    I just love that last line from that scene.
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  • Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't like the US meddling in the affairs of others but when a group beheads one of your citizens you need to take their threats seriously. I'm surprised Obama got caught making such a foolish statement. He should have said he wasn't prepared to discuss his strategy publicly. Not that he didn't have one. As the article said the rest of the world leaders must be wondering where the US stands on anything.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 6 months ago
    We either need a strategy for managing the entire world or to avoid foreign entanglements whenever possible.
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