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Wedeln: Defending ISIS strategy

Here, according to Wedeln6969, is why Obama is playing (the fight with ISIS) exactly correct.

  • 1. ISIS is a negligible threat to our homeland security.
  • 2 There are ZERO examples of US military combat troops reducing, eliminating or controlling terrorism. We just fertilize the fields with our bullets and their blood.
  • 3 He has zero you know whats left to give to bloviating racist white GOP congressmen who have acted absolutely hideously his two terms.
  • 4 He has an astounding legacy right now with what he's done for the USA with his leadership. Unparalleled. Why risk that for a leap down the Middle East Rabbit Hole?
  • 5 He actually gives a damn about Americans unlike GWB and Cheney. He doesn't want to send young men and women over there into a meatgrinding buzzsaw of death and injury.
  • 6 There's a coalition lighting up Syria and Iraq right now. We don't need to be chainsawing the populace on the ground with marines and army. Let the others do some heavy lifting.

Question: Agree? Mostly agree? Don't agree?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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