*Obama Remains Consistent in His Indifference to Slaughter---muslim
slaughter in the middle east is not an American concern.fight your own
religious wars without US weapons and tax dollars.*
On Friday, August 8, 2014 1:46:18 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote:
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> *Obama Remains Consistent in His Indifference to Slaughter*
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> By Jonah Goldberg
> TownHall.com
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> In the summer of 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama was asked if he was worried
> that his proposed withdrawal from Iraq would result in ethnic cleansing or
> even genocide.
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> He scoffed at the premise.
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> "By that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now --
> where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife --
> which we haven't done," he told the Associated Press. "We would be
> deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven't done.
> Those of us who care about Darfur don't think it would be a good idea."
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> Obama glossed over a crucial distinction. The slaughter in Congo wasn't
> caused by our actions. The assumption behind the AP's question -- backed by
> countless experts -- was that a withdrawal from Iraq at the time would
> almost certainly lead to slaughter. Obama's remarkable answer was that even
> if you accepted the premise that leaving would ignite mass slaughter, it
> would still be right to bug out of Iraq.
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> Of course, as is his wont, Obama covered all of the rhetorical bases. He
> acknowledged that leaving prematurely would be bad.
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> "Nobody is proposing we leave precipitously. There are still going to be
> U.S. forces in the region that could intercede, with an international
> force, on an emergency basis," he insisted. "There's no doubt there are
> risks of increased bloodshed in Iraq without a continuing U.S. presence
> there."
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> Then came the patented Obama take-back. "It is my assessment that those
> risks are even greater if we continue to occupy Iraq and serve as a magnet
> for not only terrorist activity but also irresponsible behavior by Iraqi
> factions," he said.
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> As grotesque as Obama's moral argument was, it was unknowable at the time
> whether his analysis was correct. It's now pretty clear he was wrong on all
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> When Obama pulled American troops out of Iraq, they were not serving as a
> magnet for terrorists; they were acting as a deterrent not only to
> terrorists but to "irresponsible" Iraqi factions.
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> (By the way, what is it with Obama and the word "irresponsible"? In
> Wednesday's press conference, Obama said that by targeting civilians, Hamas
> was behaving "extraordinarily irresponsibly." This is only slightly less
> condemnatory than "inadvisable" or "unproductive" -- and far more
> conciliatory than the language he uses about Republicans daily.)
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> Admittedly, he couldn't have predicted the rise of the Islamic State of
> Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2007 any more than he could have predicted the
> debacle of his Syria policy and his vacillating "red line" rhetoric, which
> partly led to the rise of ISIS.
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> But as recently as last November, Obama dismissed ISIS and other al-Qaeda
> affiliates as nothing more than a jayvee squad. While interviewing Obama,
> The New Yorker's David Remnick noted that "the flag of al-Qaeda is now
> flying in Fallujah, in Iraq, and among various rebel factions in Syria,"
> and that "al-Qaeda has asserted a presence in parts of Africa, too."
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> The president shot back: "If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that
> doesn't make them Kobe Bryant."
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> Now, that same junior varsity team controls more territory than any
> terrorist organization in history, has some 5,000 battle-hardened jihadists
> with Western passports, hundreds of millions of dollars at its disposal,
> and is earning millions more every day by selling oil on the black market.
> It is slaughtering Shiites, Christians and other "infidels" with a medieval
> abandon that makes the alleged A-team of al-Qaeda blanch with horror. At
> this moment it has cornered tens of thousands of Yazidi villagers on a
> mountaintop. ISIS presents them with a choice: convert to Islam at gunpoint
> or die of thirst.
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> To its credit, the Pentagon is reportedly contemplating airlifting food
> and water to the Yazidis, though you wouldn't know that from anything the
> president has said.
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> You have to give Obama points for consistency. He remains as blasé about
> mass slaughter today as he was in 2007. Back then he presented our options
> as a choice between doing nothing and "deploying unilaterally" to put
> American troops in harm's way. He plays the same rhetorical games today,
> insisting that critics who want to provide military aid to, say, the Kurds
> or the Ukrainians are really proposing war. And since no one wants war, we
> should accept our new role as bystander to slaughter.
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> It's quite a legacy you're working on there, Mr. President.
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