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June 10, 2015

After being embarrassed over the ISIS debacle in Syria and Iraq, President Obama is now sending 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq.

As you know, the problem is America failing to diminish the ISIS terror group, which is growing in power.

Earlier this week the president told the world he still doesn't have a plan to defeat the jihadists.

Obama in Krun, Germany on Monday

OBAMA: “When a finalized plan is presented to me by the Pentagon, then I will share it with the American people.  It’s not – we don’t yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of Iraqis, as well. ((EDIT)) The details of that are not yet worked out.”

Now after that statement, The Factor and some other media outlets roundly criticized the president.

Also, some members of Congress are extremely troubled, including the powerful Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California.

To re-state, there is no excuse in the world why the USA does not have a plan to defeat these savages.

But the hard truth is, despite ISIS expanding into at least five countries, President Obama has dithered and failed to lead the world against these mass murderers.

It is estimated that ISIS and other jihadist groups have executed more than 10,000 human beings, many of them beheaded or burned alive. 

As Talking Points has stated before, this is Nazi stuff.  There is no difference in mentality between the ISIS group and the Third Reich.

They both believe they are entitled to slaughter human beings at will.

In the 1930s, the world did not stop Hitler and his mad regime.  The result: more than 50 million dead in Europe, including innocent men, women and children slaughtered in concentration camps.

The Holocaust, as it is known, was perhaps the worst atrocity in history.

So I have a question for you.

Do you think ISIS would perpetuate another Holocaust if it could?

Here's the answer: Of course.  These savages would do that without remorse.

President Obama is practicing CYA by sending a few hundred more U.S. military personnel to Iraq, bringing the total to just under 4,000.

But Iraq is the wrong place to confront ISIS.

The real campaign should take place in Syria, where ISIS has command and control in the city of Raqqa.

President Obama and whatever countries he can cajole to help us should go into Syria, take the city and destroy the infrastructure of ISIS.

At the same time, the Kurds should be directly armed with American weapons, and the bombing campaign should continue in Iraq.

That's a plan.  Sending a few hundred folks because you're embarrassed is not a plan.

And that's the memo. 

 

Posted by Bill O'Reilly at 7:43 PM
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