POTUS about to speak on

[alsame]

James Foley...MSNBC and CNN covering it.


LINK TO VIDEO:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?321078-1/president-obama-remarks-james-foley

[BaggersRDumb]

1. What did he say? Summary?

[alsame]

2. He hasn't spoken yet nt

[alsame]

3. He eulogized James Foley and talked

about ISIS being a cancer that crosses the line of humanity.

The US will continue doing what it has to do and he called upon people in the Middle East to continue fighting against them too.

That's it, in brief. I'll post video when I find it.

[BaggersRDumb]

6. Imagine what McCain would do now if he was president

thank GOD he isnt

[AngryAmish]

7. Last year McCain and the administration wanted to arm ISIS

There was a press conference about a year ago where Obama announced we might bomb Syria and arm ISIS.

Then everyone lost their shit (because that was crazy) and the administration backed down. Remember Putin saving our ass?

Stupid world. Stupid country.

[BaggersRDumb]

10. Obama backed down, McCain would double down

[AngryAmish]

13. True that

When Samantha Powers and the rest of the National Security nutters tried to make us join that war Obama wisely told them to pound sand up their asses.

McCain woyld have asked for the launch codes.

[alsame]

12. I just posted a CSPAN link in

my OP, you can see it all.

[bigdarryl]

4. I knew this going back in Iraq was going to be bad

[Avalux]

9. We started this 11 years ago.

When you invade a country, destabilize the government and kill its people, what can we expect? I'm just sorry Obama has to deal with Bushco's fucked up decision to invade Iraq.

[randome]

14. ISIS had its genesis in Syria.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Avalux]

15. Are you disagreeing with me?

We have created the situation in Iraq, an opportunity. Whether ISIS or another extremist group moves in the fill the void is irrelevant.

[randome]

16. No, we're mostly in agreement, except I don't see ISIS filling a void.

They're more like a gang of cut-throats trying to create a void. Our decimation of Iraq didn't help Iraq at all (to say the least) but the blame for ISIS belongs solely on members of ISIS. You don't behead strangers, murder and kidnap hundreds and think it somehow will lead to power. That's not rational thinking.

ISIS is not composed of rational people.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[frazzled]

17. So what are you saying about ISIS?

That all the beheadings and violent terror against citizens in Syria, and then Iraq, over the past two years was okay, because we weren't involved during that time--and that, damn it, if we just hadn't tried to push them back and save some people recently this latest beheading wouldn't have happened? That's what it sounds like.

We have the situation we have--with the region destabilized due largely to our invasion of Iraq 11 years ago. But you can't just bemoan the past: you have to deal with what is happening today, right now. Are you cool with ISIS setting up a strict Muslim caliphate across the region, and beheading and terrorizing people in order to get it?

Or do you just want us to turn our heads the other way? Is that the cool, Ron Paulish thing to do?

Life isn't easy or uncomplicated, and foreign affairs are even less so.

[hexola]

5. I thought the Prez seemed about as pissed as I've ever heard...

paraphrased:

"ISIS has no place in the 21st century...no redeeming value to humanity..."

[randome]

8. Wow. Strong words. And I agree.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]