Why didn't Obama mention punishing those who profit from ISIS oil smuggling or states who fund them?

[yurbud]

Dropping bombs is viscerally satisfying, but if you cut off their flow of money, their "threat" will quickly be reduced to that of a homeless guy with a plastic spork.

[atreides1]

1. Allies?

Just saying!

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Indeed...Turkey is one of the oil buyers, and is anti-russian, sooooooooo. n/t

[TexasProgresive]

2. Some of that oil may be in your tank. n/t

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Yeeeaaa...it's real smart to publicly announce punishing profiteers of Daesh smuggled oil.

Then they're given a fair chance to plan ahead in order to stop it from happening. Real smart.

[yurbud]

4. Our government has done stupider things, like announcing "chatter" about an upcoming terror attack

instead of just acting on the intel they have.

If there actually is any.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. They announce chatter to scare everybody. nt

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. Right? lol ... "I'm coming to you tonight from the Oval Office to tell you our strategy...

...to defeat ISIL."

SMH

[BlueCaliDem]

8. I know!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

11. I just stole your ROFL...

[BlueCaliDem]

14. I'm happy you like it!

[hueymahl]

12. What???

What you are saying does not make any sense. There needs to be a clear foreign policy statement that we are going to starve the beast that is the Islamic State. Coordinate efforts with our Allies, put pressure on those that cooperate with ISIS that are not allies and do so that has real economic consequences to state actors and corporation that cannot certify their oil did not originate from ISIS.

You can't do this "stealthily". In fact, you want it to be as public as possible so people know they are going face repercussions. Will some oil get through? Of course, but if you can greatly increase their costs (or drive down the price the dirtbags of the planet will pay for ISIS oil), you can have a very real effect on ISIS.

Or we could just drop bombs and say "fuck-it"

[ChisolmTrailDem]

15. He mentioned sealing Turkey's border...

[LittleBlue]

7. Because he isn't serious about it

His plan is to carry on as before except with a different terror alert system

[CrispyQ]

9. Maybe because of this?

US defense contractors caught celebrating the financial benefits of ISIS and war in the Middle East : http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027427303

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. And teh "bad" word in that entire sentence is...."caught"...n/t

[Iggo]

13. 'Cause them's our buds. (n/t)

[KamaAina]

17. Because the rumors about Erdogan buying Daesh oil are true?

[yurbud]

18. where else could it be going? And how hard would it be to find tanker trucks?