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In reply to the discussion: Is anyone else angry that the media is ignoring the real progress made against ISIS [View all]karynnj
(59,501 posts)54. I do think some of the cheap shots are clearly dishonest
The biggest one is that they jumped on Obama's comment of "no strategy" -- that was said after he had recently given a pretty strong speech and said top national security people in his administration were going to work with other countries to define how they could stop ISIS. It is reasonable to assume that input from all those discussions will lead Obama and others to define a strategy.
McCain's taking this at face value and ignoring that Obama was actually doing things was completely disingenuous. (Even worse was when he went ballistic on what Obama did in Russia and then recommended EXACTLY what Obama was already doing!)
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Is anyone else angry that the media is ignoring the real progress made against ISIS [View all]
karynnj
Sep 2014
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I cannot see it as anything but racism. PBO will always be illegimate for not obeying them.
freshwest
Sep 2014
#20
Any announcement made of a successful mission is mostly met with silence.
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#3
Putin and Assad let them flourish. It was their strategy to defeat the "good" rebels
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#5
Actually, since Putin has been propping up, supplying, and advising the
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#9
Sunni Arabs, mostly. But I noticed a while back that the same hysterical Russian
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#12
ISIS served the purposes of Assad, Putin, and Iran (friend of Assad). To a point.
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#17
Assorted bad guys, left over from the good old days of AQ in Iraq, who saw
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#19
I know that and it is poor wording - I meant they were not ours to lose - they were independent
karynnj
Sep 2014
#37
This should be Trending on the Home Page and high on the Great Page. XP'd it to get more K&R's.
freshwest
Sep 2014
#49
The "media"'s MO has only gotten exponentially worse since I dropped it in 2002.. Thank
Cha
Sep 2014
#52
I'm sure the parents of Steven Sotloff are very happy with the real progress that has been made.
egduj
Sep 2014
#66
Note that the same "he's too weak" was NOT made of GWB when beheadings happened then
karynnj
Sep 2014
#71