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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
(59,503 posts)69. What would you recommend Obama do in the Middle East?
The world is a complicated mess. There are no easy answers. Every answer - from completely withdrawing from what is an interconnected global world to bombing every country John McCain ever considered bombing - has down sides.
What is the policy that would do the least damage and the most good in your opinion?
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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