{"id":6346,"date":"2014-08-28T21:37:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2014-08-28T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:37:31","slug":"time-for-a-strategy-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6346","title":{"rendered":"Time for a strategy, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>President Obama made a startling acknowledgment today while talking about a range of issues.<\/p>\n<p>He said the United States does not yet have a strategy to deal with ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/white-house-isil-russia-ukraine-110426.html?hp=t1<\/p>\n<p>Well, there you have it. It&#8217;s time to craft a strategy, Mr. President, to combat an organization that does present a serious threat that extends far beyond the region it is seeking to control.<\/p>\n<p>ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It is a seriously evil organization capable of doing anything &#8212; and I mean <em>anything<\/em> &#8212; to make whatever point it seeks to make.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve beheaded an American journalist, threatened to strike the United States, and vowed to wage all-out war on non-Sunni Muslims, Jews and Christians.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m of the view that the president needs to develop a comprehensive strategy immediately and to implement whatever it takes to take ISIL out.<\/p>\n<p>Are we going back into Iraq with ground troops? Obama says no. I hope he means what he says. Count me as one American who&#8217;s become war-weary in the extreme. Are we going to send troops into Syria? By all means no. What we have in Syria is a battle between forces that are anathema to our national and international interests. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is hardly better than the ISIL forces seeking to topple him.<\/p>\n<p>ISIL needs to be the target, Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciated today hearing you acknowledge the lack of a strategy. Now, though, is time to assemble that national security team to develop one. Now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama made a startling acknowledgment today while talking about a range of issues. He said the United States does not yet have a strategy to deal with ISIL. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/white-house-isil-russia-ukraine-110426.html?hp=t1 Well, there you have it. It&#8217;s time to craft a strategy, Mr. President, to combat an organization that does present a serious threat that extends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time for a strategy, Mr. President<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[200,2330,2347,4489,5177],"class_list":["post-6346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-political-news","tag-air-strikes","tag-iraq","tag-isil","tag-syria","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}