{"id":6358,"date":"2014-08-29T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=6358"},"modified":"2014-08-29T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T23:10:00","slug":"gop-rep-cole-tamps-down-obama-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6358","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep. Cole tamps down Obama criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Rep. Tom Cole must be running a fever. Perhaps he’s been in the hot Oklahoma sun too long.<\/p>\n

The Republican lawmaker actually said\u00a0President Obama is being “commendably cautious” about developing a strategy\u00a0to deal with ISIL.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/tom-cole-obama-isil-110443.html?hp=l4<\/p>\n

Commendably cautious? What’s going on here?<\/p>\n

Cole is one of the few GOP lawmakers to\u00a0suggest that Obama shouldn’t be rushed into developing such a strategy. Indeed, Cole noted that the White House has crafted “the elements of a strategy” already.<\/p>\n

I’m one of those who said the other day that the president needs to get cracking on a strategy to deal with ISIL, the notorious terrorist group that many experts say makes al-Qaeda look like a Boy Scout troop.\u00a0I still believe the president shouldn’t waste time.<\/p>\n

Then again, it’s refreshing to hear at least one leading congressional Republican suggest that critics are hyperventilating needlessly.<\/p>\n

Cole takes appropriate note of the complexities facing the White House in the Syria conflict. Bashar al-Assad is fighting ISIL. The United States hardly is Assad’s friend. Indeed, President Obama has called for Assad’s ouster. Who should replace him? Certainly no one who’s friends with ISIL.<\/p>\n

Therein lies the president’s “commendable caution.”<\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Tom Cole must be running a fever. Perhaps he’s been in the hot Oklahoma sun too long. The Republican lawmaker actually said\u00a0President Obama is being “commendably cautious” about developing a strategy\u00a0to deal with ISIL. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/tom-cole-obama-isil-110443.html?hp=l4 Commendably cautious? What’s going on here? Cole is one of the few GOP lawmakers to\u00a0suggest that Obama shouldn’t … Continue reading GOP Rep. Cole tamps down Obama criticism<\/span> →<\/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":[5,13,14],"tags":[222,540,556,2347,4489,4840],"class_list":["post-6358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-barack-obama","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-isil","tag-syria","tag-tom-cole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358","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=6358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}