{"id":6631,"date":"2014-09-29T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2014-09-29T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:55:52","slug":"u-s-not-alone-in-this-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6631","title":{"rendered":"U.S. not alone in this fight"},"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>Barack Obama wants it known that the United States is not fighting the Islamic State one-on-one, nation vs. cult.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States said on &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; that the country he leads is just a leader in the fight that comprises an international coalition of nations battling a despicable terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/barack-obama-isil-111395.html?hp=l2<\/p>\n<p>I get that.<\/p>\n<p>The harder sell will be to Americans who are likely to perceive that since we&#8217;re &#8220;leading&#8221; the air strikes against ISIL in Syria and Iraq that it, indeed, is our fight to win.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to welcome the rest of the world to join us in this war against this clearly defined evil force.<\/p>\n<p>There must be no illusions about how long this conflict will persist. As we&#8217;ve learned so painfully, the death of one key terrorist leader such as Osama bin Laden does not by itself necessarily weaken an organization he would lead. Al-Qaeda received a serious blow to its command and control when the SEAL and CIA commando team smoked bin Laden in May 2011. Others have surfaced to take his place.<\/p>\n<p>As the world has learned, ISIL has emerged as a serious world threat.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the world must fight this menace. That is what the president seeks to do, build a worldwide coalition of nations willing and able to fight ISIL to the death.<\/p>\n<p>It is not our battle to wage on our own.<\/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>Barack Obama wants it known that the United States is not fighting the Islamic State one-on-one, nation vs. cult. The president of the United States said on &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; that the country he leads is just a leader in the fight that comprises an international coalition of nations battling a despicable terrorist organization. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/barack-obama-isil-111395.html?hp=l2 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. not alone in this fight<\/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":[1],"tags":[93,222,540,2347,2362,3458,5177],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-60-minutes","tag-al-qaeda","tag-barack-obama","tag-isil","tag-islamic-state","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","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=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}