President Obama gave a pretty good speech Wednesday night. Pressured by the American people's overwhelming support for defeating ISIS, President Obama gave a speech his predecessor, President George W. Bush could have applauded.
Many of President Obama's words were reassuring. He was dedicated to defeating ISIS. He would pursue anyone who threatened America. He was committed to a long, difficult campaign.
Unfortunately for the President and the country, there were five major strategic flaws in his speech. These flaws are so profound that the Congress should hold hearings exploring each of them.
President Obama's speech was a good start to a long and difficult process of figuring out how to defeat radical Islamism and learning the lessons of 13 years of failure to do so. It cannot have been the final word on what America has to do to win the war with radical Islamism.
The five strategic failures in the speech are: 1.Failing to define the global threat and a global strategy to defeat it 2.Failing to define a positive goal 3.Failing to explain how we are going to compel so-called allies to do what is necessary to defeat radical Islamism 4.Failing to explain how hard and long and frustrating this war will be 5.Failing to ask for the resources this kind of war will require If left uncorrected these five failures doom the President’s plan to failure.
Let me explain each failure and why it must be fixed.
******************* "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Abraham Lincoln
"The sanctity of human life before birth, the respect for our culture's religious underpinnings and the hallowedness of the M/F marital bond are all being stripped of their value and reduced to natural commodities with the sole purpose of serving our personal gratification."
What makes you think what you see as a failure isn't what Zero wants to happen.
Your strategy mixes some accurate observations with lots of Global Governance, NWO fixes, e.g.
5. All this will require new resources, new programs, and potentially new institutions. We went through that process of programmatic and institutional invention in the early stages of the Cold War. We have to do so again.
4. Sadly, this war with radical Islamism may go on for a long time.
3. One of the great failures in the 13 years since 9/11 has been our failure to develop a system for compelling our allies to cooperate in defeating radical Islamism.
Newt your mentoring by Alvin Toffler is showing.
Toffler a proponent of the 'Third Wave", a post industrial society: "His description of this (super-industrial society) dovetails into other writers' concepts (like the Information Age, Space Age, Electronic Era, Global Village, technetronic age, scientific-technological revolution)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler
Toffler is an expert in disguising the concepts of global governance.
Zitat................They [Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler] condemn those who "appeal to nostalgia in their rhetoric about culture and values, as though one could return to the values and morality of the 1950s—a time before universal television, before the birth-control pill, before commercial jet aviation, satellites and home computers—without also returning to the mass industrial society of the Second Wave" (p. 77). How do satellites change morality? The all-determining influence of technology operates in the Tofflers' system as an unquestioned axiom.
If their predictions are banal, and their social theory unfounded and simplistic, their recommendations for political change are more than a little sinister. Although constantly calling for decentralization, they also complain that we are "politically primitive and undeveloped" at the "transnational level." Decisions must be transferred "up" from the nation-state (p. 100). Translating the Tofflers' Third Wave argot into English, this is a call for global government. Not surprisingly, those who oppose Nafta are prisoners of the outmoded Second Wave. .......... http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=69
The basic flaw in Obama's "strategy" is that he doesn't mean of word of this: "He was dedicated to defeating ISIS. He would pursue anyone who threatened America. He was committed to a long, difficult campaign."
That was all just boilerplate for November.
202 years ago this week, First Lady Dolly Madison saved the famous portrait of George Washington from the White House during the War of 1812. If it happened today, Obama would probably save his golf clubs!~~FB comment