Obama declares war without calling it war, implementing weak military measures that in no way assure us of victory?

We said that we would go after al Qaeda, and they are on the run…” - Barack Obama, September 28, 2012

By the time of the 2012 Presidential election, Barack Obama had lied to us at least 32 times about the defeat of terrorism, code name Al Qaeda (cnsnews.com, November 1, 2012). Of course, there is plenty of blame to go around about how Republicans lost the election.

But if the liberal media had actually reported the news about the failures of the Obama administration during their first term, any faulty strategy by Romney and the Republicans would hardly have mattered, and Obama would have been soundly defeated.

Repeatedly saying Al Qaeda had been decimated and was on the path to defeat, the propaganda machine of the liberal media/Obama campaign also worked to hide any events that would indicate otherwise, such as the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

As it turns out, President Obama is the one who has been on the run, while in the last two years Al Qaeda in Iraq has transformed into an even worse form of terrorism called the Islamic State.

As it turns out, President Obama is the one who has been on the run, while in the last two years Al Qaeda in Iraq has transformed into an even worse form of terrorism called the Islamic State.

Putting off dealing with the Islamic State as they spread their regime of murder, rape, and genocide throughout Iraq, Obama was instead making sure he could get in a month of golfing and vacationing.
But after two Americans had their beheading broadcast over the internet, and with continued reports of the actions of this regime of mass bloodshed, President Obama had to declare…no, not war but counterinsurgency contingency plans, on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and the 2nd anniversary of Obama doing nothing while our Ambassador to Libya was being murdered in Benghazi

Immediately after Obama’s speech, Senator Ted Cruz said the following to Megyn Kelly on Fox News: “What has been missing is a concrete military objective to eliminate ISIS, to take them out, because they have become qualitatively more dangerous. They have seized substantial portions of Iraq, gaining a nation-state with billions of dollars of oil revenue that gives them the ability to project terror…”

Obama’s speech said nothing about how the Islamic State will be destroyed. A few advisors being sent to organize Iraqi soldiers to fight is not a strategy to defeat a threat more entrenched than the Taliban were in Afghanistan.

In the next day’s follow-up by the Obama administration to the President’s Not War speech, Noah Rothman with hotair.com summed it up this way:

“America is not going to ‘war,’ per say, according to Secretary of State John Kerry and White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest. No, what they envision is merely another counter-terror operation. Just like the supposedly model operations ongoing in nearly imploding Yemen, or in Somalia, which has become synonymous for ‘basket case failed state.’
“While traveling in the Middle East to shore up support for what everyone sure thought was going to be a war to ‘degrade and destroy’ ISIS, America’s chief diplomat took the opportunity to clarify the president’s thinking.
“ ‘What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counter-terrorism operation,’ Kerry said. ‘If somebody wants to think about it as being a war with ISIL they can do so, but the fact is it’s a major counter-terrorism operation.’”

This is probably as close as we can get Mr. Obama making a declaration of war. And what is the basis for this declaration of “a very significant counter-terrorism operation?” None other than a piece of legislation he repeatedly said needed to be repealed, the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed on September 14, 2001:

“the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”

Ever ready to go beyond the bounds of his Constitutional authority, this change of heart should come as no surprise. It doesn’t seem to matter to the Obama administration that Al Qaeda officially dis-associated themselves from ISIS back in February, nor that the War Powers Resolution of 1973 gives the President only 60 days to authorize military action without Congressional approval. What really matters to his administration is that the President is on the run from polling that shows the American people are increasingly fed up with his inability to lead this country. So he declares war without calling it war, implementing weak military measures that in no way assure us of victory.
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