Fact Finder wrote:From berry's press conference yesterday...“What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning or whatever other slogans they come up with that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and to protect the people in the region who are getting killed and to protect our allies and people like France,” Obama said. “I’m too busy for that.”
Unreal. So American leadership and winning is a slogan? FUBO
He's absolutely correct. Rushing in with American troops to fight a war in against ISIS without the committed support from partners in the region, as well as NATO allies, is futile and worthless. W already proved that by starting this entire mess in the first place. We should absolutely do no more then we are doing right now until other countries are willing to bleed as well.
"American leadership" should not equate to sacrificing our children so other countries in the region where the problem exists do not have to. "American leadership" should not mean that America bleeds so other countries do not have to. "American leadership" IS being used as a political "slogan" or phrase to put pressure on the President to yield and make a specific decision. He is ABSOLUTELY correct.
It's the right decision and I am glad Obama is doing the right thing rather than yielding to political pressure and the obvious knee jerk emotional response and instead is doing the right thing for this country. If the Arab nations along with our NATO allies are not willing to bleed along side American soldiers, then we should not sacrifice our country for them.
Shame on you and others for insisting we repeat our mistakes from the past because it is politically appealing.