that will be trashed on Republican television anyway? All that would do is give Senator "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb the shit out of everybody" something to bitch about next Sunday morning and IS a leg up on our game plan. TCOB, Mr. President... Say only what you need to about strategy (which is what you've been doing already) and know that most of the planet is with you. I've been watching events unfold and know for a fact that the wolves may see you as a sheep, but you are a lion (when necessary) and a fox in avoiding traps.

....so I agree: don't reveal the strategy.

I really don't understand how anyone other than the 1% votes for them, but their supposedly liberal TV's have been telling them for 34 years that Republicans are good and Democrats are bad. We really do need to bring back the Fairness Doctrine.

From what I understand in the MTP interview, he mentions the continual media focus on the "optics" of everything he does, so he is going to give the childish media some "theater" to keep them occupied, since all they do is manufacture it anyway. Meanwhile, he'll continue to work with the grownups to take care of the issue and will never reveal any "real" strategy.

I wish more people realized how well he actually has been dealing with IS and appreciated the fact that he didn't fall into the Syrian trap by toppling Assad. IS waited to see what we were going to do there before they blitzed Iraq, and they would be much stronger now had we made that mistake.

because it is in need of daily maintenance. The freaks running around killing people don't have any other skills obviously. They are simply stealing property and people for the lulz that they don't know what to do with, so they enslave people to do the work for them. But they've killed off the ones who know how. They are indeed a cancer, one of many afflicting the globe these days.

Obama has given the general plan, and the GOP can't do shit. They didn't even care enough to stay in town and work on the nation's business.

This is all Segretti style howling to depress the voters. Too bad people are going to buy it and still complain about Obama.

He's not a dictator and can't keep things in secret except for operational details that would get our people, and our allies, killed. He'll present his case to the American people but MSM will try to block him in every venue.

Some of them will listen. He's not going to send boots on the ground. That has been telegraphed by Kerry and said directly by Obama. There is still a lot that can be done.

And it'll be done without the do-nothing GOP who are selling our nation to the Koch brothers while
some Americans will take a dump on Obama.

That strategy has always worked so well before, hasn't it?

Then we declare victory and everything is just aces for a couple of years, until the next generation is ready to fight us in the form of an even more fanatical, even more determined liberation movement. Thus the Military/Industrial Complex's self-sustaining cycle of invasion, disengagement and re-invasion can continue turning round and round forever.

and yes I mean that as a true thanks and not in a snarky way
this president is on top of it and makes me feel more secure in my daily life with each decision he makes. I trust him to make decision for me that is in my better interest and so far he has not let me down.

where the dam in LA breaks, and reading this story, it's a frightening thought seeing infrastructure like this fall into the hands of fundie freaks with an anti-social track record like the one ISIS brings with them.

fighting for their country. I mean what a shitty ass plight. Putting your life on the line for a dysfunctional Frankenstein monster of a regime. Are these guys' story ever told?