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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 10:53 AM Sep 2014

Do you agree with Elizabeth Warren that destroying ISIS should be our number one priority?


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2 (29%)
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5 (71%)
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Do you agree with Elizabeth Warren that destroying ISIS should be our number one priority? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 OP
No, and... Mike Nelson Sep 2014 #1
no the supreme court is leftyohiolib Sep 2014 #2
Not number one priority, but it's up there in the top five. BlueCaliDem Sep 2014 #3
Not even in the top ten. nt. BillZBubb Sep 2014 #4
Not even in the top 50. Scuba Sep 2014 #12
Probably not, but I'm not going to make a list that long to find out! BillZBubb Sep 2014 #17
Not necessarily, I think we need to encourage the middle east nations to work Autumn Sep 2014 #5
+1. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #6
Maybe if those people over there like Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia had a EDITED Autumn Sep 2014 #11
This is exactly what she said, if you read the Hill article... cascadiance Sep 2014 #14
They have killed two Americans recently in a pretty brutal fashion oberliner Sep 2014 #16
If Elizabeth can tell us what the plan is I am all for it. asjr Sep 2014 #7
No. That's blatant idiocracy. GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #8
Nope. Iggo Sep 2014 #9
ISUS edhopper Sep 2014 #10
Warren seems to not be the high intellect I once thought she was. Her speciality is attacking Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #13
Maybe not #1 but still pretty high on the list. moondust Sep 2014 #15
Hell no!! Initech Sep 2014 #18

Mike Nelson

(9,960 posts)
1. No, and...
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 10:55 AM
Sep 2014

...it sounds like she's considering running for President - this is something she would say if she was running...

Autumn

(45,109 posts)
5. Not necessarily, I think we need to encourage the middle east nations to work
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:11 AM
Sep 2014

together and take them out. The threat by ISIS is to them.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
6. +1.
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:15 AM
Sep 2014

We should provide some support to nations in the region fighting them, but not be the 'lead'. Encourage our 'allies' in the region to take greater leadership roles in their own neighbourhood.

Autumn

(45,109 posts)
11. Maybe if those people over there like Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia had a EDITED
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:39 AM
Sep 2014

common goal they might just be forced to get along. They live there, let them clean their own house.

Don't the guys in that picture look like they are all made up for a B movie?

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
14. This is exactly what she said, if you read the Hill article...
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 12:00 PM
Sep 2014
http://thehill.com/policy/international/216559-warren-destroying-isis-should-be-our-no-1-priority

"We can't get pulled into another war in the Middle East," she said. "We need to be working with others to close ISIS down."


Also, this is a typical trick to pull something out of context.

A number one priority RELATIVE TO WHAT? If it is a question about priorities in the middle east, or with even foreign policy issues, then it still doesn't necessarily deflect from a belief of hers that higher priorities overall should be to get Wall Street and corporate accountability and rebuilding the middle class. But media wouldn't leave that part out now would it? The corporate media? Huh?

Voting a pass here as I don't think we have enough information here, and that smells as something intentional on someone's part.
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
16. They have killed two Americans recently in a pretty brutal fashion
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 12:05 PM
Sep 2014

They are definitely a threat to any American who ventures to that part of the world.

Especially those who try to report on what they are doing.

asjr

(10,479 posts)
7. If Elizabeth can tell us what the plan is I am all for it.
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:17 AM
Sep 2014

We have so many " must dos" hanging around our necks it will take someone as smart as E. I also wish we could find a way to sue our Congress for the reckless play they have been giving us on D.C. If this was another country I believe they would have been run out of town. Between now and election all Democrats should be getting the message out. VOTE for Democrats!

edhopper

(33,591 posts)
10. ISUS
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:26 AM
Sep 2014

will never do the damage that the 1% with the cooperation of the Government has done to the middle class.
That should be our #1 priority.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
13. Warren seems to not be the high intellect I once thought she was. Her speciality is attacking
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:59 AM
Sep 2014

WallStreet, vital enough, but her other credentials?.....

A President has to be a generalist, Warren appears to be an outstanding specialist.

moondust

(19,993 posts)
15. Maybe not #1 but still pretty high on the list.
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 12:04 PM
Sep 2014

It's usually best to excise a cancer early, before it grows and becomes incurable.

Initech

(100,081 posts)
18. Hell no!!
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 01:32 PM
Sep 2014

We have tons of problems here before we start throwing another couple trillion we don't have at the military industrial complex who will most likely just waste it.

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