Despite Paris, Obama rejects calls for shift in ISIS fight

[book_worm]

President Barack Obama on Monday firmly rejected calls for a shift in U.S. strategy against the Islamic State following the Paris attacks, saying Republicans who want to send ground troops into the volatile region are "talking as if they're tough" but fail to understand the potentially grave consequences.

"Folks want to pop off and have opinions about what they think they would do," Obama said in a news conference wrapping up a two-day summit of world leaders in Turkey. "If they think that somehow their advisers are better than the chairman of my Joint Chiefs of Staff and the folks who are actually on the ground, I want to meet them. And we can have that debate."

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The GOP and the MSM will go after Obama on this too, but at least we have a president who is intelligent enough to make plain the obvious.

[randys1]

1. I am glad the President is calling out the "tough" talking batshit crazy Muslim haters.

The real question is what do we do, or dont do.

I dont know the answer either but of all the people in charge of the answer, Obama is by far preferable over many possibilities

[vadermike]

2. great

The public agrees with the President to not send ground troops in by a large margin so the GOP can scream all they want.. they are wrong and they know it