Thread: Obama Defends Not Saying 'Radical Islam': 'What Would That Accomplish?'

Obama Defends Not Saying 'Radical Islam': 'What Would That Accomplish?'

"Not once has an adviser of mine said, 'Man, if we use that phrase, we are going to turn this whole thing around,' not once."

6.14.2016 NewsTiffany Gabbay

Not to be outdone by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump -- who in a powerful homeland security speech on Monday laid waste to the progressive ideology that has enabled Islamic terrorism to proliferate on our shores -- President Obama defended his refusal to use the terms "Islamic terrorism" and "radical Islam."

The disgraced Washington Post characterized Obama's speech as "his most forceful rebuttal to Trump since the real estate mogul became the presumptive GOP presidential nominee."
Sure.

During his speech, delivered on Tuesday, Obama continued to use the acronym ISIL instead of ISIS as he doubled down on his refusal to say the term "radical Islam":

And let me make a final point. For a while now, the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have made in the fight against ISIL is to criticize the administration and me for not using the phrase “radical Islam.” That’s the key, they tell us. We cannot beat ISIL unless we call them radical Islamists.

What exactly would using this label would accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to try to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this?

The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction.

No, the real political distraction is in calling the worst Islamic terror attack in U.S. history since 9/11 a "mass shooting" related to America's "obsession with guns." And no one ever said that calling Islamic terrorism what it is would, of itself, make the threat go away. The point is that Obama refuses to acknowledge that Islamic ideology is what drives our enemy, and that is the beginning of understanding how to confront and defeat them at home and abroad. Seven years of Obama's constant deflection of blame from Islam has done nothing to make jihad "go away," as he put it. The left's unwillingness to talk about it is in itself a major victory for the forces of Islamic fundamentalism.

"There has not been a moment in my 7.5 years as president where we have not able to pursue a strategy because we didn’t use the label 'radical Islam,'" Obama said.

"Not once has an adviser of mine said, 'Man, if we use that phrase, we are going to turn this whole thing around,' not once."

Given the advisers Obama keeps company with, we're fairly certain of that.

Obama Defends Not Saying 'Radical Islam': 'What Would That Accomplish?'

Obama Defends Not Saying 'Radical Islam': 'What Would That Accomplish?'

It would show the world the President of the United States isn't afraid to call a spade a spade.

And the term isn't "Radical Islam", the term is "Radical Islamic Terrorism."

These are terrorists, ruthless killers and murderers, trying to take over our country in the name of their religion by terrorizing and killing our people.

Question: During WWII when the federal government rounded up Japanese in the United States and put them in interment camps to avoid treason, infiltration and spying was a hard thing to do and was clearly unfair to many Japanese Americans. But, for the purpose intended, would we have won the war without doing so? It's a question we may never know the answer to other than the American People with the policies enacted during WWII won this horrific unprecedented world war fought on 2 fronts in 3 years and 8 months, an achievement we have yet to repeat since.

Something for all the Monday Quarterbacks to consider.

Something the Japanese Americans need to consider is was being in an interment camp safe within the United States with your family better or worse during WWII than being in a fox hole in Germany or left in an ocean floating on debris being eaten by sharks because to save you from your sinking ship would have alerted the enemy to the whereabouts of our Navy?

Something else for the Civil Rights Advocates to consider.

Why were Japanese Americans awarded reparations for the short stint they spent in nice, safe internment camps during WWII before the descendants of American Slaves whose families spent generations in the horror of American Slavery who have yet to be paid a dime to this day?

And what about the German and Italians who were also put in internment camps during WWII? No one even talks about them. Maybe most Americans don't know about that?

http://www.thc.state.tx.us/preserve/...an-and-italian

So many questions, so few answers.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters Goes On MUST-SEE Rant…Tears Obama Limb From Limb Like Nobody Has Before

Obama "doesn't seem to learn..."

Norvell Rose June 13, 2016 at 12:39pm

Talk about connecting the dots — or in this case the blood stains — in a direct, deliberate and damning way.

That’s what Fox News Strategic Analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters has just done — linking the weekend bloodbath in a Florida nightclub with Barack Obama’s repeated refusal to identify radical Islamic terrorism as the evil enemy of America and the rest of the civilized West.

President Obama’s “failure to do the essential things that had to be done led us directly to this tragic massacre of Americans in Orlando,” declared the retired Army officer.

Charging that Obama “doesn’t seem to learn anything, ever,” Peters told Fox Business host Stuart Varney:

“Here’s a president, who, after almost eight years in office, still can’t say the words Islamist terror or radical Islam, and it matters, and here’s why it matters.”

“How can you declare war on an enemy you won’t even name? And we need a declaration of war against radical jihadi groups. That enables us to do many things.”

A strident critic of Obama’s foreign policy and war-fighting strategy, Lt. Col. Peters laid it on the line, in blunt and brutal language, saying that identifying and targeting Islamists as the bad guys is essential. When asked about Secretary of State John Kerry warning the worst thing to do would be to point fingers at “one religion or another” in the wake of the Orlando terror attack, Peters took dead aim at Kerry’s politically correct posturing.

“I guess we should worry about bloodthirsty Unitarians, right? And how about rampaging Catholics? And Jews going into kindergartens and crying, ‘This one’s for Yahweh?’” the Fox News analyst said with dripping sarcasm. “It doesn’t happen like that…. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but virtually all terrorists are Muslims today.”

Earlier Monday, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump doubled down on his call for President Obama to resign immediately because of his dangerous refusal to say the three words “radical Islamic terrorism” — because he failed to declare that is the real global danger that led to the massacre in the Pulse nightclub.
By clicking on the video below, courtesy of the Washington Free Beacon, you can watch Ralph Peters basically agree with Trump — that Obama is “the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time.”


http://www.tpnn.com/2016/06/13/lt-co...b-like-nobody/

Looks like certain people are coming forth with the criticism of Obama that he deserves.