A Presidential Device – Affirming Enduring Conflict

It should come as no surprise that the Government’s strategy, as formally expressed by the President via his primetime address, consists of Expanding Tactical Airstrikes, Arming Insurgents, Tactical Counter-Terrorism & Humanitarian Aid. However, I query, whether as a formal statement of strategy or policy, when hasn’t this been the Gov’ts practice?

In President Obama’s case however there is a significant point to be made and considered; he is quite at ease making speeches and provocative hyperbole, but his challenge is in the area of delivery and in the area of what is now conveniently known as “optics.” Given that Mr. Obama, more and more, exhibits the unmistakable air of indifferent-unwillingness it is more likely that all of this ISIS ballyhoo is nothing more than a Presidential device for addressing his miserable poll numbers and their weight on Democrats at-risk in the upcoming mid-terms.

All for one significant reason: he never made an effort to define an integrated strategy for addressing a far more significant problem; the cause of ISIS’s very existence.

The following are a select group of responses to questions/comments received after the original article was published. We believe you will find them of interest.

#1: The President once again (during his primetime address) assigned himself a right he does not possess; “…I have the authority to act”, speaking of his ability to engage in war, however he does not, only Congress has that authority. Again, he does have the Authority, as Commander-in-Chief, to “execute”, but he does not or has any President EVER had unilateral authority to “engage.”

Whether or not he knows this is beside the point; his purpose is petty narcissism. He follows his statement by claiming that he will “still” seek Congressional approval which in his manner of thought is merely to affirm Congress as subservient to his will. His venality seems to know no limits.

Cutis C. Greco, Founder

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