re: Obama Delayed James Foley Rescue a Month, Fretting over His Image and Golfing

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You probably don't have 2 dimes to rub together so yeah, focus on spelling.

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Is that what you need to believe in order to feel better about yourself?

What, we ran out of High Ranking Detainees to swap?

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Obama Delayed James Foley Rescue a Month, Fretting over His Image and Golfing

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I told yall it was held up at the White House. Then when the coast is clear, he goes in so later they can say we missed him by a few days.

Ob is one evil motherfricker.

Rex hasn't mentioned how great things are for minority employment yet?

Because White House Jesus cares.



And by the way he took a month to make that call to rescue that failed. Did anyone mention that The Coward in Chief had to be shoved into the Bin Laden raid yet, because he couldn't make that decision either? Dear Leader has failed.

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Is this the scandal that you hope will take the place of the Benghazi fizzle?


I apologize for White House Jesus not being able to make a decision. White House Jesus has the Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to shite

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Eh.. He'd have to really screw up in the next two years to be worse than Reagan (I guess he could sell the Taliban a bunch of weapons then use the money to arm ISIL that and running like a punk would be Reagan solution) much less sink to W's level.

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I'm sorry but Obama is a dumb pretentious arse I fear for my children

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Are they prisoners in Syria?

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According to a new Sunday Times report by Toby Harden, "Pentagon sources said Foley and the others might well have been rescued but Obama, concerned about the ramifications of US troops being killed or captured in Syria, took too long to authorise the mission."

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Obama being concerned about the ramifications of US troops being killed or captured in Syria is somehow a problem? Really?
I, for one, would damn well share his concern.

The author does not understand that concern?
Really?
He does not share that concern?

What would be a higher decapitation prize: a journalist, or a US service man?
I'd suspect the latter.

Foley's death is horrible, but so would be the death of any soldier(s) rescuing him. Given the limited amount of info, I'm willing to give the C-in-C a pass on this one.

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Positively. The stock market has more than doubled, health care is available to almost everyone, 60 straight months of positive job growth, no major terrorist attacks against the USA, Bin Laden killed... all that despite Republican obstructionism.

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Troll GOAT

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Oh cmon. If he goes ahead with the raid and soldiers die, he would have been crucified.

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maybe, but leaders make tough decisions regardless of the consequences. It appears to me he makes the decisions based on the safest political outcome not the whether or not it is the right thing to do.

If you remember he passed on OBL twice before Garrett convinced him to go ahead with the plan to take him out.

It would not surprise me if he passed on rescuing Foley until he needed some positive political gain. When that time came the intel was outdated.

Sometimes leaders have to make unpopular decisions and be willing to suffer the consequences. Obama seems to make the safest possible political decisions on foreign policies. He is reactive and not proactive. Why in the world would the white house even release the failed rescue attempt of Foley? Because it was more important for Obama to look like he at least tried to rescue him. In Obama's mind intentions are more important than results.