President Obama likes to blame others for creating “recruitment tools” for the terrorists, when his lack of action telegraphs a weakness to Al Qaeda and ISIS.
President Obama’s continuing denial of ISIS advances telegraphs a weakness that is the “real” recruitment tool. (usnews.com)
This week, with Paris still reeling from ISIS attacks and the French president in Washington seeking help, President Obama sent terrorists a message sure to have them shaking in their sandals. Speaking of the up–coming summit on climate change in Paris, he said “What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be, when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.” Talk about a “recruitment tool.”
You will recall that it began while campaigning for his first term when he pledged to close our detention facility at Guantanamo, calling it a “recruitment tool for terrorists.”
President Obama is at it again, pushing his flawed “recruitment tool for terrorists” theory on us when it is his weakness that has allowed terrorists to continue their war on the civilized world.
For years the president has been telling us he had the terrorists on the run. He failed to act when the line he drew on chemical weapons was crossed by Syria. He called ISIS “jayvees.” He said ISIS was contained. All messages to terrorists that he isn’t serious about defeating them.
On Nov. 19, he ridiculously tied the view of some, that we should only welcome Christian refugees from Syria to the existence of Guantanamo saying that it “alienates Muslims the same way Guantanamo has for years,” adding the detention center has been an “enormous recruitment tool” for extremists.
During his tirade against the Republican presidential candidates who oppose his plan to accept 10,000 or more Syrian refugees on Nov. 17, he criticized them saying their rhetoric is “a potent recruitment tool” for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. “I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL, than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate,” he stated.
There’s more. On Nov. 23, during his press conference in Kuala Lumpur, he sounded off against the media. Referring to his “difficult week,” he told the media they needed to help him, essentially telling them how to report the terrorist situation.
“(Reporting),” he said, “has to maintain perspective and not empower in any way those terrorist organizations or elevate them in ways that make it easier for them to recruit or make them stronger.”
“Here he’s telling the media, in other words, to do what he’s doing: ignore it, downplay it, don’t even discuss it, discuss what’s important to me and my narrative,” commented columnist/commentator Tammy Bruce.
Every time President Obama denies that ISIS is an Islamic radical group, and that they are gaining ground, he is their best recruitment tool
