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ISIS manipulates President Obama into military response Economy Watch
"Before he took office, President Barack Obama predicted that war in Iraq would recruit more terrorists to the jihadist cause. Now he is US leader, Obama has neglected to heed his own warnings.
The Sunni jihadist group ISIS has cleverly manipulated the US Government’s actions using social media channels. The terrorists calculated that uploading videos of the beheadings of two US journalists and a British aid worker onto the internet would provoke a disproportionate military response from the West. Right on cue, President Barack Obama reacted by vowing to fight ISIS “by any means necessary”. Vice President Joe Biden went further, declaring the intent to chase the group to the “gates of hell”. What followed played out according to a well-worn script. The US intensified its aerial bombardments against ISIS in an area the size of Great Britain. And, naturally, the UK signed up as the major US ally on the bombing missions. "
Obama did a similar thing with Libya, under pressure from the right he went in and attacked a country that he should have left alone. He's making the situation worse, he'll be criticised by the right no matter what he does anyway, so he might as well do the right thing and be criticised and stay away from ISIS.
"Before he took office, President Barack Obama predicted that war in Iraq would recruit more terrorists to the jihadist cause. Now he is US leader, Obama has neglected to heed his own warnings.
The Sunni jihadist group ISIS has cleverly manipulated the US Government’s actions using social media channels. The terrorists calculated that uploading videos of the beheadings of two US journalists and a British aid worker onto the internet would provoke a disproportionate military response from the West. Right on cue, President Barack Obama reacted by vowing to fight ISIS “by any means necessary”. Vice President Joe Biden went further, declaring the intent to chase the group to the “gates of hell”. What followed played out according to a well-worn script. The US intensified its aerial bombardments against ISIS in an area the size of Great Britain. And, naturally, the UK signed up as the major US ally on the bombing missions. "
Obama did a similar thing with Libya, under pressure from the right he went in and attacked a country that he should have left alone. He's making the situation worse, he'll be criticised by the right no matter what he does anyway, so he might as well do the right thing and be criticised and stay away from ISIS.
