I kind of like how Obama is handling this. Word on the street, is that he almost has the whole world in a coalition for this thing. Incredibly, it looks like Saudi Arabia is going to let us use their country as the launching pad for many operations. Obama has pulled together Islamic countries this time, as well as the west...to start this business of degrading ISIS.
Well, if he MUST go to war...as he really doesn't want to do...I think he's showing you how it's supposed to be done!
DIG IT!
I hope you're right. I was assuming that he's been compiling a long list of coalition partners for this, but I was also assuming he'd list them during the speech. All he really mentioned was the Iraqi "army" (the one the ran when ISIS first showed up) and the Syrian rebels (?). Holy crap, that didn't inspire a lot of confidence. Maybe he kept everything simple and vague on purpose, which would make sense.
The proof is in the pudding, and I'm hoping for the best. I'm not seeing anyone claim that air strikes alone will do the job, so there has to be some kind of covert ground strategy.
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