What The Hell Is Wrong With Obama? It's Time To Encourage Our Boys To Fight ISIS

[Steve_McGarrett]

Our country needs to be made proud again. We need leaders and inspiration to bring our boys into battle. Our enemies need to be defeated. We need ISIS defeated on the movie screen too. Obama should be promoting this. For example, go to 1:20 in the clip to the end( just 10 minutes) and watch an inspirational icon led the way.

 

[irosie91]

Obama promised to bring the boys home

 

[waltky]

If ya remember...

... Obama campaigned on gettin' our troops outta the Mid-east...

... he don't wanna seem all...

... hippity-hoppity, flippity-floppity.

 

[S.J.]

Duh, he doesn't want us to win.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Our country needs to be made proud again. We need leaders and inspiration to bring our boys into battle. Our enemies need to be defeated. We need ISIS defeated on the movie screen too. Obama should be promoting this. For example, go to 1:20 in the clip to the end( just 10 minutes) and watch an inspirational icon led the way.

Get off your ass and enlist.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Duh, he doesn't want us to win.

ISIS is being defeated and the US has lost 3 soldiers killed in combat. Three.

You want what? 30? 300? 3000? Of course you do, mainly so you could use it politically against Obama.

 

[there4eyeM]

Pride for pride's sake? Fake jingoistic 'patriotism'? There's been far too much of that.

Pride is greatly overrated, and definitely 'goeth before a fall'.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Pride for pride's sake? Fake jingoistic 'patriotism'? There's been far too much of that.

Pride is greatly overrated, and definitely 'goeth before a fall'.

The OP brings to mind the character of Kantorek in All Quiet on the Western Front:

"Kantorek

Though he is not central to the novel’s plot, Kantorek is an important figure as a focus of Remarque’s bitter critique of the ideals of patriotism and nationalism that drove nations into the catastrophe of World War I.

Kantorek, the teacher who filled his students’ heads with passionate rhetoric about duty and glory, serves as a punching bag as Remarque argues against those ideals. Though a modern context is essential to the indictment of Kantorek’s patriotism and nationalism, Kantorek’s physical description groups him with premodern evil characters. The fierce and pompous Kantorek is a small man described as “energetic and uncompromising,” characteristics that recall the worried Caesar’s remarks about Cassius in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. / He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous” (I.ii.195–196). Napoleon also springs to mind as a historical model for Kantorek.

The inclusion of a seemingly anachronistic literary type—the scheming or dangerous diminutive man—may seem out of place in a modern novel. Yet this quality of Kantorek arguably reflects the espousal of dated ideas by an older generation of leaders who betray their followers with manipulations, ignorance, and lies.

“While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing,” Paul writes in Chapter One, “we already knew that death-throes are stronger.”

As schoolboys, Paul and his friends believed that Kantorek was an enlightened man whose authority derived from his wisdom; as soldiers, they quickly learn to see through Kantorek’s rhetoric and grow to despise him, especially after the death of Joseph Behm. That Kantorek is eventually drafted and makes a terrible soldier reflects the uselessness of the ideals that he touts."

SparkNotes: All Quiet on the Western Front: Analysis of Major Characters

 

[S.J.]

Duh, he doesn't want us to win.

ISIS is being defeated and the US has lost 3 soldiers killed in combat. Three.

You want what? 30? 300? 3000? Of course you do, mainly so you could use it politically against Obama.

3 Out of 4 U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan Occurred Under Obama

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Duh, he doesn't want us to win.

ISIS is being defeated and the US has lost 3 soldiers killed in combat. Three.

You want what? 30? 300? 3000? Of course you do, mainly so you could use it politically against Obama.

Collateral damage and sacrifice must be encouraged to stignify patriotism in order to defeat the enemy. The movie in the OP is a perfect example.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Duh, he doesn't want us to win.

ISIS is being defeated and the US has lost 3 soldiers killed in combat. Three.

You want what? 30? 300? 3000? Of course you do, mainly so you could use it politically against Obama.

3 Out of 4 U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan Occurred Under Obama

You're in the wrong thread. This about ISIS. But thanks for proving my point.

 

[S.J.]

Duh, he doesn't want us to win.

ISIS is being defeated and the US has lost 3 soldiers killed in combat. Three.

You want what? 30? 300? 3000? Of course you do, mainly so you could use it politically against Obama.

3 Out of 4 U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan Occurred Under Obama

You're in the wrong thread. This about ISIS. But thanks for proving my point.

How many died fighting ISIS under Bush?

 

[irosie91]

If ya remember...

... Obama campaigned on gettin' our troops outta the Mid-east...

... he don't wanna seem all...

... hippity-hoppity, flippity-floppity.

Obama is doing the best he can----he should have become a professor of law at Harvard

 

[Geaux4it]

Obama is an abject failure on many levels. A complete POS

-Geaux

 

[irosie91]

Obama is an abject failure on many levels. A complete POS

-Geaux

he is not a POS-----he is very intelligent, and speaks beautifully. He should have become a professor of law at Harvard-----

 

[Geaux4it]

Obama is an abject failure on many levels. A complete POS

-Geaux

he is not a POS-----he is very intelligent, and speaks beautifully. He should have become a professor of law at Harvard-----

Um, OK

-Geaux

 

[initforme]

The patriotic mumbo jumbo is clearly overrated. I'm sure folk are hung ho to send in more troops. Not.