Name ONE BIG THING a terrorist has ever blown up in the US

[Locutus]

Susan Rice defends Obama's foreign policy: U.S. not facing 'existential' threats

OK, two.


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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said Friday that President Obama’s Washington critics often lack “perspective” and that the U.S. no longer faces threats akin to World War II.


“Too often, what’s missing here in Washington is a sense of perspective. Yes, there is a lot going on. Still, while the dangers we face may be more numerous and varied, they are not of the existential nature we confronted during World War II or during the Cold War,” Ms. Rice said at the Brookings Institution in Washington, The Hill reported.


The Obama administration released its new national security strategy Friday, which in part shifted the focus from destroying the Islamic State group to “a comprehensive effort to degrade and ultimately defeat” it.


Ms. Rice said the White House would pursue a “comprehensive approach” to its counterterrorism efforts, with a caveat that “there will be setbacks,” The Hill reported.


The ambassador will appear Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to talk with host Chuck Todd about the president’s new foreign policy.






Susan Rice defends Obama's foreign policy: U.S. not facing 'existential' threats - Washington Times

 

[SLM]

Name ONE BIG THING a terrorist has ever blown up in the US

Oh that was an inside job, dontcha know? :roll:


Sigh. So tired of political rhetoric and appeasement. ISIS needs to be stopped, period. They a danger to the people within the nations they reside, people who mostly just want to live their lives in a relative peace, they are a danger to their neigbouring nations, and if left completely unchecked become a danger and a threat to world as a whole.



Or maybe all the beheading videos they upload to YouTube themselves are all photoshopped. :roll:

 

[WLDB]

ISIS needs to be stopped, period. They a danger to the people within the nations they reside, people who mostly just want to live their lives in a relative peace, they are a danger to their neigbouring nations, and if left completely unchecked become a danger and a threat to world as a whole.



Or maybe all the beheading videos they upload to YouTube themselves are all photoshopped. :roll:

I dont disagree but there are groups like that doing the exact same thing much closer to home that we pretty much ignore. We leave it to the locals with those groups. Same should be the case here. The west's presence is just used by other groups to recruit more people to fight the west. Take out one group and another pops up.

 

[Sal]

I dont disagree but there are groups like that doing the exact same thing much closer to home that we pretty much ignore. We leave it to the locals with those groups. Same should be the case here. The west's presence is just used by other groups to recruit more people to fight the west. Take out one group and another pops up.

yes I am leaning more and more toward, everyone look after their own borders and country, from a terrorist perspective, concentrate on that, if we can have a 95% or higher success rate there, we are good to go. work with other countries on that and stay the hell out of other countries and their business, go back to being peace makers

 

[Walter]

I dont disagree but there are groups like that doing the exact same thing much closer to home that we pretty much ignore. We leave it to the locals with those groups. Same should be the case here. The west's presence is just used by other groups to recruit more people to fight the west. Take out one group and another pops up.

I agree. Look at all the Nazi groups that are flourishing today since they were crushed in '45 and all those Nippon groups which just won't relinquish those Pacific islands.

 

[taxslave]

yes I am leaning more and more toward, everyone look after their own borders and country, from a terrorist perspective, concentrate on that, if we can have a 95% or higher success rate there, we are good to go. work with other countries on that and stay the hell out of other countries and their business, go back to being peace makers

That would mean just letting Russia steamroller Ukraine and all the Stans with immunity.

 

[MHz]

Their chance of becoming Mayor of some rural community without spreading a few pallets of money around.

 

[Sal]

That would mean just letting Russia steamroller Ukraine and all the Stans with immunity.

we're fighting Russians?

 

[MHz]

That would mean just letting Russia steamroller Ukraine and all the Stans with immunity.

No pot-holes, . . those poor, poor people. It comes with a gas discount coupon until some alternative lines are open. War slowed that down as you can't have peace breaking out all over the place before the world is ready for it.

 

[taxslave]

we're fighting Russians?

Ukraine is which means we should be.

No pot-holes, . . those poor, poor people. It comes with a gas discount coupon until some alternative lines are open. War slowed that down as you can't have peace breaking out all over the place before the world is ready for it.

You may have something there. Currently war is the only viable method of population control we have.

 

[MHz]

we're fighting Russians?

Just in the headlines, you don't blatantly attack the guy with his hands on the NG valves, anytime, let alone in the dead of winter.
What else did they 'chat about' as the economy is also crashing for the ones in the EU applying sanctions against Russia and no deals are being inked, that hurts in the future.

(in part)
Relations between Russia and the European Union have been strained following Crimea's reunification with Russia that pushed Brussels and Washington to impose sanctions against Russia and freeze a raft of partnership deals.
Lavrov cited the US-led anti-missile shield project in Eastern Europe as an example where EU leaders surrendered the ideal of transparent European security for the sake of "illusions and convictions of Cold War winners".
Russia has repeatedly expressed concern over the creation of an US anti-ballistic missile system in Eastern Europe, which NATO claims is aimed primarily at countering threats from North Korea and Iran.
Russian fears of a NATO buildup on its borders were stoked earlier this week after Brussels gave NATO a go-ahead to set up six new command and control units in Eastern Europe close to the Russian border. Moscow said it would make "adequate" changes in the country's military planning.
Speaking at the Munich conference, Merkel sought to allay Russia's fears claiming the West was striving to build security in Europe together with Russia and not against it.

Read more: Russia-EU Strategic Partnership Failed Stress Test - Lavrov / Sputnik International

German Business Hopes for End to EU Sanctions Against Russia / Sputnik International
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[Sal]

Ukraine is which means we should be.

why is that?

 

[taxslave]

why is that?

Because they do not have the means to defend themselves against a major bully like Russia. Putin has expansionist dreams that must be stopped.

 

[petros]

Oh that was an inside job, dontcha know? :roll:

The first time (parking garage) was.

Oklahoma was blowed up, that makes 911 the third.

 

[Sal]

Because they do not have the means to defend themselves against a major bully like Russia. Putin has expansionist dreams that must be stopped.

So you believe we should declare war on Russia and be sending Canadian troops over to fight?

And we are going to do this for humanitarian reasons correct?

 

[JLM]

Wouldn't two W.T.C. towers, the Pentagon and 4 planes all in one day qualify?

So you believe we should declare war on Russia and be sending Canadian troops over to fight?

And we are going to do this for humanitarian reasons correct?

We probably shouldn't be starting anything new! I think everyone should get involved in annihilating ISIS and then go back to minding their own business.

 

[Sal]

Wouldn't two W.T.C. towers, the Pentagon and 4 planes all in one day qualify?



We probably shouldn't be starting anything new! I think everyone should get involved in annihilating ISIS and then go back to minding their own business.

and is that viable or only controllable...because I am beginning to believe only controllable

 

[BaalsTears]

Obama calls his foreign policy doctrine "Strategic Patience." Can anyone point to an historical antecedent for such a doctrine?

 

[darkbeaver]

So you believe we should declare war on Russia and be sending Canadian troops over to fight?

And we are going to do this for humanitarian reasons correct?

Yes it certainly would be for humanitarian reasons. I don't think the humans or the reason are the ones you mean though.

Because they do not have the means to defend themselves against a major bully like Russia. Putin has expansionist dreams that must be stopped.

This is true they don't have the means. They can't even handle the separitist east. Russia dosn't have to get involved as western Ukraine is a bust already, the place is full of alien interventionists, it's just another banker occupied mess. As far as your second sentence goes I hope you realize we in the west will have to expand, following the expansionist handbook, to curtail any Russian expansion into Ukraine using the same weapons and manpower doubling the destruction of that hopeless mess. Some Ukrainians may even be saved. The fertile soil is being maintained however.

 

[gerryh]

I dont disagree but there are groups like that doing the exact same thing much closer to home that we pretty much ignore. We leave it to the locals with those groups. Same should be the case here. The west's presence is just used by other groups to recruit more people to fight the west. Take out one group and another pops up.

yes I am leaning more and more toward, everyone look after their own borders and country, from a terrorist perspective, concentrate on that, if we can have a 95% or higher success rate there, we are good to go. work with other countries on that and stay the hell out of other countries and their business, go back to being peace makers

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”