Re: US Presidential Election 2016
Reply #420 –
That's a typical Fox News segment, though, and the sort of nonsense I've been talking about. At least Andrea Tarantaros got the bullet, but it had nothing to do with her twisted views. The gossip is that a book deal she struck ran foul of Roger Ailes, the all-powerful boss of Fox News.
The theme of that segment is repeated many times a day on Fox News and Trump is firmly on the bandwagon. Obama is a very rational guy - he's very much like Mr Spock. He is of the belief that a key to confronting terrorists is to avoid being drawn into incendiary reactions, whether in words or military actiouns. What Fox News wants him to do is to declare a Holy War against Radical Islamic TerrorTM and blow a lot of crap up in the Middle East. Many counter-terrorism and Middle East experts agree with Obama's approach as it doesn't create the impression of the US attacking Muslims which ISIS can use as a recruiting tool. But to Fox News and Trump, this can only be a sign that Obama is a secret Muslim who is either soft on terrorism or complicit in it.
The US approach to dealing with threats these days, especially Islamic ones, is via undercover operations via organisations such as SOCOM, use of drones, air strikes etc., and assination of leadership figures. Large scale boots on the ground operations are conducted by local forces as we have just seen in Fallujah. It's all pretty low profile and not something they want to draw a lot of media attention to.