The New York Times recently released a piece titled "Paths to War, Then and Now, Haunt Obama" in which journalist Peter Baker reveals Obama's mindset prior to his ISIS/ISIL speech broadcast to the country on the eve of 9-11. Desperate in retaining the "blame-Bush card," President Obama has carefully deliberated on how to thwart and control terrorist expansion and atrocities in the Middle East while avoiding what he believes to have been mistakes by the previous administration.
According to Baker,
He was acutely aware that the operation he was about to embark on would not solve the larger issues in that region by the time he left office. “This will be a problem for the next president,” Mr. Obama said ruefully, “and probably the one after that.” But he alternated between resolve as he vowed to retaliate against President Bashar al-Assad if Syrian forces shot at American planes, and prickliness as he mocked critics of his more reticent approach to the exercise of American power.This insight proves that the president does not intend to "destroy" ISIS as his speechwriters and teleprompter have recently claimed. Obama is more concerned with the perception of him as president and his imagined legacy than striking hard to eradicate this evil that threatens all of humanity. This article is a scary look into the mind of the current leader of the once perceived most powerful nation on earth.
That awkward moment when the President of the United States pretends he's an ISIS terrorist. pic.twitter.com/XHGBkscBSE
— S.M (@redsteeze) September 14, 2014
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