Obama's ISIS Core Coalition is Rotting out before it even Begins

By Elizabeth N

Obama announced last week, just days after he announced to the world, and our enemies, that "we don't have a strategy," that his "core coalition," his dream team - as you will - would consist of 10 countries, aiming to gain the Middle Eastern Countries before the next UN security council meeting but already including the US, UK, France and Australia. 

However, now that Obama has given his rather daft "we're sending even more 'non-combat, humanitarian and advisory only boots"[shades of Vietnam, don't shoot back, when shot at. But wait, is anyone keeping track? That makes more than 1,000 boots on the ground.  

Now the UK and France are starting to get squirmy in their resolve and they just don't think "a bomb here and a bomb there" are going to do the trick in "destroying ISIS". "A Pep talk isn't a strategy." Heck, a lot of our Senators feel the same way, but can we really blame them, Obama doesn't enter wars to win them, but knowing his allegiances, do we expect him to; "if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand". He is a self-professed Muslim, as the majority of us understand and he is on their side, after all.  As family, aren't we happy when our family members win, even when we are on the losing end of the game?

British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande, the leaders of Europe's main military powers, told Obama in private meetings that Washington had to do more than simply order air strikes on IS targets in Iraq and needed an overall strategy, European officials said.

"It can’t be just ‘let’s go and bomb a few targets and see what happens’," said one Western defense official familiar with the talks between the allied leaders. France said this week it was ready to engage in all aspects of the fight against IS, including potentially military action. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Friday that London had not yet decided on any involvement in air strikes.

A British official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "There is a growing sense that this is going to take more than we are doing... but it needs to be a measured, cautious approach." Read more Reuters

Now, Britain is no stranger to terrorists or extremist Islam, but watch and listen to the tone of Prime Minister Cameron, a real leader, as he reacts to the beheading of Foley.  First, I'll mention that he canceled his vacation and returned to work.  I'll also have you notice how he's handling his people defecting from his country, with their passports, and the threat of their returning to make good on their terror threats, because ISIS isn't just a real threat to us but to our allies.

That role will probably be defined by Jerusalem’s ability to provide rapid and precise intelligence support to the US-led military forces charged with making air strikes on Islamic State positions. Israeli defense officials will not publicly confirm any plans to provide aid to the emerging war effort. Over recent months, IDF Military Intelligence has grown by more than a thousand personnel to enable it to track the growing jihadi presence in neighboring Syria.  

So, the message we're getting is, if we aren't willing to "die for the cause," why is anyone else going to send their sons, daughters and husbands to die, especially when it's Obama doing the asking?

You see, Obama and even a few in our Senate - like Rand Paul - have this isolationist view that all of the world's problems are because America has always been the one to step in and solve everyone else's problems, so they've decided to take a stance of speak softly, but drop the big stick and step out of the "fix-it" business. It didn't take us long to see the effect of an absent America.

We watched Syria gases their people, Boko Haram's kidnapping of almost 3,000 girls and their murdering entire villages and then they merge with ISIS - who is now a well funded technical army. Then we watch Hamas bombing Israel at will, Putin is invading and taking whatever he wants and then sending a not so veiled threats of nuclear war, if we mess with him. Iran is thumbing their nose at us. China encroaches upon Japan's airspace, space that used to be common ground. 

So, how is your isolationism foreign policy working for you, Mr. Obama? The world can't say, "it's all America's fault, because we are nowhere to be found, and we have you to thank for that. Now we see what the world would look like without America, the Super Power-less in it