Obama Scheduled to Speak at Either 4:45PM or When He Finds Those Cute Gloves in the Pro Shop He Wanted to Pick Up

Allah speculated he'd be speaking about the bombing in Iraq and probably more about al-Maliki's coup. Obama has been insistent that he won't aid Iraq's government until someone replaces al-Maliki as PM.

I wonder a lot about that prioritization. I read many people claiming that Maliki has governed in a contemptuously sectarian manner (reminds me of someone else I know), and hence has encouraged the Sunnis to join the ISIS rebellion.

I believe these people -- I have nothing to contradict them with.

Still... it seems very strange that we haven't aided Iraq during these past couple of months because of this particular priority.

ISIS is not merely the enemy of Iraq -- they are the enemy of the US.

I don't question the notion that we'd've rather had a better leader in Iraq. I question prioritizing that goal above killing a lot of ISIS fighters.

Let's be clear-eyed here: The more ISIS fighters who die now, the less terrorism we'll have in the next twenty years.

These people are not going back to shepherding. They like killing. Killing gets them off, and I do mean that in the sexual sense. No one who does this much bloody slaughter is doing so for purely political reasons.

Of course, at this point, the Maliki Question is sort of mooted, as Maliki clearly needs to go.

And yet we have ISIS in, presumably, massed formations... and yet we're not killing them yet.

Pope Francis gets it.

Update: Telling quote from Shep Smith: "The signal is weak, but here is the President."

posted by Ace at 04:46 PM

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