Why Is Obama Waiting?

Members of Obama's own party are questioning his hesitancy of making massive air strikes to destroy the most notorious terror group of the 21st century ISIS or ISIL as President Obama refers to them.  Yes, the President is allowing limited air strikes in Iraq.  But, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have said that ISIS cannot be destroyed without going after ISIS in Syria.  That presents several problems.  Do we take the chance that President al-Assad of Syria will resist American military action in his country? 

Joe Biden: Taliban Is Not Our Enemy

Alleged Vice-President Joe Biden stated yesterday that the Taliban, yes, the Taliban is not the enemy of the United States.  Crazy Joe Biden said that the Taliban is only an enemy if "...it allows Al-Qaeda to strike at the U.S.  VP Biden went on to say that President Obama has never made any assertions that the Taliban is our enemy in any policy initiative.  This statement could be construed as simple posturing on the part of the Obama Administration in light of negotiations with the Taliban to bring an end to the war.  Only problem with that is the Taliban is denying it is in negotiations with the Afghan government and/or the U.S. government.  Another problem is that in any negotiations, the Taliban is going to want to exchange prisoners of war. That means the people in Guantanamo Bay are on the table in any ongoing negotiations.  This is something that many in the Department of Defense would be adamantly against. 

What is unusual about these negotiations is that the United States has a longstanding policy of never negotiating with terrorists.  Now, some will say that Joe Biden preempted that argument by stating the Taliban is not our enemy.  Ask yourself one question; If the Taliban is not the enemy of the USA, why did we invade that country (Afghanistan) in the first place? Don't give the standard liberal BS about it being due to George W. Bush being a warmonger.  Bush never had three or four wars going on at once as President Obama has done in his first term (hopefully, his last term). Of course, the Taliban is the enemy of the USA.  They gave safe refuge to Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda playmates of terror.  As former President George W. Bush stated after September 11, 2001;  "And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."   To my knowledge President Obama has not made it a policy to deviate from that position.  Until he does (which will not suprise me) then Joe Biden's latest buffoonery is flat-out wrong.   The Taliban is our enemy and will remain so for the foreseeable future.