Obama stresses air power against Islamic State in speech http://t.co/2I7Cq2F5ih pic.twitter.com/06Pjk9UCka
— Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa) September 11, 2014
Obama: "We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq."
— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) September 11, 2014
Although US military personnel on ground in Iraq as advisers, senior admin official says American troops won't go to Syria.
— Jim Acosta (@JimAcostaCNN) September 11, 2014
That was a general call for intervention.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 11, 2014
OMG. Sorry. But OMG. That was a strategy? Without achievable goals, timeline, detail of coalition, nature of commitment?
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) September 11, 2014
Obama: We need to stop flow of foreign fighters to Middle East. Obama: We are sending foreign fighters to Middle East
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) September 11, 2014
Past US efforts to train Iraqi forces were a dismal failure on a large scale. How will smaller effort announced by Obama today do better?
— Stephen Walt (@stephenWalt) September 11, 2014
Obama told me in February that the Syrian rebels he now wants to support weren't good at fighting.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 11, 2014
Obama: We have conducted more than 150 successful airstrikes in Iraq pic.twitter.com/EZOgNOGX2X
— Defense One (@DefenseOne) September 11, 2014
If ISIS actually succeeds in hitting American targets, I'm sure we'll be revisiting the no-combat-troop ruling.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 11, 2014
Well that speech boldly ducked all the hard questions.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 11, 2014
Striking how some defining Bush terrorist language — homeland, evil — has been absorbed by Obama when he talks about this issue.
— adam nagourney (@adamnagourney) September 11, 2014
Am I the only one who found his whole coda on American exceptionalism a little condescending? #ObamaSpeech
— Jonah Shepp (@JonahShepp) September 11, 2014
Good on Obama for not overhyping the immediate threat to America, unlike what some other hysterical people have done.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 11, 2014
#Iran not mentioned in the speech at all. This is as they clearly are talking about #ISIL & MAYBE coordinating to a certain extend in #Iraq.
— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) September 11, 2014
Unless I'm mistaken, Obama has not mentioned the Kurds. Don't expect open heavy arms transfers to the Peshmerga, IOW.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) September 11, 2014
I liked the "protect Kurdistan" strategy a lot better than the "open-ended campaign with no clear strategy" strategy.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) September 11, 2014
Newt Gingrich liked Obama’s speech a lot.
— HuffPost Media (@HuffPostMedia) September 11, 2014
OK, that’s ugly RT @tobyharnden Gingrich on CNN re Obama: "probably the most explicitly pro-American speech he's ever made”
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 11, 2014
Remember when John McCain stood largely alone calling for air strikes against Syria on the Senate floor?
— jennifer steinhauer (@jestei) September 11, 2014
What's unsaid: ask for authorization. Obama wants buy-in through congressional vote/funding, but not formal authorization
— Robert Costa (@costareports) September 11, 2014
Obama casting blame on Congress for refusing arms to non-extremist Syrian opposition? That’s bold. That was HIS policy.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 11, 2014
Once ISIS is out of the way, there is going to be some unpleasantness between Baghdad and Erbil over who controls the liberated territory.
— Michael Koplow (@mkoplow) September 11, 2014
George W Bush had a "broad coalition" for war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Didn't exactly work that well.
— Stephen Walt (@stephenWalt) September 11, 2014
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