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Free world has no leader in White House
Bambi Sheleg
Published: 01.07.15, 20:16
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1. Well Written !!!!!!
Ariel ,   São Paulo - Brazil   (07.01.15)
2. just u wait
mike north ,   karmiel israel   (07.01.15)
ISIS must just get near to Israel's border and the world will see how the top anti-terrorist unit will deal with them. let the show begin....
3. Splendid Isolationism
Michael ,   Haifa   (07.02.15)
Sheleg believes that the USA owes her, as a "denier of freedom for another people", protective status. The USA will only act to protect its own interests at times of its own choosing.
4. Mr Sotero is a member of the cult..
Beary White ,   Norway   (07.02.15)
..and has no interest in taking down ISIS. The civilized world must admit the man in the colored house is just initiating enough force to save his reputation...he has no interest in stopping Islamic terror..as he said: "America is not Christian any longer.."
5. A powerful and 100% accurate analysis.
tiki ,   belgium   (07.02.15)
Problem? We can't change it! As long as Obama & EU prefer to believe that "Palestine" is the answer to the conflicts in the ME and labelling Israeli produce more important than labelling Iran a terror sponsor, Abbas a terrorist and Hamas/Hezbollah terror organisations, the entire world is in danger.
6. Khemeur Rouge and Rwanda Worse.
Zika   (07.02.15)
The EightHundred Thousand killed in Rwanda in a Hundred days while Clintons USA did nothing and the Kheumer Rouge Two Million killed USA and China stood by -the USSR backend North Vietnamese lost lives 'Freeing' Cambodia from the Kheumer Rouge .
7. What a load of rubbish
Shachar ,   Eilat   (07.02.15)
No American presidents ever worried about foreign slaughters, many of them even secretly aided them. Bush Snr watched Saddam slaughter Shia's, pushed the Kurds to revolt and then sat back and watched them being slaughtered. American interests are there only interest, and all sorts of weird Middle-easterners are not interesting
8. It is obvious who Obama is working for...
Chaim ,   Israel   (07.02.15)
It isn't America, the Free World, Israel or any other long standing American ally...
9. Who has been guilty of dragging their feet, Sheleg?
Cameron ,   USA   (07.02.15)
Only right the burden of blood and treasure has shifted to rest upon Israeli & Arab shoulders. Your region, your responsibility.
10. Sheleg delusionally ignores REALITY
spyguy ,   seattle usa   (07.03.15)
I realize that it is a knee-jerk reaction in Israel to blame Obama for everything, BUT the REALITY is Obama has been illegally fighting against ISIS for almost a year because the REPUBLICAN congress refuses to even discuss declaring war on ISIS. Under the US Constitution, ONLY the congress can authorize the use of force against another country. The POTUS can NOT start wars, only congress. What would Sheleg want Obama to do when he has no authority to do anything and no one else on earth is willing to provide cannon fodder for any fight, especially when Saudi Arabia is funding ISIS. The POTUS is NOT king of the earth, so he can not simply "order" others to go fight ISIS and every country on earth is well aware that putting their troops on the ground will just get them killed and will cause major political problems at home. No citizens of any country, including the USA, are willing to go to war in the middle of a desert wasteland. Every country is well aware of the "rewards" the USA got from fighting in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq and have zero desire to jump into a similar tar pit. If Sheleg wants a war, she is going to have to lead it.
11. USA Is NOT World's Police Force
emanon ,   USA   (07.03.15)
The countries where ISIL grew up should have taken action against the organization BEFORE it put down such solid roots. In asking the USA to deal with it, you are placing the USA in a Lose / Lose situation: if we do deal with the militants, we are then feed the "aggressive colonial power" stereotype and if we do not do anything, the USA is a "tool of the Islamic Republic". We will defend ourselves within our own borders and the powers outside the USA need to act on their own behalf.
12. Spyguy...You know full well Obama could start a war.
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (07.03.15)
The President can and has started wars...undeclared. Obama ran his whole campaign on getting us out of Iraq...and out of any conflicts. Obama doesn't believe in war. He uses missile strikes instead. He won't be putting anymore boots on the ground. He's a blatant pacifist. And being a pacifist means you get your head handed to you when the bully comes a knockin at you door.
13. Historic mistake
Moshe ,   Israel   (07.03.15)
U.S did not entered the war against Germany due to the Pearl Harbor attack, but because a few days later the Nazi regime declared war on America. It was the second Hitler's disastrous blunder, after the invasion of Soviet Union. This act proved him at last that the German army and its allies were not invincible.
14. Bravo...
Walid ,   Spain   (07.03.15)
Bravo, I agree with you 100%.Never in the history of the US have we ever seen such a weak, incompetent and cowardly president. He has been outplayed by Assad, Iran, ISIS and not to mention Putin. American credibility is down to zero and its allies are now scrambling to find an alternative. The Middle East is in chaos and anarchy and the Islamic world has become synonym with Jihad and terror, something Islam was never meant to be. It is time for Israel and the moderate Arabs to make peace and take ISIS as well as Iran by the horns before they destroy the whole region.
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