Kathianne
12-17-2015, 04:25 PM
True dat:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/17/lyndon_b_obama_129051.html
By Richard Benedetto (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/richard_benedetto/)December 17, 2015
When it comes to offering progress reports on his war against ISIS, Barack Obama is beginning to sound like a previous wartime Democratic president. It is not a flattering comparison.
Over the past few weeks, Obama has issued several upbeat statements crafted to assure an uneasy American people that the fight against terror is going well, only to have the facts come back and bite him.
He is starting to develop a “credibility gap,” faced by Lyndon Baines Johnson during the Vietnam War. LBJ and his commanders kept telling the nation that the war was going well when it really was not.
“We are pleased with the results we are getting,” Johnson said in an impassioned November 1967 press conference. “We are inflicting greater losses than we are taking.”
Johnson added that it was “an encouraging sign” that decreasing numbers of Vietnamese were living under Communist control. “Overall, we’re making progress,” he added. “We’re satisfied with that progress.”
Sound familiar? It was only last month that Obama told us that ISIS was “contained” in Iraq and Syria. Then came the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. A day later, while in Turkey for the 2015 G-20 Summit, Obama called the carnage “a terrible and sickening setback” in the terror fight. But he quickly added that “we can’t lose sight that there has been progress.”
In a litany remarkably reminiscent of rhetoric that came out of the Johnson administration during Vietnam, Obama went on to optimistically talk about increased airstrikes, limited ISIS territorial gains in Iraq and Syria and better intelligence sharing, analysis and cooperation among allies in the fight.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/17/lyndon_b_obama_129051.html
By Richard Benedetto (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/richard_benedetto/)December 17, 2015
When it comes to offering progress reports on his war against ISIS, Barack Obama is beginning to sound like a previous wartime Democratic president. It is not a flattering comparison.
Over the past few weeks, Obama has issued several upbeat statements crafted to assure an uneasy American people that the fight against terror is going well, only to have the facts come back and bite him.
He is starting to develop a “credibility gap,” faced by Lyndon Baines Johnson during the Vietnam War. LBJ and his commanders kept telling the nation that the war was going well when it really was not.
“We are pleased with the results we are getting,” Johnson said in an impassioned November 1967 press conference. “We are inflicting greater losses than we are taking.”
Johnson added that it was “an encouraging sign” that decreasing numbers of Vietnamese were living under Communist control. “Overall, we’re making progress,” he added. “We’re satisfied with that progress.”
Sound familiar? It was only last month that Obama told us that ISIS was “contained” in Iraq and Syria. Then came the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. A day later, while in Turkey for the 2015 G-20 Summit, Obama called the carnage “a terrible and sickening setback” in the terror fight. But he quickly added that “we can’t lose sight that there has been progress.”
In a litany remarkably reminiscent of rhetoric that came out of the Johnson administration during Vietnam, Obama went on to optimistically talk about increased airstrikes, limited ISIS territorial gains in Iraq and Syria and better intelligence sharing, analysis and cooperation among allies in the fight.
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