The Turkish border is an open gateway for Islamic State (ISIS) fighters to pour through in order to continue growing the numbers of the Islamic terror organization in Syria and Iran.
Up to now, Obama has been dismissive of ISIS, calling them a JV team and allowing only occasional bombing raids against them in order to provide the pretense that he is anxiously engaged in stamping out this world threat.
Many believe that Obama is covertly rooting for and propping up ISIS as a way to depose Bashar al Assad, leader of Syria, rather than to become more involved militarily in that effort.
But with the suicide bombings and murders carried out by ISIS suicide bombers a couple of weeks ago, coupled with the embarrassing actions of Russia that showed a commitment to destroy ISIS and the military wherewithal to do just that, Obama is finally waking up to the fact that his narrative is becoming irrelevant regarding the terrorist organization.
Now he is taking action, and by that I mean that he is talking tough, which is about as committed as he gets in defending the U.S. citizenry.
Obama takes action, page 2
Rod J Nielson obviously we disagree. Some points to consider.
1. The Fed Reserve has started raising interest rates and more are expected. Why? Because we are nearing full employment and wages are starting to increase.
2. The average household wealth of Americans hit a record last month
3. As did the number of job openings.
4. As for good manufacturing jobs we have lost: our manufacturing output has increased. Why? Technology now lets us produce more with fewer people. The answer is not to blame China and NAFTA, but to better educate and retrain the workforce. It is also interesting to note that many companies are starting to leave China because wages are rising.
5. As for Reagan, when he took office the unemployment rate was about 5.5 percent. That’s what it was when he left. Obama will win contest. It should be noted that when things started going south for Reagan, he created jobs the old fashioned way: massive government spending in form of tax cuts that later had to be reversed and unparalleled spending on defense. Such deficit spending would not pass muster in today’s Congress. I should also point out that Reagan had a cooperative Democrat to work with as opposed to a party that said it would not cooperate from beginning. Obama has also had to contend with a China slowdown, Europe slowdown, Greece and Brexit, all weighing heavily on world economy.
Having said all this there are some weak spots in economy, particularly income distribution and too many unskilled workers. One thing I am sure off: should Trump be elected the unemployment figure will be higher than when he took office.
How wrong you were! haha Our economy is greatly expanding and jobs are booming under President Trump.